topic Re: MACRO - remove nc item in PowerMill Forum

MACRO - remove nc item

TK.421 — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:38:39 GMT

i've made a list of toolpaths in nc program and want to remove the uncomputed toolpath. How?

FOREACH $ncP in FOLDER ('NCProgram') {
	ACTIVATE NCProgram $ncP.name
	STRING LIST tpNames = extract(entity('ncprogram','').nctoolpath, 'Name') 
	INT i = 0
	FOREACH name in tpNames {
		STRING ncTp = tpNames[$i]
		ACTIVATE TOOLPATH $ncTp
		IF entity('toolpath','').computed == 0 {
			//message info $i  gives correct item number
			EDIT NCPROGRAM ; REMOVE ITEM tpNames[$i]  errors here
			$i = $i + 1
		} ELSE {
			$i = $i + 1
		}

	}
}

Re: MACRO - remove nc item

5axes — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:42:39 GMT

For such type of question Think OLD FORUM ... https://manufacturing.autodesk.com/forums/forum.delcam.com/viewtopicfa6e.html?p=58166#p58166

STRING Name_NCProg = ''
STRING LIST Tl_list = {}
// build the expression
STRING $expr = "RootType=='nctoolpath'"

FOREACH ncP in FOLDER ('NCProgram') {
 $Name_NCProg=$ncp.name

 // get the list of toolpath (sorted in the NCProgram order)
 $Tl_list = extract(filter(components(entity('ncprogram', $Name_NCProg)), $expr), 'name')
 
  FOREACH ncTp in Tl_list {
 IF entity('toolpath',$ncTp).computed == 0 {
     EDIT NCPROGRAM $Name_NCProg TOOLPATH $ncTp DELETE
 }
 
 }
}

Re: MACRO - remove nc item

TK.421 — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 21:21:14 GMT

ok what did you put in the search bar on the old forum, because I searched a few key words on there and came up with the same two posts that had nothing to help here.

Thanks @5axes!

@Autodesk: BRING BACK THE OLD FORUMS!