adding drive solid to Surf Rough Contour

[Roger James]

Hi guys,

 

Newbie NetHook programmer here.

NetHook2_0.dll

X2_MR2

 

I have the following code to add a solid to an operation I've imported. However, I can't find the docs or an example that tell me how to access / manipulate the Surface Rough Contour. All I can find seems to talk about 2D ops.

 

 

code:

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         Public Overrides Function Run(ByVal param As Integer) As MCamReturn

 

Dim strOpsFile As String = "J:MasterCamTestTemporaryOpsFile.mcx"

Dim intOpID As Integer = 2

 

'-> place all solids into an array

Dim objSolids() As Mastercam.Database.SolidGeometry

objSolids = Mastercam.Support.SearchManager.GetSolidGeometry()

 

'-> as a test, report the number of solids found

MsgBox("number of solids found: " & CStr(objSolids.Length))

 

'-> loop thru the array of solids, import an operation for each and add the solid to the op

For intI As Integer = 0 To objSolids.Length

'-> import the rough surface contour operation

Dim OpImport As Mastercam.Database.Operation

OpImport = Mastercam.Operations.OperationsManager.ImportOperation(strOpsFile, intOpID, True, True)

 

'-> code here to somehow add each solid to the imported operation

 

Next

 

Return MCamReturn.NoErrors

End Function

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My questions are:

1. Where in the object browser do I find the objects dealing with surface / solid tool paths.

2. What would the code look like to add the solids in my array to the drive surface of the surface rough cuts?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

Roger,

 

FYI -

Those operation types listed (in Mastercam.Operations) are the only operations currently supported in the NetHook API.

 

*What cannot be done with a NETHook can usually be accomplished via a CHook (C++/MFC).

[Roger James]

Roger,

 

Thanks for the quick reply. This functionality is fundamental to the project I was hoping to implement - nesting of solids.

 

Do you have an ETA of when these functionalities will be exposed in .net? I really can't justify learing C++ for this project. Unigraphics has a similar problem when they went from C++ based API to the .NET system. They addressed it by wrapped the C++ functions as vb.net. Do you have any plans to possibly do this?

 

Thanks again for your help.

 

Roger James

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

quote:

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Do you have an ETA of when these functionalities will be exposed in .net?

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Roger,

 

They're not wrapping everything with .NET that you can do via the CHook SDK - unless they get requests for something specific.

 

I would suggest that you detail what functionality that you're looking for (and provide some details as to your ultimate goal for using this functionality) and submit it your request to [email protected]

 

*While there is no guarantee that this will get you those functions, if you or no one else asks for them, you probably will not see them "just appear" in the API.