Level Manger Clean Up

[b.bixel]

Running X2MR2. Is there a script, macro, c-hook, vb, which will delete records in the Level Manager which have 0 Entities?

 

I'm planning on having a seed model with a boat load of level names already populated. After importing files of various formats, I'd like to strip out the unused names without doing it by hand.

 

Regards,

Bart

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

Mastercam's Level Manager 'auto' purges empty levels, but not if that level is "named".

 

Is that what you are referring to?

 

'Empty' named levels?

[b.bixel]

Thanks for the reply Roger, but the answer is no.

 

I'm going to populate a level map with a bunch of names, maybe 40 levels worth (say levels 1-40). Depending on the engineering I merge in from CATIA V5, in my case, I might find I'll have entities in levels 1-10. So I need away to automate deleting the remaining levels/names (11-40), after the import/translation process. Clicking on the level and deleting the text for each unused level is tedious at best.

 

Hope this cleared things up a bit.

 

Regards,

Bart

 

[ 01-24-2008, 01:40 PM: Message edited by: b.bixel ]

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

"Hope this cleared things up a bit."

 

Ah, no...

 

I think we are talkin' about the same thing.

 

You have levels that contain no no data (entities), but they do have "names".

To rid yourself of those levels, you must delete the "name" before you (or Mastercam) can remove (delete) these 'empty' levels from the list.

 

Correct?

[Colin Gilchrist]

Roger,

 

That is exactly what Bart is referring to. He wants to "delete the level name" if no geometry exists on that level.

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

Bart / Colin,

 

That's what I thought he said.

I was concerned, as I've created this cool add-on (CHook) and then Bart appeared to tell me "no".

 

Well it's your lucky day, as for the low, LOW price (free), now available on the Forum FTP site in the X2_Add_Ons folder is DeleteEmptyNamedLevels (X2-MR2).zip that does that.

 

It deletes all empty "named" levels with one click o' the mouse. (OK, so it really takes 2 clicks).

 

***IMPORTANT***

This add-on only works with X2-MR2!

If you try to run it under a prior version of X2, you won't trash anything, you'll just get (3) errors messages when Mastercam refuses to run it.

[b.bixel]

Roger,

I apologize for not fully understanding your 1st reply. So, I'm changing my answer to "yes".

The free C-hook is a great buy as it works just fine.

I appreciate the prompt help.

 

Regards,

Bart

[Steve Landkamer]

Roger,

Couldn't you do it with one click if you run it through ScripLinker.dll?

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

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Couldn't you do it with one click if you run it through ScripLinker.dll?

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NO...

What I'm doing cannot be done with a script.

 

But I could make it one click, just by taking out the confirmation dialog.

[ToolMan184]

Roger,

 

Could you update this for X3. It use it a lot and would like to add it to X3.

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

On the Forum FTP in the X3_Add_Ons folder ->

DeleteEmptyNamedLevels (X3).zip

[ToolMan184]

You are the man Roger.

 

Thanks!!!