Shading comand Key Stroke for V8

[Johnny]

Hello group

 

I need some help

 

How do I create a key stroke to switch between Transparent and Full Shade on V8. I know ALT S switches shade on and off but I want to be able to quickly switch to Transparent once in shade mode.

 

Any suggestions and help much appreciated

 

 

Johnny

[CNCme]

Buddy

 

Id like that too... ive never asked cause

i didnt think it was possible...???

 

 

but i would use it always

 

Tony G

[Guest]

There is no standard key stroke to do that.

[Mark H]

Rumor has it that V9.1 will have it.

[Mark H]

Source of rumor...

 

Topic: Translucent shading

 

Also in that Topic someone hints of using a macro to do this...

[bryan314]

Ok so I was a little bored today and needed a little break this afternoon. (You know you're in trouble when a sentance starts out that way. ) So I hacked together a chook that should toggle translucent. A zip file contain v8 and v9 chooks can be downloaded here:

link to translucent chook

 

I can't stress enough save your work first before running this chook. It really needs more testing. I've tested in v8 and v9 with a simple ruled surf. Also, I had to poke around into the more vague parts of the development kit to find the switches and I'm not sure how well they take to being poked.

 

Bryan

[Johnny]

Gi'Day Bryan

 

Thanks for making that CHOOK it works for me in V8 only problem is I don't know how to edit menu to put comand on Toolbar. Is there a help file somewhere which explains this.

 

Thanks and Regards

[Johnny]

Hi Bryan

 

I worked out how to edit the tool bar, the command works great.

 

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

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I don't know how to edit menu to put comand on Toolbar. Is there a help file somewhere which explains this.

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In a word; NO! Editing the mill*.txt file is VERY DANGEROUS and the same care that one uses to edit their OS Registry should be used when editing this file. With that said, it depends where you would like this put as to where you need to search. So tell me where you want to put it and I'll show you how to do it.

[cadcam]

bryan314 just wanted to say thanks works great and all it takes is key stroks of "N""L" it is now located in the Nc Utiltys comande line and the cape "L" is the command.