ug has hijacked my coolant menu!

[beej]

I've been trying to figure it out. Those guys at Cnc Software Inc. are pretty darn smart. And X has some pretty cool stuff. granted, somethings need fixing but all in all it's pretty cool software. But this coolant menu--I couldn't figure out what could have happened there. But I just figured it out. Some UG engineers upon seeing Mastercam's market share knew something had to be done to stop them so they broke in, in the middle of the night and swapped our coolant menu with their own. I know that's what had to happen to it. It's COOLANTGATE! We've gotta snuff out these guys, hunt 'em down and treat them for the no-gooders that they are.

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

Beej

Post some screen shots!

[beej]

Tony, I don't really have a screenshot to post. Your coolant menu probably looks just the same as mine.

 

whisper....I'm teasing cnc software about the fact that they could've just used radio buttons.

[Mcam Nut]

I have had coolant issues my self, the menu changed on me, the way i fixed this id under machine defination manager click the 5th icon on top ( general machine parameters ) click on the coolant commands tab, and put a check in the support coolant commands using post values box. This worked for me

[beej]

Mcamnut,

that's how mine is setup also. What I'm saying is that you shouldn't have to disable coolant and enable Mist. We should just be able to pick the one we want and be done with it. No pulldown menus, no enabledisable. just pick it.

 

I guess you wouldn't know if you've never used Unigraphics but it has some of the most ridiculous menus anywhere. that's where I was coming from on the first post.

 

that's also why i'm a programmer and not a comedian. i guess

[chowquoe^]

beej,

UG has f'd up menus, the one I personally love most is trying to turn on your cutter comp. Nothing like being 3 layers deep.

 

[Guest]

Ah yes the infamous cutting parametres hunt though a maze of menus all of them different depending on your tool path.

[beej]

chris,

Man, that one always got under my skin too. Sure hope it never gets like that with mastercam. The one thing I've always like about mastercam since version 3 is a streamlined approach to getting a toolpath to the CNC. Even back in the day when you had one shot straight through a set of parameters with no way to changed them once they were set. It was so streamlined that you could rewrite a program in the time that most software would take to edit and existing one.