Chook to help the community

[Colin Gilchrist]

I would really like a chook or nethook that would reload all the MCX copies of the Machine Definition files without having to open each machine group and do the "replace" manually. This can be a real pain on files that have 5+ machine groups. I could see this being a huge help to everyone, as getting a corrupt Machine definition file can cause terrible crashing problems that are hard to diagnose.

 

Thanks,

[Colin Gilchrist]

Bump... common guys (and gals)...

 

We really need a utility that reloads fresh copies of all the machine definition files in an MCX file. This should be pretty easy...

 

Gunther, Ernie, Takashisan, Zerren...

 

Are you guys out there?

[Thee Rickster ™]

Colin, great Idea

 

Send it to QA as well, it should be Automatic and built in the software or fixed so that it doesn't have to be replaced.

[Colin Gilchrist]

The word from CNC Software is "Fixed for X3, so you shouldn't need to do a replacement", but we'll see.

 

In the mean time, I'm sure a whole lot of X2 MR2 users would love this chook...

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

Hi

It was national holidays in my country

 

 

Anyway, I just made a chook that calls the function 'SelectTpGroupMachineDef()' for each machine groups.

 

http://ai-sols.sytes.net/download/SwapMachines.dll

 

let me know if it works or does not..

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Seems to work in X2, but not X3.

[Colin Gilchrist]

Satosan to the rescue!

 

Thanks Takashi. I'll need to fire it up at work on Monday and test to see how if it handles reloading the machine definitions from a network file path, but it works great when running it locally.

 

Is this a Chook or a NetHook? Can I add a bitmap image to it so I can create a toolbar button? If I create a couple bitmap images and email them to you, would you add them? I bet this chook will be great for a lot of people.

 

You are the Master Takashi, if you ever come to Seattle or anywhere close, the Sake or Beer is on me.

 

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

This is a chook file.Please send me your bitmap images, I can add them.

 

quote:

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.. but not X3.

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It looks there are lots of changes between X2 and X3. I have a lot of things to do!

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

Thank you Colin for the new bitmaps,

 

Here is a new one.

 

http://ai-sols.sytes.net/download/SwapMachines.zip

[Colin Gilchrist]

Awesome, everything works great Takashi!

 

I think this will be a huge help for everyone who is running X2 MR2.

 

For everyone who uses this utility: the icon is located in the Machine Definition Category in the Customize Dialog box. You can add the command to a toolbar, or to the right mouse click menu. You can also Keymap to this function.

 

Usage:

 

Basically you run the "Swap Machine" Chook, and press "enter" to accept the replacement of each machine in the Operations Manager. The Chook will cycle through each Machine listed and will re-load that machine definition from the library copy.

 

This is especially useful for Mastercam files that were created in a previous Mastercam "X" version (X, X-MR1, X-MR2, X2, X2-MR1, X2-MR2 (no SP)).

 

Reasons to use this utility:

 

If you created your file in a previous version of Mastercam, and you try to modify toolpath parameters without doing a "replace" on each machine group, Mastercam will be very crash prone.

 

Many people have complained about Mastercam crashing non-stop, only to learn about the "reload" button in the Machine Group Properties, which usually stops the frequent crashing problem.

 

I hope everyone uses this as much as I will. Thanks again Takashi, I owe you one.

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

woot,

I noticed that it only swaps machine files, and it does not change the post file.

 

I have to look into this.

 

Please wait a while.

[Takashi Sato from Ai Solutions.]

OK.

 

I think I fixed the issue.

 

http://ai-sols.sytes.net/download/SwapMachines.zip

When you run this chook with control key pressed,

it will only swap the current active machine.