QuickParameters NET-hook for Mill and Router Operations

[Zaffin_D]

Hello eMastercam,

I've been working on a pet project that I think could be beneficial to some Mastercam users.  Quick Parameters is a NET-hook that consists of a single modeless window displaying a subset of the selected operation's parameters.

**Please note, this only works for operations that the NET-Hook API knows about.  This means that it will not work on lathe or wire operations.

To install, copy the files from the QuickParameters.zip archive attached to this post to the following locations;

• Copy 'Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.dll' to the Mastercam install directory, typically  'C:\Program Files\Mcam2019' 
• Copy 'GalaSoft.MvvmLight.dll', 'QuickParameters.dll', and 'QuickParameters.ft' to Mastercam's chook directory, typically  'C:\Program Files\Mcam2019\chooks' 

You can grab the source on my Githib.

A brief gif showing it's functionality.

 

Right-click to customize the display colors.

 

Feedback of any kind is always helpful.

QuickParameters.zip

[SlaveCam]

This will definitely come in useful. Not too many nethook examples around. Thanks for sharing.

[Zaffin_D]

I updated this based on some feedback, the latest install files can be found here.

[SlaveCam]

I think it's about time Mastercam started implementing plug-in architecture so that you could customize the GUI directly with your own dll's. Operations tree is the best (worst) example; I always find it outright messy and slow to use, being so congested with text the information gets easily lost in it. Even alternating background coloring of operations would help.