Reorder Planes ?

[MrFish]

Anyone know if there is a way to reorder the custom planes in the plane manager.  Don't want to reorder the factory planes but my machinists OCD would like to be able to have my Ops planes in order ?

 

[So not a Guru]

7 hours ago, MrFish said:

Anyone know if there is a way to reorder the custom planes in the plane manager.  Don't want to reorder the factory planes but my machinists OCD would like to be able to have my Ops planes in order ?

 

I don't believe that is possible.

[neurosis]

I've been asking for this for years. 

Seemed like the reason they haven't done anything about it has been explained but it's been so long ago I can't remember what that was.

[Brad St.]

I know you can right click in the window and select "reset sort" but it will put it to the following:

Reset sort

Returns the planes grid column sorting to the default sorting.

[StevenM]

This drives me absolutely nuts as well. Wish there was a way to do it.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

Levels should have folders/groups, and planes should have more flexibility to organization. Sucks adding a few in, or working on a big file that has no semblance of order in the planes manager. I often just sort by offset number to get all the used ones near the bottom. It's less than a band-aid solution, IMO

[OVodov]

2 hours ago, SuperHoneyBadger said:

Levels should have folders/groups, and planes should have more flexibility to organization. Sucks adding a few in, or working on a big file that has no semblance of order in the planes manager. I often just sort by offset number to get all the used ones near the bottom. It's less than a band-aid solution, IMO

Talk to CrazyMillMan about folders in levels. He asks for them for how long? 7 years?

We will get changes from TRIM to DYNAMIC TRIM and back 3 more times and then maybe (not promises) folders.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

2 hours ago, OVodov said:

Talk to CrazyMillMan about folders in levels. He asks for them for how long? 7 years?

Yea. If the big guns' request falls on deaf ears, you're right, we'll get Dynamic Delete first...

[volitan71]

5 hours ago, SuperHoneyBadger said:

Levels should have folders/groups, and planes should have more flexibility to organization. Sucks adding a few in, or working on a big file that has no semblance of order in the planes manager. I often just sort by offset number to get all the used ones near the bottom. It's less than a band-aid solution, IMO

Levels with groups! Never thought of that, that would be very very cool.

[Jobnt]

Levels should also have an option to show contents when active and hide it when inactive. This so you can arrow-key through the levels and find what geometry you're looking for, just like the Ops Manager has the option to turn on toolpaths for the selected operation so you can arrow-key through that and see toolpaths turn on and off. Makes finding stuff easier.

[Jake L]

15 hours ago, Jobnt said:

Levels should also have an option to show contents when active and hide it when inactive. This so you can arrow-key through the levels and find what geometry you're looking for, just like the Ops Manager has the option to turn on toolpaths for the selected operation so you can arrow-key through that and see toolpaths turn on and off. Makes finding stuff easier.

If you go into the levels manager, in the settings, and check on "Only active level is visible" and "Arrow keys set active level" and leave everything else unchecked, I think you can accomplish what you're looking for?

[NateP17]

You could add a prefix that will order them the way you want.

For example

"1-a-(name)"

"1-b-(name)"

"2-a-(name)"

then you can resort by name

[Jobnt]

1 hour ago, Jake L said:

If you go into the levels manager, in the settings, and check on "Only active level is visible" and "Arrow keys set active level" and leave everything else unchecked, I think you can accomplish what you're looking for?

It's, it's... it's beautiful!

#CriesALittleTearOfJoy

[cruzila]

Now, can we have levels visible but NOT selectable?? Or is that just too much?

:hijack off:

[Newbeeee™]

10 minutes ago, cruzila said:

Now, can we have levels visible but NOT selectable?? Or is that just too much?

:hijack off:

Back in the day (X7) there was another enhancement request high up the pole, for making levels similar to Autocad - ie you can lock them with no edit, to stop accidental moving or deletion....

[Jobnt]

30 minutes ago, cruzila said:

Now, can we have levels visible but NOT selectable?? Or is that just too much?

:hijack off:

That would be pretty awesome. Especially if you could set the transparency on a level-by-level basis.

[OVodov]

14 minutes ago, Jobnt said:

That would be pretty awesome. Especially if you could set the transparency on a level-by-level basis.

+1

And set color for each level. I loved it in CorelDraw.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

1 hour ago, cruzila said:

Now, can we have levels visible but NOT selectable?? Or is that just too much?

Construction Levels? Everyone always wants another CAD feature around here, eh?

[OVodov]

16 hours ago, SuperHoneyBadger said:

Construction Levels? Everyone always wants another CAD feature around here, eh?

Everyone wants real CAD inside Mastercam.

[Jobnt]

51 minutes ago, OVodov said:

Everyone wants real CAD inside Mastercam.

Why not? Take some of the market away from Solidworks. 

BTW, if you look at Gibbscam's solid modeling and wireframe geometry, you would run away screaming like Cameron Diez  at the end of Very Bad Things. 

[neurosis]

Wouldn't it be nice if MC had a decent sketcher for solid modeling?   

 

[Jobnt]

1 minute ago, neurosis said:

Wouldn't it be nice if MC had a decent sketcher for solid modeling?   

 

Go try Gibbscam, you'll NEVER complain about Mastercam's modeling again. Ever. 

[neurosis]

1 minute ago, Jobnt said:

Go try Gibbscam, you'll NEVER complain about Mastercam's modeling again. Ever. 

I have.  lol.

I use TopSolid to do all of my modeling.  It's not quite as robust as SolidWorks but it's really nice.  I'd rather do all of my programming and modeling in the same system. 

If I had it my way, we'd just use TopSolid for everything.

[cncappsjames]

On 6/28/2023 at 12:33 PM, SuperHoneyBadger said:

On 6/29/2023 at 6:05 AM, NateP17 said:

You could add a prefix that will order them the way you want.

For example

"1-a-(name)"

"1-b-(name)"

"2-a-(name)"

then you can resort by name

 

That is what I do. Except..

05-...

15-...

23-...

35-...

That way I can add 4 before and 5 after and I don't have to renumber a bunch in case I miss something. 

[#Rekd™]

On 6/30/2023 at 9:26 AM, neurosis said:

Wouldn't it be nice if MC had a decent sketcher for solid modeling?

Mastercam is excellent for modeling.