The level Manager is making me woosey!

[gcode]

I remember 32K of ram, no hard drive, no mouse

and a 4 color monitor all for the bargain price of $6K

[Storkman]

Got a point Bruce, but for some reason by the time someone figures out how to use 2 billion levels, mehthinks X will be outdated. We will prolly be using Mastercam "M".

[Guest]

jeeze gcode how old are you?

 

my first system came with a monochrome monitor, 256k ram, and 1 5.25 floppy. I think it was and intel 8088. The first upgrade I made was 640k ram and a NEC V20 CPU.

 

Remember "insert disk B"

[jeff]

lol my 1st "computer" was the Commodore 64

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

I like the new shaded look of level manager. I think more options are always good too. Maybe in the future there could be a checkbox to disable the shading. Another idea would be the option to add black separator bars to keep groups separate...(I am building on g-code's comment from the beginning of this thread)

[Müřlıń®]

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lol my 1st "computer" was the Commodore 64

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mine too....

 

The AT8086 was a real screamer......my second...

[Die Sinker]

Anyone remember the Commodore PET before the Commodore 64? Over thirty years ago!

[Slepydremr]

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2 billion levels? Anyone remember these too???

 

No-one will ever use 128meg RAM!!

How on earth am I going to fill a 40MEG HDD???

WOW!! a full MEG on a floppy?!? What will they think of next?!?!?

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Nothing against ya Bruce but to use 2 billion

levels just spending 1 second per level never going to the same level twice would take 63.4 years.

I don't plan on spending that much time on one file.

 

 

Jeff

[gcode]

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I don't plan on spending that much time on one file.

 

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Your boss will probably appreciate that.

[Bruce Caulley]

Someone will find a way to make use of it with a script or something.

 

Bruce

[gcode]

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After opening X go to the level manager, right click in the levels area, pick get named levels, and select blank levels.csv. It will load the first 2000 levels into you level manager.

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Mark,

I loaded this file and it works as adverstised.

However, it does cause a significant performance hit.

 

I was using it in a file containing solid models of (2) 8in vices and a simple part

23.5 by 2 x 4.5.

 

When I hit "ATL Z" to bring up the Level Manager

it was taking 3-5 seconds to pop up. I open the Level Manger hundreds (thousands???) of times a day. 3-5 seconds is significant.

 

I chopped your file down to 200 levels and made a new file with the same solids. The Level Manager

pops up instantly.

 

I'm running a

P3.2 with a 2 meg L3 cache

2 gig of ram

Quadro FX-3000 AGP video card

XP Pro SP2

 

Its not a powerhouse, but its not slow either.

 

If I'm seeing a 3-5 second delay with 2000 empty

layers, what kind of performace would I see

if all 2000 layers had entities on them ?

How long would it take to open a Level Manager

with 2 billion empty levels or 2 billion levels

with entities ???

 

Could a modern computer even open a file with 2 billion levels??

 

My point is this..

We have lost the function "Open All Levels"

because opening 2 billion levels is not pratical.

My experiment with 2000 levels leads me to believe

that 2 billion may not even be feasible.

If that's the case, can we please have

"Open All Levels" back????

[gcode]

bump

[Chipmakr]

I would like to be able to see the level name that I have assigned on screen. The same way we can see View, WCS, Cplane, and Tplane. Can this be accomplished with a script or Chook/nethook?

[PROG_MAN_DO]

try this and tell me what happens. Alt+z then under the list levels select box, choose one your not using, named for instance. tell me what happens to the numbers. On my box they go competely out of order..what's up with that. Now try this. cut and paste a name via the ctrl+c, ctrl+v method.

[Ken Erman from CNC Software Inc.]

Interesting ideas, i grabbed them and we will consider them for future development.

 

BTW the alternating colors was my idea, it makes my eyes feel better. But an option would make the most sense.

[fastercam]

The alternating colors in the level manager is ok, it just needs to be toned down a bit. If the grey was a little more opaque, you'd achieve the desired effect but it'd be a little easier on the eyes.

[kathy]

500 levels is probably enough for anyone -

 

BUT

 

Can we do away with the dedicated forced level number and just add each new level by alpha – numeric???

 

 

~Kathy

 

the merging in of multiple file data sets and having to presort the level names to unused numbers is killing me.

 

Oh - and it would be nice if the column width stayed consistent when opening up new files both in X and V9

[CH]

The color thing is ok. I just dont understand why v8 and v9 now have alternating colors?

[Thad]

CH,

 

They all share some of the same files.

 

Thad