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Tool Path Generation Status Bar

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:41:12 GMT

I’ve never claimed to be the sharpest tool in anyone’s shed, which is why I have so many questions, but things do occur to me from time to time which seem to be of some merit. One of these ideas happened today as I was stepping into one of my own CAM experimentations. I was using the same imported SW model I used when I came up with my last posted question. As I made various changes to an Adaptive Clearing opp the Tool Path Generation time changed dramatically. Not realizing the reason for the lack of a Tool Path display, I thought something was wrong, so I tried a variety of other opps in an attempt to figure out what I overlooked! All the while unaware of the fact the Tool Path was still generating. So, the thought of a “Tool Path Generation Status Bar“ came to me. Is this in the works or is it already available but I’m just not aware?

Rex

Re: Tool Path Generation Status Bar

jeff.pek — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:04:49 GMT

Hi Rex -

There's already the notion of a "status bar" for toolpath generation -- actually two:

1) In the browser -- we show the generation progress on the node for the operation;

2) In the Task Manager window -- see ribbon bar button. If this dialog is open, you'll see all tasks, including toolpath generation.

Jeff

Re: Tool Path Generation Status Bar

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:11:23 GMT

Cool! Thanks Jeff, i kinda figured there had to be a way to see this i
just don't see real good so it takes me a few tries at most new things
before I

i become aware of things.

That’ll do it, Rex

Re: Tool Path Generation Status Bar

rglissmann — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:55:18 GMT

What does it mean when it looks like this for a half hour? I want to generate a toolpath using pocket to cut the outside of this tree?