Anothe dumb question

[westerfieldc]

When I open a .MCX-5 file in X6 and then save it Mastercam creates a new .MCX-6 and leaves the old .MCX-5 file behind. I would prefer it just updates the X5 file to X6 but I can't figure out what to do.

 

Thanks.

[BenK]

You will have to just go delete the X5 file after saving it to the X6 format.

[CJep]

I'm sorry but I think this falls under the category of "you're dammed if ya do & dammed if ya don't"

[peon]

It would be a nice to have a checkbox in the "save file" window for that purpose, but I would hope CNC would NEVER default to write over the file. I would NEVER overwrite a previous version's file that way. I would want to make sure it worked fine in X6 first, then delete the old file.

[DODGERFAN]

It would be a nice to have a checkbox in the "save file" window for that purpose, but I would hope CNC would NEVER default to write over the file. I would NEVER overwrite a previous version's file that way. I would want to make sure it worked fine in X6 first, then delete the old file.

+1000

[westerfieldc]

Thanks for the answers, I could have sworn that previous versions did that.

[gcode]

Thanks for the answers, I could have sworn that previous versions did that.

 

 

They did... prior to X5, all the X versions had a file extension of MCX.

If you opened an X3 in X4 and hit Save.. the X3 file was gone

 

 

You could also go the other way with disasterous results..

 

If you tried to open an X4 in X3, you'd get a "future version" alarm and an empty file.

At this point, hitting "Save" would yield an empty X3 file with your X4 file completely destroyed.

 

With version specfic file extensions, these problems are eliminated..but you wind up with multiple version of the file

if you don't delete the old versions... a good trade off IMO

[shazam/TPP]

Why not just update your X5 folder? go to file, update folder, select part files only, specify which versions to update, select your source file, and then your destination file. this way you keep your mcx-5 files but now also have mcx-6 files. hth

[westerfieldc]

My thought process is this, I really only want to keep the most current file that I have which would be the X6 program. With multiple people on our site making programs I feel they could miss the MCX-6 file and update the MC-5 file. I can understand everyone eles's ideas on why the things are the way they are. I don't want to take the time to update all my files to the newest version each time it comes out. It's just my thought process.