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Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 04:07:44 GMT

Hi guys,
I would really appreciate if you could help with me the following macro question:
How can i save whats in boundary folder such as supportpins type *pic into an external temp folder with the same type *pic

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

rafael.sansao — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:39:50 GMT

STRING $TEMP_FOLDER = "C:\Temp" //Change this
FOREACH $Boun IN FOLDER('BOUNDARY') {
	STRING $FILE_SAVE = $TEMP_FOLDER + "\" + $Boun.Name + ".pic"
	KEEP BOUNDARY $Boun.Name $FILE_SAVE YES
}

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

rafael.sansao — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:13:02 GMT

With some additional checks ...

STRING $TEMP_FOLDER = "C:\Temp" //Change this
FOREACH $Boun IN FOLDER('BOUNDARY') {
	IF $Boun.Computed == true AND segments($Boun) > 0 {
		STRING $FILE_SAVE = $TEMP_FOLDER + "\" + $Boun.Name + ".pic"
		KEEP BOUNDARY $Boun.Name $FILE_SAVE YES
	}
}

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 06:19:38 GMT

Thank you Rafael. I deeply appreciate it, but when I run the macro Powermill gives me an error saying, "Unsupported Powermill command and Feature: STRING

@rafael.sansao wrote:

STRING $TEMP_FOLDER = "C:\Temp" //Change this
FOREACH $Boun IN FOLDER('BOUNDARY') {
	STRING $FILE_SAVE = $TEMP_FOLDER + "\" + $Boun.Name + ".pic"
	KEEP BOUNDARY $Boun.Name $FILE_SAVE YES
}

$TEMP_FOLDER = "C:\Temp"

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

rafael.sansao — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:52:04 GMT

Save the attached macro and run it. If the Powermill returns an error, take a print and send it here.

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:14:01 GMT

I am currently using PowerMill 2010 and this is the error I'm getting below:

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 12:19:12 GMT

This is the error given by PowerMill.

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

rafael.sansao — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:08:28 GMT

Most macro commands do not work in version 10.
If you want to take advantage of the macros, you'll need to migrate to a newer Powermill version (2016 or later)

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Jul 2018 04:37:57 GMT

Oh, okay, I had a feeling it might be due to my version of PowerMill 2010. Thank you again so much for your help. I deeply appreciate it.

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:28:11 GMT

@Anonymous

Have you tried removing the "$" from the line:

STRING $TEMP_FOLDER = "C:\temp"

Generally, when you first declare (create) a STRING VARIABLE....you don't need the $ in front of the name of the variable.

In this case, the variable is called: TEMP_FOLDER

However, anytime after this initial variable declaration, when you need to use or modify the variable's content...you must have the "$" in front of it's name.

Anyway, worth a try...but as @rafael.sansao mentioned...perhaps it's just not possible in Pmill 2010

Good luck,

Glen

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

lloyd.patton — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:49:32 GMT

Try removing the trailing //comment

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:59:04 GMT

Yes I tried it without the $ and it gave me the same error.

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:08:32 GMT

Also I removed the //comment and it still gave me the same error. However, this code below works for Supportpin_0_1 boundary but then gives me the same error. I need it to run for all the supportpin boundaries. How can I run the macro once so it goes thru each of the boundaries and saves it in the temp folder?

EXPLORER SELECT Boundary 'SUPPORTPIN_0_1' NEW

KEEP BOUNDARY 'SUPPORTPIN_0_1' FILESAVE

c:\TEMP\SUPPORTPIN_0_1.PIC

EXPLORER SELECT Boundary 'SUPPORTPIN_0_1' NEW

KEEP BOUNDARY 'SUPPORTPIN_0_1' FILESAVE

c:\TEMP\SUPPORTPIN_0_1.PIC

EXPLORER SELECT Boundary 'SUPPORTPIN_0_2' NEW

KEEP BOUNDARY 'SUPPORTPIN_0_2' FILESAVE

c:\TEMP\SUPPORTPIN_0_2.PIC

EXPLORER SELECT Boundary 'SUPPORTPIN_0_2' NEW

KEEP BOUNDARY 'SUPPORTPIN_0_2' FILESAVE

c:\TEMP\SUPPORTPIN_0_2.PIC

EXPLORER SELECT Boundary 'SUPPORTPIN_0_3' NEW

KEEP BOUNDARY 'SUPPORTPIN_0_3' FILESAVE

c:\TEMP\SUPPORTPIN_0_3.PIC

EXPLORER SELECT Boundary 'SUPPORTPIN_0_3' NEW

KEEP BOUNDARY 'SUPPORTPIN_0_3' FILESAVE

c:\TEMP\SUPPORTPIN_0_3.PIC

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

rafael.sansao — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:11:20 GMT

That's not possible. The logic programming language was inserted into the Powermill in the 2012 R2 version.

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:21:41 GMT

Referring to Powermill 2010 question: I guess I have to sign up with Scribd to access the entire guideline.

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:25:18 GMT

I know there is a way of saving the boundaries in PowerMill 2010 because there are other macros that I run that function perfectly.

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:22:19 GMT

I know this code below works for saving supportpin into the temp folder, but for some reason it doesn't overwrite the old supportpin.pic files. How can I delete the old SUPPORTPIN.PIC files, so the new SUPPORTPIN.PIC files saves into the temp folder.

EXPLORER SELECT Boundary "Boundary\SUPPORTPIN_0_1" NEW

ACTIVATE Boundary "SUPPORTPIN_0_1"
EXPLORER SELECT Boundary "Boundary\SUPPORTPIN_0_1" NEW

KEEP Boundary "SUPPORTPIN_0_1" FILESAVE

"C:\temp\SUPPORTPIN_0_1.PIC"

EXPLORER SELECT Boundary "Boundary\SUPPORTPIN_0_2" NEW

ACTIVATE Boundary "SUPPORTPIN_0_2"
EXPLORER SELECT Boundary "Boundary\SUPPORTPIN_0_2" NEW

KEEP Boundary "SUPPORTPIN_0_2" FILESAVE

"C:\temp\SUPPORTPIN_0_2.PIC" //and so on for the rest of supportpin 3, 4, 5 ,6...

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

urizenYHS3W — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:32:48 GMT

You don't need the EXPLORER SELECT commands, you don't need the FILESAVE, and you don't need to activate the boundary each time. You specify YES to the potential OVERWRITE query.

KEEP Boundary "SUPPORTPIN_0_1" "C:\temp\SUPPORTPIN_0_1.PIC" YES
KEEP Boundary "SUPPORTPIN_0_2" "C:\temp\SUPPORTPIN_0_2.PIC"  YES

You can delete files and directories with

DELETE FILE <filepath>
DELETE DIRECTORY <dirpath>

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 10:42:23 GMT

Thank you so much. It worked.

Re: Macro for saving boundary to temp folder

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 06:59:19 GMT

Hi guys,

I wanted to know is there a way I can delete curves within a boundary and then save that boundary to an external temp folder using PowerMill?