T/C Planes - Making Changes in Ops

[n_tydingco]

I have an existing program that I have edited to reflect our change in set-up. Because of this change, I had to change my Tool Plane. (i.e. I've gone from using View #12 to #15.)

 

Now, I go into each operation affected by the new Tplane and change the T and Cplanes. Sometimes there are over 30 ops in a group. I want to know if there is a quick way to change all of the ops without having to go into each one -- in the same manner as changing the NCI file.

 

Thanks in advance!

[crazy^millman]

Well you might try WCS to do this or edit common operation but find i buggy at best with this method. Bets way is to do it like you do as I have found. I wish there were and easy way like the workoffset, change tool number method but there is not one I have found open to see what other sya but not any I have seen be very good at it. Rekd what about you what have you found?

[robk]

You have the option of editing common parameters in your operation manager... Right click/ Options/ Edit Common Parameters.

IMO, you're safer doing them 1 @ a time no matter how many ops. you have... In a few instances I had over a couple of hundred ops. to edit like that.

[n_tydingco]

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...In a few instances I had over a couple of hundred ops. to edit like that.

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I'm sure this is something that could be made a lot easier via a macro or some other automated function that can find ops that share the old Tplanes and convert them to the newly desired Tplane. It's a tedious task that takes away from my forum reading time

[CAREYL]

One possible solution is to save the ops to a file. select save with geometry. open a new file and select the work plane you want to change to. import the ops in the new file and select assign current t & c planes.

[mayday]

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I'm sure this is something that could be made a lot easier via a macro or some other automated function

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how bout fixing the bug CNC

[Tim Johnson]

This is a process that I have to do at least once a week. I very much hope this is fixed in X.