file merging

[foolsh]

does anybody knows how to merge files using the postprocessor?

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish?

[jkilby]

When merging one file to another is there a way to get the tool operation to merge with the file?

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

No Merging only brings in geometry.

 

Your best bet would be to go to Job Setup and select "Import", and click the "Import From" button, select your file, check the "Import Operations with their geometry" check box, select the WCS/T/C Planes, Tools and all the operations you want to merge, then click the Import Button. If there are duplicate tools you will get a warning. You can either add it or not, it will prompt i fyou want to import the operation groups as well.If there are Work Coordinate conflicts, it will reassign new ones.

 

HTH

[jkilby]

Thanks James

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

You're welcome.

[foolsh]

sorry i didn't explain properly,what i mean was merging of the nc files posted out thro the postprocessor,Mr James.

[Thad]

foolsh,

 

If you want to merge nc files from the same MC9 file, just select the ops that you want together and post them.

 

If you want to merge nc files from different MC9 files, you'll have to do some manual editing, AFAIK.

 

Thad

[Tim Johnson]

How about merging nc files from non mc9 files?(c:nctemplates?.nc)

[Thad]

Tim,

 

AFAIK, you'll have to do it manually...but this area is not my forte. Hell, I don't even know what my forte is!

 

Thad

[Rekd™]

Tim,

 

I made a small VB proggy that does that. It will read all the NC files you specify, remove all but the first and last "%", and tie them together as a single file.

 

I'll post a screenie tomorrow.

[foolsh]

thanks Rekd,that's what i'd wanted for!

[Tim Johnson]

Thanks Rekd, That will save me a lot of work.

[Rekd™]

Ok, here's a couple of screenies..

 

 

 

I set it up to work with a file transfer program I made, so you could send it directly from the merge program. That's why the file it creates is a generic name. Since I'm going to prolly give this away, I added an option to resave the file as a name specified by you. It also has a toggle to auto-number the programs, in case there are multiple programs with the same number as shown above.

[Tim Johnson]

Rekd,

quote:

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Since I'm going to prolly give this away...

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Could you please send it my way?

[wtsylvester]

Visual Basic is a real handy tool when doing things like this.. I program one part let VB ...not VBS do all the footwork... make multi's.. html setup sheets , load tool routines... send email to the operators to bag the nc code... I do use DoBitmapfile out of vbs.. but the rest is so much easier to control< less code> in true vb

[Rekd™]

sylvester, I have a ton of apps I've made to help me. Here's a short list of the most common ones

 

[*]SComm: File transfer program

[*]M98 Px: Read an NC file and modify to run subs of multi parts

[*]G94 Dx: Creates canned shapes, (subs) for Boston Digital

[*]Menglish: Metric to English converter, (small window sits in corner)

[*]Tap Drill Calc: Calculates hole size or percentage of thread

[*]Calc: Bunch of machinist related functions

[*]NC Merge: Combine NC files for easy transfer

[*]MS Access Setup Sheet: Uses VBA and a custom post to create setup sheets

[*]MS Access Quote Sheet: Uses VBA to do bids on jobs

[*]Farkle: Dice game (oops, did I say game?)

[*]Any Folder: Copy/Move/Shortcut any file anywhere local from right click menu

[*]Strip Comments: Removes all comments from NC files

VB is meh friend.

[Rekd™]

I'm uploading NCMerge.ZIP to the /Apps_files section of the FTP. For those that don't need the VB6 runtimes, you can just extract the exe out of the cab file and you should be able to run it.

 

There's no help file. If you have ?'s or (nice) !'s let me know.

[Hardmill]

Could you shoot it to me Matt.

I be FTP challenged

 

 

PEACE

[wtsylvester]

Rekd,

Totally agree.. done some of the same routines

VBS is okay but is really only a subset... why run on 4 cylinders when u can use 8.

Plus Mcam doesn't have to be running and hey most of the nccode tweaking works on our Pro/E files too

 

and if it doesn't you can just tweak your source a little

 

once it's posted...it don't matter...and then the operators can run your exe files and not have to get into the mc9 files

 

Seems I sent some source to ya once... have you check out instrRev... it's kind of cool works backwards... great for getting rid of extensions

[Rekd™]

File sent, hardmill. You'll have to rename the extension to .ZIP. I guess Gmail gets confused and can't send .ZIP files...

[foolsh]

but Rekd,after pressing merge files,ther is an error message"Run-time error '9',subscript out of range" then everything closes

[foolsh]

it seems liked you can only merge 2 nc files,more than that the error comes out,and program window closes

[Rekd™]

Did it ask you to set a default file name?

[foolsh]

it didn't ask me anything,it just instals itself!