Mastercam X HTML Setup Sheet Trial

[Allan Brown]

Our HTML Setup Sheets for X are ready for trial at www.emastercam.com/tools/html

 

you must have administrative rights to install properly.

[tooljockey]

Looks great, but I can't get it to work.

I set everything that the read me text said.

Any suggestions?

[Bullines]

Does it run? Do you get any error messages?

[tooljockey]

It doesnt even open up.

When I right-click in ops mgr. and select setup-sheet, it automatically creates a "miil.set" type setup-sheet.

Have I missed something?

[Scott Sizemore]

You need to change to Html.set in your machine def.

[tooljockey]

GOT IT!

Thanks, scott333!

[Scott Sizemore]

Happy I could help.

[MLewis]

I'm running Router. Changed to HTML.set in the machine def and still get a router.set setup-sheet?

[Allan Brown]

In your *live* Control Definition?

[Allan Brown]

Make sure to back up any custom HTML.set files your have.

[tooljockey]

Sooooooo, about how much $ for a "custom" html?

[dwsz71]

Installed the trial.

Copied the html.set and html.psb to the network dir where my posts are.

Opened an existing part, edited the CD to use the network .set file.

 

I get the error "Installation Problem - Program Will Exit".

 

Any ideas? I'll try a reboot for ha-has.

[dwsz71]

Nope.

 

My install dir is not C:mcamx, if that matters.

[dwsz71]

#Root Mastercam location

sroot "C:mcamx"

 

I suppose it would.

[dwsz71]

Got a new error before it finished posting

 

Error

IActiveScriptSite::OnScriptError()

Line:

 

But it did finish. Isn't there supposed to be a picture of the part included on the setup sheet?

[Allan Brown]

The first error resolved then? The second error looks like the inability to create a directory, or the ability to have us run a hidden process (the EMF big image to small GIF image conversion is DOS, and we do that in the background).

[Bullines]

I'd look into whether or not you have permission to create files/directories in the NC directory.

[dwsz71]

Dave,

 

Yes, problem one has been corrected.

 

I do have permission to create directories. The application may not be able to though. Mastercam won't even create, or ask approval to create for that matter, a sub-directory if I specify one that doesn't exist in the Toolpath Name dialog. I have to browse and create it manually.

 

What is the "EMF big image"?

 

Hi Bullines!

 

Here's a better question, if I already saved my mcx file, and already posted my nc file, what directory is left to create?

 

I also noticed that the html file gets saved to my mcx file dir. Normally with the doc (mill, mill2.set) files, they go into the nc directory from the Toolpath Name dialog. I didn't dig past the sroot line of the .set file, but I will.

 

Pretty cool stuff!

 

Thanks again.

 

Dave H.

I²S

[dwsz71]

Changed stock_img : 3 (3 = bad), to

 

stock_img : 0

 

finished with no error.

 

stock_img : 1

 

Finished with no error

 

stock_img : 2

 

Errored (same), finished with no part image

 

stock_img : 4

 

Finished with no errors

[x:dirsubdirpart.gif not found] !okay by me!

 

Any ideas?

 

Dave H.

I²S

 

p.s. - where are the images supposed to go?

[MLewis]

~ My *LIVE" control def is set to HTML.Set

~ I changed the system config Router Setup Sheet to HTML.set.

 

Still get a router.set type setup-sheet?

 

Everything points to C:Mcamx except .mcx and .nc files which point to a server location.

[Allan Brown]

If you can't create a directory, then you're pooched. The stock_img options run a VBS that creates and /images subdirectory in your MCX file location. That's your issue.

 

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MLewis - no thoughts yet on that...

[Allan Brown]

In X, the MCX rules. You could have multiple Machine Groups with multple NC destinations.

 

When you create a setup sheet, by default it uses the NC path and filename of the ops by your Red Arrow.

 

We're taking that file, and renaming it to reside with your MCX, named the same. We're all like MCX-centric now, which was a decision we didn't come to lightly. As a quick example - how do you get the name of your NC file and path now in X VBS? You can't, but you can get the MCX path and name.

[dwsz71]

But I can create a dir. How/where does the software attempt to create the dir?

 

Does it look for the mcx files in the native install mcx directories?

 

Can it do in a subdirectory of a subdirectory?

 

Why does the EMF work but not the png or gif?

[dwsz71]

quote:

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But I can create a dir. How/where does the software attempt to create the dir?

 

Does it look for the mcx file's in the native install mcx directories?

 

Can it do in a subdirectory of a subdirectory?

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Forget all that, I have the image subdir in the mcx files dir.

 

But...

 

quote:

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Why does the EMF work but not the png or gif?

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... is still up for grabs.

 

Dave H.

I²S

[DavidB]

I downloaded the HTML file from Mastercam.

Put the files in where my posts are.

quote:

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1. Run the .exe file to install to your root Mastercam directory

(e.g. C:Mcamx).

 

2. Modify your Control Definitions to output parameter information

such as 'stock left' by enabling the 'Write NC Operation information'

check box under the NC parameter file area of the Files Control topic.

 

3. HTML.set and HTML.psb must reside in the same directory as

your currently selected Post Processor.

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But when I go to setup sheet in MCX lathe it crashes every time.

What am I doing wrong?