Hosed myself on WCS plane, hopefully for the last time

[Newbeeee™]

With the greatest respect to everyone, I personally think this is being over thought.

X+, and 1x click...

[Guest]

Just needs darkmode ^ 

 

[Newbeeee™]

1 minute ago, byte said:

Just needs darkmode ^ 

 

You boys

Coolest gig in the world and you don't 'gram wearing sunglasses?

 

[Tim Johnson]

What I do on every operation is just click through every segment (unless it's turned off and I want it off) and confirm that's what I want. In this case when I get to the Planes (WCS) it's almost always correct but it only takes a couple seconds for confirmation. If it's not, I fix it and go on my merry way.

[nperry]

1 hour ago, byte said:

Here you go.

propertyManager-AddIn Mc2018 + Mc2020 + Mc2021.zip

@nperry

That's slick. Thank you.

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, nperry said:

That's slick. Thank you.

You are welcome.

[So not a Guru]

3 hours ago, Newbeeee™ said:

With the greatest respect to everyone, I personally think this is being over thought.

X+, and 1x click...

My company doesn't want to purchase maintenance for X+. A shame, because I would love to support Günther.

Instead I learned how to make Active Reports do what I need, for setup sheets.

[Guest]

17 minutes ago, So not a Guru said:

My company doesn't want to purchase maintenance for X+. A shame, because I would love to support Günther.

Instead I learned how to make Active Reports do what I need, for setup sheets.

Quite the accomplishment, active reports is quite complicated, I avoid it for that reason.

It is a very good api, for making setup sheets.

[So not a Guru]

Just now, byte said:

active reports is quite complicated

You ain't lyin'!

[Newbeeee™]

Can it save in MSWord .doc format yet?

[So not a Guru]

5 minutes ago, Newbeeee™ said:

Can it save in MSWord .doc format yet?

I don't know, I set it up as PDF format, as that is what we've always used for setup sheets here.

[JParis]

9 minutes ago, Newbeeee™ said:

Can it save in MSWord .doc format yet?

No

[htm01]

44 minutes ago, So not a Guru said:

My company doesn't want to purchase maintenance for X+. A shame, because I would love to support Günther.

Instead I learned how to make Active Reports do what I need, for setup sheets.

don't understand , it's pennies in the long run, how many hours did you spend to get active reports compared to 5 minutes to set up X+

[JParis]

2 minutes ago, htm01 said:

don't understand , it's pennies in the long run, how many hours did you spend to get active reports compared to 5 minutes to set up X+

I do.

You already pay for software that can get what you need.  Why should a company buy something 3rd party that is ultimately a luxury and not a need?

I know it's short money in the big picture but bean counters prefer a million little pictures.

 

Myself I don't really dabble in any of the 3rd party items, Verisurf is the exception to that rule. Though now after time Mastercam has provided the tools I used and that's likely to fall away.

Too many times over the years I have seen too many 3rd parties offer something then for whatever reason, fall off leaving people who relied on them in the lurch. As such, I avoid them.

[So not a Guru]

1 minute ago, htm01 said:

don't understand , it's pennies in the long run, how many hours did you spend to get active reports compared to 5 minutes to set up X+

You are preaching to the choir my friend.

[crazy^millman]

1 hour ago, Newbeeee™ said:

Can it save in MSWord .doc format yet?

RFT that is opened by Word and then you can treat it as a .doc or .docx file and do whatever you want with it. 

[Newbeeee™]

39 minutes ago, crazy^millman said:

RFT that is opened by Word and then you can treat it as a .doc or .docx file and do whatever you want with it. 

Buuuutttttt formatting was lost.

.doc was an enhancement request back in X9 days...

[nperry]

1 hour ago, htm01 said:

don't understand , it's pennies in the long run, how many hours did you spend to get active reports compared to 5 minutes to set up X+

It took a solid 5 or 6 hours for me to get into a groove with Active Reports. There's still a lot of nooks and crannies to explore, sure, but what I really love about it is that your imagination is pretty much the limit for what you want to put on your setup sheets, or how you want to configure them. 

Also, it took about an hour or two of post work, but I think I've got it...

 

 

[Guest]

2 hours ago, JParis said:

2 hours ago, Newbeeee™ said:

Can it save in MSWord .doc format yet?

No

Sure you could, there is a c# scripting api inside active reports than can talk to Microsoft.interop for word

2 hours ago, JParis said:

Too many times over the years I have seen too many 3rd parties offer something then for whatever reason, fall off leaving people who relied on them in the lurch. As such, I avoid them.

The reason I always provide source code, so end users could always download and recompile for new versions, most of what I make is just to show what could be done/ what I would like to see in the software.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, htm01 said:

don't understand , it's pennies in the long run, how many hours did you spend to get active reports compared to 5 minutes to set up X+

Proprietary software is always better than 3rd party, because it's free, which means more $

I mean, we aren't talking vericut here

[JParis]

10 minutes ago, byte said:

The reason I always provide source code, so end users could always download and recompile for new versions, most of what I make is just to show what could be done/ what I would like to see in the software.

We have people coming in that can't draw a line...they're gonna recomplie some code?  

From a support standpoint, having done it for 7 years, the average user just needs something that works. Anything beyond point & click is beyond the "average" user.

And that's not to put down anything you and others have offered....

[Guest]

Just now, JParis said:

We have people coming in that can't draw a line...they're gonna recomplie some code?  

From a support standpoint, having done it for 7 years, the average user just needs something that works

In a well implemented chook

Type the new path to the mastercam SDK after the installer has run.

Build -> Rebuild Solution

 

jm2cw

[JParis]

Just now, byte said:

In a well implemented chook

Type the new path to the mastercam SDK after the installer has run.

Build -> Rebuild Solution

 

jm2cw

Ever had to field a tech question from a user that couldn't figure out where the icon to launch Mastercam went?

[Guest]

Just now, JParis said:

Ever had to field a tech question from a user that couldn't figure out where the icon to launch Mastercam went?

No...

[JParis]

Just now, byte said:

No...

They are out there Peter....believe me, what you can do is awesome...