Toggle Display on Selected Operations

[Rotary Ninja]

Why is it when I select "1" operation and click this button 10 other operations toggle on? And why is it when I click this button the setting in the config - "Repaint Toolpath" gets toggled on???

[Jayson Kramer]

Are talking about different paths toggling on and off at different points?

 

You know about Alt T when on the graphics screen and T when in the Ops Manager correct?

[Pilot Plant Supervisor]

Might be the "only display selected toolpaths" button in the Operation manager. The guy I share the system with always has this pushed in and it drives me NUTS!

[Rotary Ninja]

I don't like to have the toolpath display when I create a toolpath. When I want to see it I backplot. Using Alt+T and T does the same as the button does the way I see it. Unless I am doing something wrong? But if I start a new file, create a few toolpaths, then create a stock model toolpath the stock model toolpath defaults to visible. So if I toggle it off some or all of the toolpaths I have created toggle on even though I don't have any selected except the stock model toolpath. It's very annoying.

[Pilot Plant Supervisor]

This button is what I'm talking about. I still haven't figured it out.

[Rotary Ninja]

With that button pressed down the toolpaths you select will display on the screen. I am referring to the button 6 places to the left.

[djstedman]

This doesn't sound like the behaviour I see..

 

When I click the three squiggly lines button.. ie the button 6 places to the left.. it toggles toopath display for whatever toolpath I currently have selected.. as shown with a blue check mark on that operation.

 

If your working with one toolpath it works as a toggle.. and is pretty simple..

 

When it gets weird is when you have one toolpath toggled on.. and you select the rest of them... then when you toggle it .. it turns the rest on while leaveing the original still on (no toggle on that one)

 

The next time you click it.. it shuts all the selected toolpaths off..

 

I have to assume this behaviour is intentional, since otherwise you would be forever trying to reselect just the ones that were displayed in order to get all of them displayed or not displayed..

 

Other than that one bit of weirdness which I beleive is intentional its always worked pretty much exactly as I would have expected it too.

 

What you were explaining with ones you dont have selecting toggling on and off seems really bizzare.. think you could make a video of it happening or something? mayeb that would help figure it out since it doesnt seem to do that on my end using x6 MU2

[Rotary Ninja]

Yes, I can recreate it. I am probably doing something wrong. But I will do a video. Give me a few

[Rotary Ninja]

Please forgive the choppyness of this video. I have no idea how to use Camtasia.

 

[Rotary Ninja]

Anyone have any ideas here?

[djstedman]

Have you tried selecting the rest of them, other than the stock model and toggling them off.. dont think you should have too .. but if you do do they go off and the stock model stay on?

 

If you dont have the stock model in there does it work correctly when the stock model isnt in the mix?

[Rotary Ninja]

It's flakey at best no matter what I have selected when I click either toggle. Always when I click either one a bunch of toolpaths that I do not have selected will toggle on. It has always been this way since I can remember. That is why I don't use it.

[djstedman]

Might seem like a unrelated question, but whats your graphics card, and do you have the best drivers for it..

 

Is there another computer you can try to check if it happens on that as well? Cause this doesn't happen on my machine..

 

Not sure if its a setting or a graphics issue, but yeah I can toggle the stock model on and off without it changing all the other toolpaths.

[Rotary Ninja]

If I do this same process, and click a different toolpath to select it, then click the stock model toolpath again to select it THEN toggle display everything works just fine. But if I create a stock model toolpath and immediately click the toggle button after it regenerates I have this problem. It works just like this on 3 PC's here, and my PC at home.

 

I think I kind of have it figured out. Sometimes when I create a toolpath and try to go back into it to change something it won't let me open the parameters until I select a different toolpath first. Have you ever noticed that? I have brought this up to people here at work and they notice the same thing happening, but I bet most people have never noticed this. So I don't think I'm going crazy just yet.

[djstedman]

This is really bizarre .. I just tried it in X6 MU2 and I cannot replicate it.. im wondering if its possible it isnt a problem in mu2 .. that would be odd though since supposedly mu3 was mainly for translators and things

[Rotary Ninja]

You can see it in the crappy video I made right? I create the stock model toolpath then as soon as it displays the model I toggle the display button and a bunch of unselected toolpaths show up.

[djstedman]

Yeah I can see it.. its really weird.. and it doesn't do anything like that on my system.. I even tried making a stock model and then regen and then toggle without selecting any other toolpath..

 

I know I use openGL and have hardware acceleration turned off for video settings .. I know in the past with a different system having hardware acceleration turned on in the config caused some bizaree stuff to happen. Maybe try that to rule it out..??

[Rotary Ninja]

Before you create the stock model toolpath make sure your setting for "repaint toolpath" is unchecked in your config in the toolpaths section. Then tell me if you get anything different.

[djstedman]

Well I just tried it.. I still dont get randomly appearing toolpaths.. but I can confirm that 'repaint toolpath' does indeed get checked to on as soon as you toggle the stock model on and off

 

This actually seems to happen no matter what toolpath you choose.. when you hit 'toggle display on selected operations' button the 'repaint toolpath' checkbox in the config goes back to being checked.

 

On my system this doesnt seem to make any difference.. but it still doesnt explain why on yours with only one operation selected you get a bunch of other toolpaths randomly displaying.. that still doesn't happen for me..