TK@PSG You say it works at the beginning of a Mastercam session. Can you figure out, when it stops to work? Are you running other chooks in the background? Do you use HSM from Cimco? If yes then make sure you're using the last version else try to delete all hsm*.* from your chook folder. BC10146

Thanks betts. TK@PSG, try to clear all parameters, make an empty setup sheet. Than add one by one and check when it will not come up.

TK@PSG, it seems that your internet explorer is alrady open and minimized. Did you check that?

OK, I've fixed it. Please download it again and test it. The maximum characters are 750. This is limited by Mastercam.

No, it looks like a buffer overflow in ncdatasheet. I check it out.

Hi all, a new version of ncdatasheet is available. You can get it here. New: - calculation of drill cycle time - calculation of total time - manual entries will be diplayed in the comment field Any comments are welcome.

@BC10146 I'll look into it. @Westgate Hardwoods What are you running? The chook is designed to run under Mill V9.1.

quote: Günther I like the setup sheet but i just ran into an error on it or the programmer (me). If you drill and select incremental depth the setup sheet only finds the first drill location for the min Z. I did try the changing the Z-Min/Z-Max button from incl rpd moves to only fr moves. I dont know what that does but I do know that it did not fix the Z depth problem. fixed Download here

If you are using html output then go to print preview in your internet explorer and set your layout to landscape and reduce the margins. The columns will automatically resize to fit the page setup.

Well, at this time it's cold here, around -5° to 5° celsius. It's also snowing in some areas of Germany. So, you will need a warm jacket.

@betts Yes, that should be right. I have a german windows version.

@heavycut quote: Also problems with changing the Level or Color by moving the wheel over the menue field. Not sure how this works You need the latest version of mcutils for that. But I'm not sure if there is an english version available. Andreas made the translation for the first version of mcutils. quote: Im having problems with the Excel data output Where is the data sheet outputting to??? If you have exel installed, than exel will be executed with a new sheet. You can save it from there where you want. @datty Start mcutils with Alt+C or set it as start chook in your mastercam configuration. After starting mcutils you have toolbars in the operation manager as well as in the solid manager. Also you can use the wheel for dynamic rotation and pan. Scrolling over the color field will change the color, same with the level field, but as I said before this works only with the latest version of mcutils. The toolbars can be configured with a right click on the toolbars. Ncdatasheet can be started with mcutils as a button on the toolbar in the operation manager or with Alt+C. @crazy^millman please sent me an example.

@betts quote: Am I the retard here.......or how can I get more than two decimal places in tool dia and Z min.? Look at your Windows-System-Configuration-Country-Numbers. ---------------------------------------------------- @klingloui quote: where is the data sheet outputting to??? To the current nc path. You should find something like *.html, *.bmp, where * is the nc name. ---------------------------------------------------- @gail push quote: Still not having any luck with lathe. Any suggestions? Yes, It supports only Mill and HSM. Sorry. ---------------------------------------------------- @cmr quote: The new MC utils is great..data sheet is super too, however it won't output on op's that have posting off. Mainly used with transformations when posting the source is turned off. This is how it is designed, but perhaps I should make an option to set it on or off? greetings

Hi Speedy, you could get the feedrates with this code, code: dummy1:0 dummy2:0 dummy3:0 dummy4:0 dummy5:0 dummy6:0 dummy7:0 dummy8:0 dummy9:0 dummy10:0 frxy:0 frz:0 frretract:0 pparameter if prmcode=20004, dummy1=rpar(sparameter,13) but unfortunately Mastercam V9.1 don't save the feedrates for drilling tools, no matter what you set on the tool parameters page. It was working on previous versions.

quote: Gismo, sending WM_CLOSE to mastercam makes mastercam really unhappy, causes a access violation. Perhaps it was the way that i was getting the mastercam window, AfxGetmainWnd(). FindWindow(), a dated WIN32 function would get it, but it is not guarunteed. I appreciate your advice though, and I will try that again in some different ways. Use PostMessage instead of SendMessage and make sure you return immediately from your chook. BTW you can access the Mastercam main window with MainWnd. You have to declare MainWnd as extern in your header file. It's an undocumented variable I can mail you a little chook that closes MC.

quote: 4. I have not found a SDK function which will allow us to close mastercam. Try to send a WM_CLOSE message to the main window.

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It's not a big deal, but why don't you set the workoffset in Mastercam to 55,56... instead of 1,2... Think of other controls, they may not use G55, G56...

@James Gabel Try this setup.

@YPitou hmmm... could be a nice feature.

Bruce asked me for an option to make a larger screenshot. It's in now. Get the latest version of ncdatasheet here.

Try to delete all hsm stuff from your chooks folder.

@Chip-pan Thanks Chip-Pan @ctmJody Which OS is running on your computer? What is your Mastercam version? Do you use HSM from Cimco? If yes, which version?

Thanks Bruce