How I can type more than one line in MASTERCAM

[schwedt]

Hi

 

I would like to type three or more lines once.

 

What is the best way in M 9.0.

 

Best Regards.

 

 

Muqtadir

[BlueBeard]

Ctrl+M works for me

[cadcam]

Ok I give What does Ctrl+M.

Please explain thanks.

[Andy]

I think it means press the enter key?

Andy

[Jack Mitchell]

line*2

line*3

etc!

 

Guys you're just standing a little too close to the forest on this one!

Please forgive the response, it's well past my bedtime.

 

Regards, Jack

 

[ 02-02-2003, 10:02 PM: Message edited by: Jack Mitchell ]

[iowajim62]

Hi schwedt,

Go to Create,Drafting,Note and start typing.

HTH

[ssibiski]

Schwedt,

When you get done typeing what you want on a line just press the enter key it will move you down to the next line.

HTH

Steve Sibiski

[Guest]

This thread has me confused. Where in mastercam are you trying to enter more then one line of text at a time. Is it to create entities for engraving? Also, what is this control M thing? And where do you use it.

 

[ 02-04-2003, 10:00 PM: Message edited by: Marc Lindsey at San Diego CAD CAM ]

[Ying Jiang]

When you are typing the comments in tool path parameter page (the first one). If you just keep on typing pass one line length, the comments window will show word wrap but when you post it out, you will see it's a one line comments.

 

Ctrl + M allows you to type multi-line comments. When you finish one line, do a "Ctrl + M" then you can start the next line...

 

Try both ways and post it out then you'll see what I mean.

 

HTH.

[Mgrenier]

Hello all,

 

On the same topic, is it possible to have the tool comments in the tool parameters page to be posted with multiple lines? This would be very helpfull and time saving for us.

 

Thanks and have a nice day,

[Simtech]

Martin,

 

I knew you were going to ask that question in here!

 

Hope we get an answer!

 

Luc

[Allan Brown]

Martin - Consider using the Comment, Manufacturer's Tool Code, and Chuck lines if you need more space. You'll have to have the post modified to grab those fields.

[Guest]

Ying Jiang:

 

Thanks. That clears this thread up for me and answers a question I never knew I had.

[Mgrenier]

Dave,

This is good but what can I do if I have a tool description that has more than 3 lines?

 

Here is an example of the tool descriptions we have:

 

N0000 (S )(* T06 SPADE DRILL 21/32" DIA.)

N0000 (S )(* BLADE #150T-0021)

N0000 (S )(* BODY #25005H-002I)

N0000 (S )(* SLEEVE MORSE 3A2 + EXTENSION MORSE 3A3)

N0000 (S )(* HOLDER #B-645 OU #E-535)

 

thanks and have a nice day,

 

P.S. Just edited to ad the example.

 

[ 02-05-2003, 08:05 AM: Message edited by: marting ]

[Allan Brown]

Perhaps consider a Manual Entry operation for this level of tool description. You could have text files with the tool names synched to your library, and use the file option to reads these in.

[Mgrenier]

quote:

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You could have text files with the tool names synched to your library, and use the file option to reads these in.

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And how would someone go to do this? This seems like a great way to go for me.

 

Thanks and have a nice day,

[Allan Brown]

Toolpaths, Next Menu, Manual Ent, use the file option. Make text files called T1.txt etc. that contain the info. Read them at the time of posting if you'd like changes in the txt files to be 'associative' to older files that need reposting.

[Mgrenier]

Thanks Dave,

 

I'll give it a try.

 

Have a nice day,

[Simtech]

Dave, Martin,

 

This would mean that each tool called up in Mastercam would have to maintain the correct tool number, i.e., you couldn't have the option to number tools sequentially ... is that right?

[Allan Brown]

That's right.