merging NCI files

[Mike Harrington from Macdac Eng.]

Just a quick question. Im using the latest version of MC8. I have a bunch of tool paths some imported, translated some mirrored etc etc.... Now I remember is V7 all you had to do to merge tool paths was edit the NCI and select merge. Obviously its not the case in V8. So what I did was import the NCI file I wanted in the ops manager and tried to post a transformed toolpath along with a merged toolpath at the same time... No dice... The only work around I found was to create a new group merge the transformed tool path in the new group along with the merged tool path and presto magic we have the toolpath im looking for. That worked... is it just me or am I missing something here?

[CycleTimeCharles]

You can still use EDIT NCI in V8. It is now a chook called EDITNCI

[Mike Harrington from Macdac Eng.]

Thanks so much! That worked like a charm

[Luther_Heggs]

You can also just import the nci into the operation manager via a right mouse option "Import NCI". It comes in as a "Merged NCI" operation.

[Mike Harrington from Macdac Eng.]

Yes Luther.. That what I did in the begining... But for whatever reason it would not allow me to post both a transformed tool path and a merged tool path unless I made a new group.. Nontheless I got it to run.. Thank you all for the help