MC9 file history

[mmetzinger]

So, good morning.

 

Is there a way to view a log file or something like that that will allow me to see the history of a specific MC9 file? I am trying to track down the differences between 2 very LARGE files that seem to be exactly the same, except for the name. I want to see if the later dated file is a copy of the earlier dated file that was renamed, and if so, who modified it and when. Thanks

[cadist]

Hi as far as I am aware this kind of record making is not done by mastercam. But there are softwares available on the net which shows when a file was modified and as under which login.

Well you can search the net. good luck

and good night

[mats_asson]

Maybe you could try to post gcode from both files and then do a compare in cimco edit. It has a very good compare function that I use a lot in cases like this.

 

Mats

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

Camaix Project Mgr.

 

http://www.camaix.com/English/indexeng.htm

 

Mike Mattera

[Lathe-Mill]

+1 cimco compares files pretty good

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

MMetzinger,

 

If you don't mind sending the 2 files, I bet I can probably get you some history information.

 

ProductDevelopmentGuy

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_Pete !______________

If you don't mind sending the 2 files, I bet I can probably get you some history information.

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That`s very interesting !

 

Iskander teh when I looked over Mastercam MC9 file last time ?!?

 

you mean you produce something similar to this and compare two files ?!?

 

A little abstract example

code:

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 C:CNC..............BASISREARINSERT.MC9

 

cur_ent_idn: 2847, add_ent_idn: 1

 

ent# id xxxx id eptr tprefs op_idn time stamp

 

2 A_ID 117899296 2:0 2636906515 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

13 A_ID 117899484 2:0 3229302864 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

16 A_ID 117899672 2:0 3229302864 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

24 A_ID 117899860 2:0 862011472 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

25 A_ID 117900048 2:0 862011472 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

26 A_ID 117900236 2:0 862011472 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

30 A_ID 117900424 2:0 862011472 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

34 A_ID 117900612 2:0 862011472 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

56 A_ID 117900800 2:0 474464325 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

64 A_ID 117900988 2:0 1379385413 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

66 A_ID 117901176 2:0 1379385413 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

69 A_ID 117901364 2:0 209240133 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

70 A_ID 117901552 2:0 209240133 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

88 A_ID 117901740 2:0 3494527045 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

89 A_ID 117901928 2:0 3494527045 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

120 A_ID 117902116 2:0 1887879237 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

148 A_ID 117902304 2:0 2384019536 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

155 A_ID 117902492 2:0 2907127888 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

175 A_ID 117902680 2:0 3638345808 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

176 A_ID 117902868 2:0 3638345808 Thu Mar 18 15:50:04 2004

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code:

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***** GROUPS *****

IDN NAME PARENT TYPE N_ENTS

2 cd 0 OPERATION 2

 

ent# id xxxx id eptr refs op_idn time stamp

 

2571 ASSOC_ID OP_ID 118107476 0:0 0 Fri Mar 19 09:06:12 2004

2572 ASSOC_ID OP_ID 118111464 0:0 0 Fri Mar 19 09:06:12 2004

 

3 drilling 0 OPERATION 2

 

ent# id xxxx id eptr refs op_idn time stamp

 

2574 ASSOC_ID OP_ID 118116616 0:0 0 Fri Mar 19 09:06:12 2004

2576 ASSOC_ID OP_ID 118121768 0:0 0 Fri Mar 19 09:06:12 2004

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Just curious

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For those who is interested in this I used

CNTRL+ALT+Shift double right click on grey area of operation manager and selected function :::>

Display geometry dump file

 

HF

HTH

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BTW you can use Cimco edit File compare functions

HTH

[Camfun]

Good Trick Iskander.

 

Thanks!

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

Pete I think he means history like "where did this file come from and what did I do with it last".

 

Are you thinking history like "contents of the feature list/histort tree".

 

So mmetzenger: What do you actually want to compare? Do you want to know if the surfaces are the same? What you did last to the file?

 

If you want to compare surfaces (Camaix has a utility for that also) you can import the file, change the colors, import the other file and shade it. If there's major differences you should see it.

 

Mike Mattera

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

Mike,

That's what I meant too. ("Where did this file come from & what did I do with it last").

 

We have our ways.....

 

Pete

 

P.S. MMetzinger: you can e-mail the file(s) to [email protected]

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I'm thinking this is a job for the "BigDump"! No, No, No, not that anything but the Big Dump!!!

 

Matt open each file, go to the Operations Manager. Press Ctrl + Shift and double right click in the grey area below the buttons on the Ops Manager. Select "Display Geometry Dump File". Then a box will pop up that will ask you if you want to delete all non toolpath referenced geometry. Select No. If you get any messages about duplicate entities, don't delete them. NOw a file called "bigdump.txt will be created and display. Save this file under another name. Then do this for the other file. Now fire up Cimco Editor, and do a file compare between the two files and you shoudl be able to see the differences.

 

HTH

 

James teh stealing Pete's Thunder...

[mmetzinger]

Thanks everyone.

 

What I want to do is to see if the later dated file is a renamed copy of the earllier dated file, and if there have been any modofications made. As I said, they are EXACTLY the smae sized files, so I believe there have been no mods, but i need to know for sure.

 

Not to bring up the past (my wife tells me I am GREAT at this), but when I used to program UG, it has a nice feature called part history. It will give you a printout of everytime the file was accessed, if it was renamed form a previous file, what version it was created in, when it was brought up to the next version, who accessed it, on what day, at what time, blah, blah, blah. It helped some times, so this is where I am coming from. I am not bashing anything here, just wanting to be able to do the same thing, or similar in MC

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

With my method you will be able to compare them. Entity by entity, operation by operation, time/datestamp by time/datestamp. Try it out. You'll see. Granted it's not exactly a pushbutton solution but it easy to do.

 

JM2C

[mmetzinger]

Thanks so much, I will try that out ASAP

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

You're welcome. Say hello to James G. for me. He does not duck in here too often.

[mats_asson]

Cimco:s file compare is a great utility. Often when I'm not absolutely sure if I've done any editing in my machines I load both versions in cimco and do a compare. Often I find a little M0 or something else that I forgot I put in. Helps to keep my stored programs correct.

 

Mats