Duplicate Tools??

[hlg2]

Hey guys.... guess who!!

 

I dont know if maybe it's the way I'm doing it. Or what.... but

 

when I search through the operations and pick out tools. It's for some reason, creating copies of the tools. So by the time I get through all the operations its it adds more of the same tools for somereason.

 

what's odd. is that it adds 15 instances of the same tool, and I only have 4 operatoins.

? just sounds odd, I could understand maybe double the operations ya know. or something. Really actually dont understand why it adds the tools in the first place.

 

I dont know I really dont get it.

 

I'm not creating a new tool. maybe when I use

 

 

Dim opref As COperationRef

Dim toolref As CToolRef

 

toolref = opref.operationTool

 

maybe its creating a tool to be able to read the opref tool??

 

I dont know.

 

is it the way I'm doing it.

 

And also.

 

If I have two machine groups.

and I reference the stock dimensions

 

I get the xyz of the last machine group.

 

So I was wondering how do I distinguish between operation groups?

 

[hlg2]

Ok... I've went rhrough piece by piece of the code.

 

and for even one operation with just one tool.

 

It adds a tool instance with this

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Mastercam.MCFile.GetOperations(fname, oplist)

 

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Maybe I should clean release it or something?

[hlg2]

Been playing with this some more...

 

If I have two machine groups.

and I use the GetOperations thing

 

then it puts all the duplicated tool instances in the second group. Even puts the tools from machine group in with the tools of machine group 2. Just seems odd...

 

Dont really know what else I could do....

 

Is there another way to get the operstions?

 

There's one more thing I could try

maybe instead of this

 

Dim oplist As ArrayList = New ArrayList

 

take out the New ArrayList part?

 

..................................... nope

 

that and I even tried doing a

 

oplist = nothing

 

and

 

gc.collect()

 

so now I'm clueless

[hlg2]

does any one else get this??

 

 

wouldn't be bad... but just kinda makes me weary of the other functions.

[hlg2]

Cus really when I fire off a nethook that may have

 

getoperations function

 

in it. I shouldn't... as a mcam user. actually see the operations jump like they do.

 

ya know. if you have a lot of operations. then when it jumps like that. doing whatever its doing. It takes a long time just for up to 10 operations.

 

should be undisturbed ya know.

 

can't leave no trace

 

cus If I start messing with geometry. and I mess something up because of one of these functions. I'd hate to be the one to blame for destroying weeks of work.

[Mick from CNC Software Inc.]

This was a bug with the NETHook function and has been fixed for beta 1 X2