vb setupsheet

[Bruce Caulley]

I have had a look at the vb setup sheet that is on the ftp. It appears to be trying to add an emf file to a text box but this is not working. Anyone know how to fix this?

 

Bruce

[Mick from CNC Software Inc.]

Bruce,

 

I'm not sure what script this is and I can't seem to access the ftp to get it, I'll try again later.

[John T.]

I wrote that script.

 

The EMF file is the skeletonized graphic of the part that is on your screen when you run the setup sheet script. It was originally written to to write this file to a network drive, but I have since changed that to C:/temp, as people were getting other folks graphic! we have several mastercam seats here.

 

This would be a good time to mention there is a major bug in that if your program has any Transform operations in it, running the script will crash your mastercam. There is supposed to be a patch avaible (Mick? you remember what it was?), but the alternative is to save your program, delete the transform operations, then run the script.

 

John

[John T.]

Forgot to mention a couple of things...I think the script on the FTP does not have the update that writes the graphic to C:/temp.

 

And the reason the graphic is being written to the text box is that I used the text boxes to format the sheet layout. Makes it a whole lot easier!

 

John

[Bruce Caulley]

Thanks john, I will have another go at it soon.

 

Bruce

[Mick from CNC Software Inc.]

Bruce,

 

Do this, open the script in the VBScript editor, scroll down to line 386 or so and change the following line of code:

 

from this:

code:

---

graphic="J:datatetest.emf"

---

to this:

code:

---

graphic= Replace(LCase(GetCurrentFileName), ".mc9", ".emf")

---

and that should fix the image issue. It will create an image of the part in the same location as the drawing.

 

NOTE: You will need to make sure the current drawing has been saved (has a file name).

[cadcam]

Mick, I have replaced the old one with your updated as you asked.

[Bruce Caulley]

That worked great. The background in the screen shot came out black. I thought the emf generated a white back ground????

 

Bruce

[John T.]

It should have a white background. Don't know why yours doesn't??

[Rekd™]

Different issue, but still..

 

quote:

---

code:

---

Replace(LCase(GetCurrentFileName), ".mc9", ".emf")

---

---

'Rekd teh palm to forehead.. "DOH!"

 

(thanks Mick!)

[mross]

the graphics thingy in mine was OK, still crashes

 

any other known issues?

[Mick from CNC Software Inc.]

Mark,

 

Were does the script crash and with what message?

[somename75]

It runs well for me, but I have to change my backround color to white prior to running it or else all black graphics. I also seem to have an issue of it repeating tool numbers for some reason, I get 2 or 3 copies of certian tools, and then none of the others, right now I can only get 2 tools' info in the sheet. Anyone else having an issue like this? I am very vb ignorant, but very much appreaciate you guys creating tools like this for the rest of us.

 

 

Thanks again

[TheDamien]

Hey this might be a bit off-topic in this post, but i'm having an issue with setup sheets.

 

Right now i'm using vbscript to make an excel setup sheet, and i'm trying to group up the differnet groups and all the operations inside of those groups.. I can get all the operations and all that, but how do you figure out what operation goes to what group?

 

All i've seen is people list out all the tools/operations, but they don't sort them out by group or anything of the sort..

 

I need a way to sort the operations in each group.

 

Group 1:

Operation 1 = Tool 1

Operation 2 = Tool 2

 

Group 2:

Operation 1 = Tool 2

Operation 2 = Tool 1

 

When you pull the data from mastercam, it would just be like

 

Operation 1 = Tool 1

Operation 2 = Tool 2

Operation 3 = Tool 2

Operation 4 = Tool 1

 

How can I make it sort that to tell me which group they belong to?

 

I just don't think it is possible, please someone proove me wrong!!

[Hardmill]

Check your other post. I have 1 solution for you.

 

 

PEACE

[Hardmill]

Damien check Here

 

 

PEACE

[TheDamien]

Could you explain that in a bit more detail for me? I'm not a Mastercam user really, just a programmer that got "hired" to write a script for my father. I have it all worked out except this last little problem... He says he understands that, but he hasn't helped me with it yet so... Could you explain in a bit more detail ?

[Bullines]

I know how to create groups (thanks to Mick and Bill ) but I don't see a way to retrieve group info.

[mross]

it crashes right after asking me what mat'l.

 

and the alarm is a memory error:

"The instruction at "0x7800fa97" referenced memory at "0x00000057". The memory could not be "read".

 

"Click OK to terminate, blah blah blah"

 

any ideas?

Thx

[Mick from CNC Software Inc.]

Mark,

 

What version of Mastercam are you using?

 

What is the version of the editor and chook (go the the editors help-about menu)?

[crazy^millman]

TheDamien the way this probelm was explained to me was to use an array for the operation ID's. I am not fully sure how that was to help but Bulliness was the person that pointed me in this direction when I was making my attmept at a set-up sheet.

[Bullines]

I suggested a array purely as a container to hold data for various operations. Individual variables for each group could've been used but that would've been messy. A dictionary object or a brand new class could've been used, which could've been slicker, but would've been more involved (drawing attantion away from the way to retreive operation data, which was the main topic of the thread). But all of that doesn't have anything to do with op group info, anyway.

 

Like I said in my post above, I can't see a way in the documentation to extract operation group(s) info.

[TheDamien]

Well an array of operation ID's won't do the trick. There isn't (at least i'm not aware of) any way to check which group an operation belongs to.

 

My current script works perfect, but I just can't tell which group an operation belongs to. The method that Hardmill has posted well, I don't personally know enough about Mastercam to take any useful knowledge from. PLUS I don't have Mastercam on my home computer.. So making a script for for it is quite the task .

 

Ron, I am Marks son. I am making this script for you guys. (Just in case you didn't know.)

[Bullines]

Hardmill is refering to this; our commercial setup sheet offering.

[crazy^millman]

Yeah I knew was just throwing ideas out there for you as well as others.