Enhancement Idea! Edit ALL work offsets

[Chris Rizzo]

In View Manager, wouldn't it be great to select a bunch of views at once and change the offset?

 

 

Also not get this error, (which happens when posting as well). The view manager needs some love.

[Rotary Ninja]

I agree. It is a pain to change the offset on multiple views, especially if they have toolpaths associated with them. Change the offset, hit ENTER twenty times, change the next offset, hit ENTER twenty times etc.

 

And yeah, that warning is an annoyance. I rarely program a rotary job with more than one offset.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Another good one is to add steep/shallow to the change common parameters page.

 

you bring in a tool path group from a different file that is in a different

WCS and one by one you have to change them.

[sir Camalot]

I would also like to see this as an enhancement. Please add my vote for the change.

[sir Camalot]

I would also like to see this as an enhancement. Please add my vote for the change.

[Manuel0822]

I would also like to see this as an enhancement. Please add my vote for the change.

 

Another vote over here!!

 

Tia

[Newbeeee™]

Guys,

For any enhancement please submit to QC (adding a link to the relevant post on this site).

The more requests cnc get the better. Just because an idea gets everyone +1ing on here doesn't mean cnc acts because they only work on submissions to QC (unfortunately).

[Chris Rizzo]

Yes that was my though, send cnc a link to this thread, as compared to having everyone submit an email.

[Newbeeee™]

Chris,

I was told via email from QC that not many people at CNC have access or actually visit/read what's here.

If that's the case (and I do find it amazing if true as this forum is THE mcam forum) then a separate email/request is what the product managers use to determine if a feature should be added.

One email with a 1000 people here saying +1, won't have anywhere near the sway of 1000 people bombarding cnc with the same request.

That is my understanding, but perhaps *someone* from cnc could confirm/deny/or say nothing...

[Thee Rickster ™]

Yes newbie you are correct

Enhancements can a long time to impliment.

There is an enhancement forum that is supposed to be monitored by CNC.

[Guest]

I just wonder how a feature that is not in all operations is going to get handled on the "Edit Common Parameters" when those parameters are not common to all paths?

 

The WCS one would be nice, steep and shallow, doesn't seem like it fits the niche of common parameters

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

I think Edit Common should have just about all parameters in it. If it doesn't apply to a given op it should be ignored for that op.

[Newbeeee™]

Yes newbie you are correct

Enhancements can a long time to impliment.

There is an enhancement forum that is supposed to be monitored by CNC.

Rick,

By memory the email/reply I got from QC said that it wasn't specifically monitored.

And to be honest, on the enhancement forum there is a lot of really good ideas that make sense and would save everyone time.

It shouldn't take a long time to implement good ideas.....or to re-phrase, I personally think more priority should be given to them.

[rogkick]

On the topic of editing WCS.....How does one edit an existing WCS...say for example I wanted to rotate it slightly, seems I have to create a new one?

Probably just my ignorance, but I would like to know if there is a better way.

[Guest]

Nope, you make a new one, unless when you define it you created it using the geometry method, then you can transform your geometry and it will move the WCS

[Jrygus]

If you are going to make changes to the View Manager. Please make it doackable as well, like the operations manager.

[Thee Rickster ™]

[steep and shallow, doesn't seem like it fits the niche of common parameters

 

I guess it is a pet peeve that plagues me and ppl who program exclusively in 3-d paths

Very time consuming.

[GoetzInd]

If you are going to make changes to the View Manager. Please make it doackable as well, like the operations manager.

 

+1. People have suggested that for a while. Would be really nice.

 

Mike

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

Nope, you make a new one, unless when you define it you created it using the geometry method, then you can transform your geometry and it will move the WCS

 

This. I make a wireframe gnomon for each WCS I'm going to use. That way it comes out on the setup sheet, and if I move or rotate it everything will still match.

[rogkick]

@JParis

@Matthew

Thanks for the reply, Yeah, I figured that way, does it not seem strange that a WCS cannot be edited? Maybe like a Dynamic XForm type of dialog.

[Guest]

@JParis

@Matthew

Thanks for the reply, Yeah, I figured that way, does it not seem strange that a WCS cannot be edited? Maybe like a Dynamic XForm type of dialog.

 

I agree and I've always agreed with this, I am just pointing out what currently works