delete level

[turningfrick]

Hi, there:

Can any of you please advice me on how to delete a level that I don't want? Thanks.

 

Beginner in CAM

[Piglet Trespassers William]

Welcome on board .

What version of Mastercam ?

[pip]

First, same as piglet said.

What do you want to do?, do you want to delete entities on a level?

[DavidB]

You must have the Level on in the graphics window.

You must delete all entities on that level.

In the levels manager look at entities for that level, it must read 0 before you can then delete the name of the level.If you have deleted all visible entities and the level manager says there is still entities thats because something is blanked on that level.Unblank it and delete it also.

Now when you close and reopen the level manager it will be gone.

 

HTH

[RObert TImby]

In X2, X press delete button a window opens up pick the level to delete in v9 press delete button on the left press all then a level window opens to choose what level you want to delete.

[ToolMan184]

I asked a while back to be able to select a level and hit the "delete" key and the level as well as whats on it to be deleted. Hopefully they will get it done sometime soon.

 

It is Enhancement Request number cnc00027626

[Piglet Trespassers William]

I don`t consider it to be enhancement.

It turns MC more dangerous

Like you ever had need to delete level at all ?

[ToolMan184]

I have a need to every day. I import AutoCad drawings with many mnay layers (levels). Most of which I dont need in my MC file. Deleting all the entities then clearing the name of the level is a PITA. It would be much easier to click the level and delete it all. It would be an enhancement for me.

[Guest]

It's too bad there is not a way to do it on import.

 

While I see your point of getting rid of the unused stuff, I see the point that just being able to highlight and delete a level "could" be a rather dangerous feature.

 

There would have to be a safety on it asking because of associative geometry to toolpaths and/or solids.

 

Ooo :shiver: I can many issues arising from it.

 

Cleaning that stuff on import would be a much better approach, meh thinks.

[ToolMan184]

If they fixed it with the undelete it should keep the gitters down.

 

I do see your point as well John, But geeesh Im tired of deleting the entities then clearing the name out. Especially when you have 40-50 layers per drawing and ya do 6-10 drawings a day. I just want to hit the delete key. It would be much faster to select the levels you dont want hit the delete key and click yes Im sure I want to delete them and WAALAA your done and grammin in minutes.

 

I have caught some in AutoCad and cleaned up before importing.

[Thee Rickster ™]

I leave unwanted levels visible.

 

When I delete all geometry on a lvl or many visible

lvls, after I close the lvl manager, the levels

disappear. Except if one of the lvls is the current and the lvl with the imported geometry's

associative entities.

 

It only takes a few seconds and works all the time

for me.

 

anyone else?

[Eeyore-nonhuman forum member]

Undelete would not help .

Your toolpathes may loose geometry ,and that would be the pain in the ***

[Slydman]

From DavidB

 

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If you have deleted all visible entities and the level manager says there is still entities thats because something is blanked on that level.Unblank it and delete it also.

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If you look in Topic: Deleting blanked entities

 

You will find this chook "delblankentvis.dll", it delete all entities on the active and visible level. I use it a lot and works find

[Slydman]

Sorry, it delete all blanked on the active and visible level