accidental deletion of operations

[YO]

I've been using Mill X MR2 for a year or so now and there are a few things that are driving me nuts. One thing in particular is pretty dangerous and unless you are paying extra careful attention and backing up your files dilegently, you can loose some or all of your operations. It's happened to me enough times that I know what to watch for now, but I figured it would be worth mentioning here so others can avoid the same problem. Here's the situation.

 

I backplot or verify a selection of operations. Next, I decide to delete some geometry for whatever reason. If my operations manager is open and I don't click on the graphics window before pressing the "delete" key. It will delete the operations that I had highlighted without warning. In my opinion, mastercam should be asking if I'm sure I want to delete these operations. Just like how it asks if I'm sure when I try to delete geometry that's used in a toolpath or a named view. Is this the kind of thing that could be added to the next maintenance pack?

[Guest]

If you delete something in your OP manager, if you do nothing else, you can immediately right click and use undelete.

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

If undelete will not work I beleive you can close Mastercam without saving and when you open Mastercam again your operations will be there. You will lose whatever you've worked on since your last save but it beats losing all your operations. This is a something I would try only if you have no other options.

[VBJB]

I second this fix!!

 

I have had the same problem. Every once and a while I delete operations, sometimes I can bring them back and sometimes I do not realize they are gone until later.

[YO]

Yeah, that's what I've been doing. But I'm sure you all understand that sometimes you might not realise untill it's too late. My autosave is set to 5 minutes, so that's saved me a few times. It's frustrating more than anything. I think a simple "Are you sure you want to delete these operations?" would be an easy fix.

[William Grizwald]

One of my requests has been for a "real" undo function tool. It would affect not only geometry edits but OM edits as well. There would be a dropdown listing of the changes by order so you know which thing your undoing. This funntionality has been available in other systems so I see no reason MCX shouldn't have this ability as well.

 

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Bill

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

Good point Degmc I've been afraid to push that button.