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On 3/23/2021 at 9:24 PM, Thee Byte™ said:

I see you added multiple instances as well, that's so useful.

The U.I. looks amazing, I'm still stuck with 90's graphics with my winfotms. 😂

Thanks!

Multiple instances was the driving force behind this add-in, as everything else can be done in Mastercam OOTB.  I didn't like programing HMC's TOP-FRONT and wanted a quick way to create any number of views from an existing view and one of it's axes.

I actually went a bit crazy the past few evenings reworking the UI to reduce clicks and adding a view name template so the resulting views' names can be customized.

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The View Names Template is a good improvement.

The User who suggested this improvement to me,

also had an idea the ability to automatically rename the existing transformation Degree number in the name to the new tranformation #;

 

 

For example,   

 

 

Original Planes Name 1 -> "Custom User Plane a0." or "Custom User Plane X0."

The user typed 45.

Copied and transformed Planes Name 2 -> "Custom User Plane a45." or "Custom User Plane X45."

 

The add-in should probably take the old rotation angle if there was one,

and add the two angles together,  then change the x or a # to the result of the equation

So if the user had a plane with the name x45 in it and the user entered another 45 degrees,

the new planes name would be x90

 

The Topic from Mastercam.com is here if you care to look.

https://forum.mastercam.com/Topic16514.aspx

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On 3/27/2021 at 4:34 AM, Thee Byte™ said:

The View Names Template is a good improvement.

The User who suggested this improvement to me,

also had an idea the ability to automatically rename the existing transformation Degree number in the name to the new tranformation #;

 

 

For example,   

 

 

Original Planes Name 1 -> "Custom User Plane a0." or "Custom User Plane X0."

The user typed 45.

Copied and transformed Planes Name 2 -> "Custom User Plane a45." or "Custom User Plane X45."

 

The add-in should probably take the old rotation angle if there was one,

and add the two angles together,  then change the x or a # to the result of the equation

So if the user had a plane with the name x45 in it and the user entered another 45 degrees,

the new planes name would be x90

 

The Topic from Mastercam.com is here if you care to look.

https://forum.mastercam.com/Topic16514.aspx

That’s an interesting idea, but I’m not hot on it.

 Are you going to implement it?

  

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39 minutes ago, Zaffin_D said:

That’s an interesting idea, but I’m not hot on it.

 Are you going to implement it?

  

Yes, I dealt with the replacing the string in the rotation in the version I showed in the video, I just haven't gotten around to doing the arithmetic yet.

The option to add the results together is outside the scope of the op's request anyway, they just wanted to replace the found a.0 with a.90 or whatever the rotation was, which was fairly trivial..

 

I am planning to use something like this for programming, but I need it to copy and rotate the geometry to a new level and the plane, because I use an entry level license for 3 + 2 ops and setting all the ops up in top Cview and Tview with a rotated WCS can be error prone without the add-ins.

Here is an example of a light version I did with a csharp script a while ago.

 

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