Generating drill toolpaths is locking depth

[oihannah]

About done with a "hook" that allows me to pick drill points once and generate spot, drill, and tap cycles in one shot.  I have it all working except this last bit.

Currently copy drill points from first generated operation for the other two, but this is resulting in the locking of the depth field within Mastercam's toolpath manager window.  The values set via code are correct, but greyed out and always post as if the depth was Z0.

 

Have fiddled around quite a bit but I cannot get this solved.  I appreciate the time and advise.

[Mick George]

Can you share the project or some same code?

[oihannah]

I will asap, currently on mobile and the shop computers are local network only.  Thank you for the incredibly quick response

[oihannah]

Fresh eyes in the morning sorted it.  I was iterating over the list of drill points and adding them to the next operation.

Seems my error was adding them as references.  Creating new drill point objects using the ArcData or PointData from the points in the first operation cleared it right up.

 

Thanks again.

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

If you are just wanting to replicate the DrillPoints from one operation into another.
There is built in functionality to do this.
Below is a somewhat contrived example.
It copies all the points in the 1st operation into the 2nd operation, replacing the points in the target operation.
“CopyDrillPointsFromOp” is a member function of a DrillBasedOperation 
(since it only works with “point” type operations), 
so we need to do the casting of the Operation(s) to the DrillBasedOperation type.
 

bool result = false;
var drillOPs = Mastercam.Support.SearchManager.GetOperations(OperationType.Drill);

if (drillOPs.Length > 1)
 {
 bool replacePoints = true;
 result = ((DrillBasedOperation)drillOPs[1]).CopyDrillPointsFromOp((DrillBasedOperation)drillOPs[0], replacePoints);
 }

if (result)
 {
 result = drillOPs[1].Regenerate();
}

 

[eltklas]

I have been searching about this topic, I need change de number of drill list item. If it is the first index, change to the second  one or other. How can I access to that part of the drill operation data?

Sorry for my English

Thanks