Editing canned cycle fields

[Bruce]

Hello all,

 

I wish to gray out a range of input fields in one particular canned cycle, which is not in use. I edited the fields in the Mill8 and the post text files for that corresponding cycle but it has only grayed out some fields.

 

FROM

 

[bore2]

1. "Boring - not in use"

2. "Feed rate"

3. "Dwell"

4. "Initial height"

5. "Reference height"

6. "Depth"

7. ""

8. ""

9. ""

10. ""

11. ""

 

TO

 

[bore2]

1. "Boring - not in use"

2. ""

3. ""

4. "t"

5. ""

6. ""

7. ""

8. ""

9. ""

10. ""

11. ""

 

The "Depth, Reference height and the Top of stock" are still active. Is it possible to grey out these fields or even better remove any reference to that particular cycle in MC?

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

Bruce,

 

Mastercam doesn't allow those fields to become inactive. Why? Well probably because those values are a must for a drill cycle. Should they let you grey them out??? I can log it as a bug for you and see what happens.

 

If you delete the text in item number 1, which is the cycle description that shows up in the drop down list, then that position in the list will be blank. You can still select it and use it, but it will not show up in the list. This may be just enough to keep someone from selecting the cycle.

 

Another solution would be to modify your post to call just standard drilling postblocks when that cycle is selected. That way if the the cycle does get selected, at least the NC code would be usable for a simple drill.

 

Hope this helps!