Posting Issue

[Müřlıń®]

Made mistake yesterday posting code to the machine.

 

I have files with multiple tool groups.  Each tool group has a unique NCI Name. 

 

Sometimes I will copy and paste ops from one tool group to the next.

 

If I forget to change the NCI name as the rest of the tool group,  when I post the code of that group Mastercam will prompt me if I want to post all right?

 

Well this is telling me that all of the ops in that tool group are not the same name.

 

So I select that tool group and right click and change all the NC names right?

 

Easy,,,,

 

What happens when you select ALL the tool groups and post??

 

What happened to the prompt then??

 

There is none...Mastercam just grabs all the toolpaths with the same NCI name and lumps them all together into a file and doesn't say a word.

 

This is VERY BAD and can cause the splitting of Atoms among other things....FUBAR...the only way you can catch a mistake like this is Vericut...

 

This is a very easy mistake to make and should NEVER be allowed to happen...

 

The NCI name needs to bind with the tool group NOT with the OP!!!

 

Whenever you copy paste an op from one tool group to another....the NCI name should automatically be renamed

to what the NCI's in current toolgroup are...

 

Is there a way to make this happen at present?

[jlw™]

I have had this very thought and made this mistake myself. Fortunately when running the OP has not set up the tool and it changed to an empty pocket and nothing happened.

[Müřlıń®]

I have had this very thought and made this mistake myself. Fortunately when running the OP has not set up the tool and it changed to an empty pocket and nothing happened.

HEH...I was not so fortunate...

 

at least the machine didnt crash and I only srapped a $200 part....

[Colin Gilchrist]

Is your NCI file name the same as the group name they get copied into?

 

It would be easy to setup a warning in the post to catch this, warn you, and stop the posting process.

[gcode]

I have my post dialog set the "ask"

That way it will post the main file then ask me to approve a 2nd file

and I'll know something is wrong.

If ask is off, it will just post two files and I'll never know there is a tool path

missing from the main file till I find out the hard way

[Müřlıń®]

Is your NCI file name the same as the group name they get copied into?

 

It would be easy to setup a warning in the post to catch this, warn you, and stop the posting process.

no it isn't...I am using the tool group name to characterize what the tool group does...

[gcode]

Have you tried going to

System Config/Toolpath Manger/NC File Name  and checking "Toolpath's Group Name"

 

I have no idea if this would work or no

I've always let this field at default settings

[Müřlıń®]

I have my post dialog set the "ask"

That way it will post the main file then ask me to approve a 2nd file

and I'll know something is wrong.

If ask is off, it will just post two files and I'll never know there is a tool path

missing from the main file till I find out the hard way

well on mine I had 4 tool groups...A,B,C &D.

 

There were NCI's in group D that had the same name as the ops in group B because I copied and pasted the ops.

Then when I posted the programs....it grabbed the ops out of D and added them to group B when it posted the 4 programs..

So if it is set to ask it won't do this without asking first???

[Müřlıń®]

Have you tried going to

System Config/Toolpath Manger/NC File Name  and checking "Toolpath's Group Name"

 

I have no idea if this would work or no

I've always let this field at default settings

No I did not know about this...but it seems it might still do the same thing as before just give the toolpath different names.

 

The only sure fire way I can tell to avoid this is to never select all and post...post one group at a time.

That takes more time but it will save errors like this...