Opening an MC9 file in a CHook???

[Robert Brower]

Up until now I've been importing parasolids, and iges files into mastercam. Now I need to open an MC9 file but I can find no function to do so in the SDK examples or documentation.

 

Would I use open_file() and get_db() to do this? I can see there is a VB Script method for doing so, but I'd like to know how to do it in C. Does anyone know of a sample for this?

 

Thanks,

 

Robert

[Lee.]

Robert, What version of Mastercam are you running?

[Robert Brower]

9.1 but it actually does work when you use the correct file attributes. I mistakenlyused "r" when it should have been "r+b". I wish I could delete this post.

 

Also, in the m_db.h for get_db() it says:

 

boolean *succf); /* O: TRUE = error storing in the database */

 

I mistakenly thought when succf was true there was an error because of my literal translation of the comment. When succf is true the function has succeeded, otherwise it is false.

 

Thank you though.TGIF.

 

Robert