Coolant on and off

[RObert TImby]

Hello All,

 

Is there a toggle or switch for me to put so I can turn on the coolant short cut in the operation manager? I know in X6 there it is in the individual toolpaths just under the toolpath but not on X7.

 

Thanks

 

Rob

[Rotary Ninja]

Right-click in the operation manager window and select "Display Options"

[TK-32™]

I don't know man, I don't see the option to turn it on

[RayD]

its not in X7.. oversight I think

 

I never had it turned on in X6 as I never use coolant codes in mastercam, I add them on the control.. less coolant showers that way

[Rotary Ninja]

Oh. I just assumed it was there (replied from home). My bad.

[Rotary Ninja]

its not in X7.. oversight I think

 

I never had it turned on in X6 as I never use coolant codes in mastercam, I add them on the control.. less coolant showers that way

 

Haas has this nice little setting COOLANT>>>IGNORE.

[Newbeeee™]

I've seen block skip used..../M8

Could just keep the door shut

[Guest MTB Technical Services]

This may have been done by design.

I believe changes were made to the operation manager related to implementation and support for the new MT product.

 

Coolant strategies in the MT Product are actually set in the Sync Manager for each Op, not the MC Ops Manager.

These strategies are defined for each *.Machine file.

[gms1]

Heck they didn't even work with the xstyle coolant commands anyway in X6

[RObert TImby]

I've seen block skip used..../M8

Could just keep the door shut

 

I do the block skip here. It's great when you are proofing out lathe programs.

[Newbeeee™]

I REALLY wouldn't ever ever ever run a CNC lathe with the door open.

Lathes just want to throw things at you and kill you. Centrifugal forces are a nasty thing, especially if the G50 isn't set sensibly...

[djstedman]

OMG.. just realized this isnt there.. seriously.. so now we gotta open 18 billion freaking windows again to verify coolant settings on all the ops for a part.. what a huge step backward.. I really hope this was not intentional and that it will be re-added in a MU or something.. there is already far too much opening and closing windows to verify settings .. the ability to see coolant settings was one of the best improvements on that front in a long time..

[Newbeeee™]

IF it isn't going to be re-implemented, run x+.

Very quick and great for telling you things like coolant settings etc

[BrianP.]

I just set coolat on by default in my operations defaults. This way I do not always have to be looking to see if its on or off. There are only a few times I do not want coolant turned on where I am at.

[Rotary Ninja]

OMG.. just realized this isnt there.. seriously.. so now we gotta open 18 billion freaking windows again to verify coolant settings on all the ops for a part.. what a huge step backward.. I really hope this was not intentional and that it will be re-added in a MU or something.. there is already far too much opening and closing windows to verify settings .. the ability to see coolant settings was one of the best improvements on that front in a long time..

 

Select the operations you want to change the coolant for. 10, 20, or all of them. Right-click the selected operations and select "Edit selected operations". There is a coolant setting there that will affect all selected operations.

[djstedman]

Yeah I realize I can change the settiings using 'edit selected operations', however its not the changing them that I miss the ability of.. its that before you could just look at the ops in op manager and see if the coolant was on or not.. thats what I meant .. and sure I could use edit selected ops to turn ALL coolant on ALL ops on I suppose.. but call my picky.. I liked being able to look at them in the operations manager and know if it was on or not..

[TK-32™]

Sign me up on the list that wants the coolant icon back

[Chris Rizzo]

FYI-

 

In X6 the coolant icon was correct only if you were using legacy posts/mmd with "old coolant" style. flood/mist/thru. Otherwise using current mmds with modern coolant controls the icon would not display properly. It was too much to fix apparently, so they just dropped it.

 

Better a function not there, than one there that only occasional worked.

[djstedman]

boolean oldstyle_coolant;

 

if (oldstyle_coolant) {

 

##DISPLAY THE ICON!!!

 

}

 

Just Saying..

[Guest MTB Technical Services]

boolean oldstyle_coolant;

 

if (oldstyle_coolant) {

 

##DISPLAY THE ICON!!!

 

}

 

Just Saying..

 

You can always use Magic.

 

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

IIRC, I think CNC removed it

[metalmansteve]

I agree.....this seems to be a step backwards.

[TK-32™]

Maybe they'll put it back in X8

[Chris Rizzo]

Coolant icon didn't work (at all) properly in x6 with new mmd/posts. Therefor it is removed. Apparently rather complicated to get it function properly.

 

A semi-broken feature should never be in any software.

[gcode]

This was a really good idea that never worked properly.

I wish they could have fixed it and kept it.. but it's gone.. and

as far as I know, it's not coming back