Personal toolpath defaults??

[Patriot]

I am currently using shared working directories for machine definitions and tool libraries, but I want to use my own default tool path settings. I can't figure out which setting actually changes this and lets me use my own settings, since the default ones we are using always have things to be changed everytime and the one in charge made the default file a read only. I can't save my settings because of the read only, and he does not like others changing anything... :-/

 

So, can I keep the same machine definitions and everything as them, but pull my tool path defaults from my own file? And how?

 

X5MU1

[Thad]

If you're not able to edit the .DEFAULTS file, which is where these settings are stored, your next option would be to create an operations library and import all of your toolpaths from that.

 

Thad

[Guest]

So, can I keep the same machine definitions and everything as them, but pull my tool path defaults from my own file? And how?

 

The short answer is yes you can., in your case though, since you machine and control defs are shared, no, not really. The directory paths for the op defaults is handled in the control def so if you change a shared file, the setting changes for everyone

 

 

The much longer answer begins with do you know what files you're looking for and where they are?

 

If you're not real good at computer stuff a call to your reseller and he could get you swapped over in a couple of minutes.

 

Make a folder in your "My Documents"/

 

my mcamx5/tool defaults

 

So you have a new folder called tool defaults

 

go into the shared mcamx5\mill\ops folder

 

Take a copy of

 

mill inch.defaults

mill inch ops

 

copy them to your

 

my mcamx5\tool defaults

 

You would then have to change the file usage for every file you do.

 

 

So with the shared control def, there's no way to change the default settings but you "could" change them at the file level but it's puts a couple of mouse clicks on you

[Patriot]

Thanks JParis. Looks like that's what I'll be going with