Editors - PFE32 - For those who use it...

[Brad McIntosh]

I had noticed that occassionally someone will mention PFE32 that has been supplied as one of the editors in the Mastercam product over the years. I have been using it as a post editor for many years and even have it associated to standard TXT files in place of Notepad.

 

For those of you that may use it, you have probably noticed that version 0.06.002 (the one still shipped with MC) does not support a mouse scroll wheel...

 

Well many years ago I came accross the very last version of PFE32 that was released by it author - version 1.01.000. This version supports the mouse wheel (and may have a couple of other fixes in it).

 

I have uploaded this newer version of PFE32 to CADCAM's FTP site. The ZIP file can be found in the TOOLS directory as "pfe32-v101i.zip". Once you have downloded it, you can unzip it right into the /macam_/common/editors/pfe/ directory. Overwrite the existing old PFE32 files.

[BernieT]

Thank you, Brad!!

 

[Slepydremr]

Works sweet. I always forget and try to scroll in pfe32 while editing post after using cimco to look at the nc code.

 

Thanks.

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

I was never attracted to the pfe.

 

I did, however recently open a post in the MCX editor and was pleasantly surprised to see that it changes colors in ways that make a post much easier for a noob such as myself to understand.

 

It's worth a look if you haven't tried it yet.

[Ken Erman from CNC Software Inc.]

We tried to work out the rights with the author of PFE32 to distribute his last release but he was not interested so we are stuck with what we have.

[Steve Zirtzman]

Ken,

I remember Alan Phillips saying in an email that he stopped working on PFE and is not supporting it anymore, but didn't he say that you could put up a link to the 1.01 version?

[wildcat99]

Thanks I use PFE all the time, except when doing a file compare with the Cimco editor.

[MIL-TFP-41]

very cool, thanks