On 3/31/2022 at 10:13 PM, Bill Craven said:

Actually it is available.

under the SZ group in the xml file

 

The way to find this is to use the "secret handshake"  

I put the name chucky jaws in the field (something unique) 

and then ran the setup sheet, invoking the secret handshake,  by holding the Ctrl key down and then clicking on the green check icon.

You will be prompted if you want to deactivate the RPX Parser.  Answer: no

Then you will be prompted if you want to display messages.  Answer: no

The you will be prompted to Write all data to XML.   Answer: Yes

Using windows explorer go to the  directory shown below, select the latest XML file and drag it and drop it onto an open page in Google chrome.

Chrome will display all of the fields in the XML file.  

Use Ctrl-F to find the chuck jaw name that you entered (i searched for chucky.

From there you can use Active reports designer and embed that field into oone of your reports.

 

The reason that we use the secret handshake is: that Mastercam only gathers the data that are used in the RPX reports.  It leaves out a lot of information that it doesn't need.  The secret handshake forces Mastercam to write all data to the XML file.

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you very much for this Post. I'm like 5 months late reading this, so my apologies lol. I tried the exact thing you did in this post, and <CHUCK-LH-NAME> isn't in my XML report. I'm still on 2020, so maybe that is where my issue is. I ended up just typing all this info into machine comment. Would have rather more control using it the way you showed in your example though. Are you on a newer version of Mastercam than 2020?

1 hour ago, crazy^millman said:

Probably not there. Will have to send a request to QC to see about getting it added. To far past the 2023 Beta if not been added to get it added. Might be 2024 release before you will see it which will release in 2023. Yeah Mastercam is cool and being on the cutting edge of being hipster and dating things a year ahead. 

, guess I'll look into if it's in 2023 then. I can just enter what I need into a manual comment, but it would be nice to not have to add extra info.

Thanks for the Reply!!

Does anyone know if there is a way to get the chuck jaw name from MasterCam into the active reports template? I've tried looking through the XML tag list and searching through the Samples in my setup sheets folder, but I'm unable to find this field. I'll post a screenshot of what text I need.

Thanks!