Programming C-hooks

[another newbie]

I read a couple of the c-hooks programming questions. I have one I could not find the answer to and it is a little wordy.

 

I would like to write a hook that will read toolpathed files and merge them together. Similar to how nesting works now. I want to automate things instead of someone sitting waiting.

 

I know I need to do a couple of things, One is to be able to change x & y values for each file that I merge in (so in need to be able to "read" a mastercam file). I hope this is doable!!!

 

thanks in advance for any thoughts/advice!!!

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

AN,

You might want to visit the "Developer's Forum" with this question, if you haven't already.

 

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...?ubb=forum;f=13

[Allan Brown]

I'm going to just move the topic.

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

Welcome to developer's hell

 

I think that is doable.

 

you can import operations by using import_operations function.

 

and xfrom the geometries by xfrom fucntions like translate_silent,

or just rewrite the existing entities.

 

and then assign them to the operations and regenerate them.

just a thought..

 

there are lots of ways to do what you want to do.