CIMCO or Mastercam Editor

[Tim Sureline]

I am looking for a way to strip all numbers, G & M code from my program's and leave just only text between the  parenthesis  ex.  ( OP 1  )  so I can print these up and give them to Setup for help. The last place I worked had a Dos based program that did this. Is there an option in either the CIMCO or Mastercam editor that will do this ?

[AHarrison1]

I am only aware of removing line #'s

[Aaron Eberhard]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but have you looked into setup sheets?

[Tim Sureline]

Yes we have set up sheets this would be just a step by step instruction that they could pre read to see what each tool is doing and being that I have typed it into Mastercam program and would look to save the step of having to re type it out 

 

Here is an example of what I would create but with programs with any surfacing or Dynamic functions it would be time consuming to strip manually

 

O3091(2309_1)
( XXXXXXXXXXX)
( UNPROVEN PROGRAM )
( FIRST OPERATION )
( DATE 05-18-21 TPS )
(MCX FILE - M:\XXXXXXXXX\XXXXXXXX\XXXXXXXXX\ENGINEERING\XXXXXXX.MCAM)
(NC FILE - M:\XXXXXXXX\XXXXXXX\XXXXXXXXX\PROGRAMS\XXX.NC)
(MATERIAL - .750" x .750" x 3.200" 6061-T6 ALUMINUM)
(USE KURT VISE WITH 1.500" THICK PARALLELS RUN 3 PARTS IN G54)
(T3|.1875 DIA. 3FL END MILL |H3|D3|)
(T5|.125 DIA 3 FLT FLAT ENDMILL .500 LOC|H5|D5|)
(T6|.093 DIA 3FLT FLAT ENDMILL .500 LOC|H6|D6|)
(T7|.047 BALL ENDMILL|H7|)

(T3|.1875 DIA. 3FL END MILL |H3|D3|)
(FINISH MILL TOP OF PART .725 THICK)
(FINISH MILL .450 X .130 DP COBORE 3 PLS)
(ROUGH OUTSIDE OF KNOB .410 DP 3 PLS)
(ROUGH MILL TOP OF EAR)
(ESTABLISH X0 FOR OP2 .550 DP)

(T5|.125 DIA 3 FLT FLAT ENDMILL .500 LOC|H5|D5|)
(FINISH MILL .260 X .170 DP COBORE 3 PLS)

(T6|.093 DIA 3FLT FLAT ENDMILL .500 LOC|H6|D6|)
(ROUGH MILL .128 DIA HOLE .340 DP 3 PLS)
(FINISH MILL .128 DIA HOLE .340 DP 3 PLS)
(ROUGH MILL OUTSIDE PROFILE .408 DP 3 PLS)
(FINISH MILL OUTSIDE PROFILE .408 DP 3 PLS)
(FINISH MILL PROFILE ABOVE EAR .030 DP 3 PLS)

(T7|.047 BALL ENDMILL|H7|)
(FINISH BALL MILL TOP OF EAR 3 PLS)

 

[So not a Guru]

I would think that a separate setup sheet, that only output the tools & comments, would be your best bet. The 1st 8 lines of can be set with the general information dialog and the remaining info thru active reports.

[AHarrison1]

We don't rely on setup sheets all that much. Most of the info i need to pass on to the operator will be in the program itself, i.e.

(pick up back left, Z 0 is top -0.02")

My most common instructions/info I have saved in a word document from where I can copy/paste into the program.

[pullo]

What I would do is make the post save all the comments into a separate file automatically every time you post out . I actually did something like that many many years ago but stopped using it. Now I just empty the directory of these files once a year...

If you want I can post these few lines here from my post ...

Gracjan

.... so to answer your primary question : neither.

Grracjan

[Tim Sureline]

Pullo that would be great Thanks

 

[pullo]

ill try to answer you today.

Gracjan