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pull hole diameter issue

Right now, in the hardware tokens, the drill diameter for pulls is hard-coded to '5'.  There is a global variable for that setting as well:  "Handle Hole Diameter".  This value is also set to '5', but of course there's no link there if the pulls' tokens are hard-coded.

We have a drill head full of brad tip 5mm bits, which are fine in most cases.  But we don't want to drill pulls with just any old 5mm brad tip bit.  We want to use a 5mm V-tip for those.  There's only one way I know to ENSURE that the V-tip is the bit that will drop for that operation:  lie about the diameter.

If I add a 5mm V-tip bit to the tool file, and call the bit 4.5mm in diameter, then set the G!Handle_Hole_Diameter to 4.5 instead of 5, I get 5mm pull holes drilled with a V-tip bit that don't blow out the face of my doors and drawer fronts.

As part of the next library update, could y'all please edit the pull machine tokens to =G!Handle_Hole_Diameter ?  That's what I'm about to do on my end now, and I'd hope on our next library upgrade to see it added.  THANKS!

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