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Problems with ribbon

danmic7JH66 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 03:24:55 GMT

So I have accepted the removal of toolbars in favor of ribbons (lame). I'm having a minor annoyance though and I'm wondering if there is a work around.

I have a bunch of macros I use which pause for user input. When my macro pauses for user input it switches the ribbon tab back to the "home" tab. Is there a command I can put at the end of my macro to go back to the tab I want?

example

MODE WORKPLANE_CREATE ; INTERACTIVE BLOCK
MACRO PAUSE "SET WORKPLANE AND PRESS RESUME"
ACTIVATE WORKPLANE "1"
MODE WORKPLANE_EDIT START "1"
MODE WORKPLANE_EDIT SWAP_AXES
MACRO PAUSE "SET WORKPLANE AND PRESS RESUME"
MODE WORKPLANE_EDIT FINISH ACCEPT

changes the view from...

to...

Also, is there a way to hide tabs or even rearrange them? There's a lot of tabs that are a little redundant for me (everything is keyboard shortcuts) and I like to have as big of a viewing area as possible. Here's what my 2017 powermill looks like.

Ultimately, I'd like to get as close to that as I possibly can.

As always, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

Re: Problems with ribbon

iamcdn79 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 11:45:17 GMT

@danmic7JH66 I am in the same boat as you when using the macro pause. I have a trimming macro that I use which has the macro pause in it and I do find it a pain that it always goes back to the home tab.

I don't think there is an option currently to stop it going back to the home tab but hope there will be one in the future with an update. My current work around right now is to put that macro icon into the Quick Access Toolbar of the Ribbon.

Re: Problems with ribbon

NanchenO — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:18:52 GMT

I made a custom ribbon with all my macros. This could solve your problems, because I had no issues with macros pause for the moment.

Olivier

Re: Problems with ribbon

iamcdn79 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:32:29 GMT

@NanchenO wrote:

I made a custom ribbon with all my macros.

Olivier

How do you do that?

Re: Problems with ribbon

NanchenO — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 14:50:52 GMT

Well, ist is actually a custom tab: Right click on the ribbon, customize the ribbon, add a new tab and put your macros into it.

Olivier

Re: Problems with ribbon

iamcdn79 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:03:08 GMT

I have already done that. I created a tab called 'Main Custom Toolbar' and put my trimming macro that has a macro pause in it. Every time I run it goes back to the 'Home' tab and then I have to click on my 'Main Custom Toolbar' tab to run the trimming macro again. What I have done to avoid doing that every time is put it into the Quick Access Toolbar. See video

Trimming Macro video

Re: Problems with ribbon

NanchenO — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 15:15:00 GMT

In that case, it seems to be the only solution

Since ribbon actions are not listed in the command windows, no way to reactivate the right tab within the macro.

Olivier

Re: Problems with ribbon

a1moldmaker — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 16:04:43 GMT

AutoDesk....why is this not part of powershape???????

Re: Problems with ribbon

M_Hennig — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 16:21:33 GMT

I am curious, why do you want to pause the trimming feature? Why not just ope the trim feature and trim away without the message always popping up.

Re: Problems with ribbon

iamcdn79 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 16:30:13 GMT

I need the macro pause so it allows me to just use 1 macro file instead of 2. Without the macro pause the macro has to be done using two different macros, 1 for creating the boundary and another to ask me if I want to keep the inside or outside of the boundary.

Re: Problems with ribbon

M_Hennig — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 16:44:18 GMT

I guess everyone has their favorite ways with what works, when I watch your video there seems to be allot of clicking and windows popping up.I hit the trim button, make the polygon, hit accept with the form staying open. I don't know how a macro could make it easier than that.?

Re: Problems with ribbon

iamcdn79 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:22:19 GMT

That trimming macro was created years ago to have an undo button before there was an undo with the default trimming option.

Also, my trimming macro allows me to create multiple boundaries to trim multiple areas of a toolpath in one shot, mirror, rotate, bezier curves (for a smooth trimmed toolpath) etc. It's a lot more powerful than the default trimming option

Re: Problems with ribbon

dsmits — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:08:00 GMT

FORM RIBBON TAB HOME

FORM RIBBON TAB VIEW

for custom ribbon change the number for its location

FORM RIBBON TAB UICATEGORY1

Re: Problems with ribbon

iamcdn79 — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 18:30:29 GMT

@dsmits Nice find!

But

FORM RIBBON TAB UICATEGORY1

Goes to my second created tab not the first.

I tried

FORM RIBBON TAB UICATEGORY0

but it does not do anything for that one

Re: Problems with ribbon

a1moldmaker — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:02:18 GMT

M.Hennig

i want to be able to make a tab to run macros from in powershape

Re: Problems with ribbon

iamcdn79 — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:58:44 GMT

Found it! To have it move to the very first user defined tab created it is

FORM RIBBON TAB UICATEGORY

Adding a 1 will jump to the second created tab and 2 will jump to the third and so on

Re: Problems with ribbon

danmic7JH66 — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:09:05 GMT

This is a problem I was also running into. Why isn't there a macro tab in powershape?

Re: Problems with ribbon

rafael.sansao — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:39:59 GMT

Hello,

The command below shows the HOME tab. Any ideas how to show the "File" tab?

FORM RIBBON TAB HOME

Re: Problems with ribbon

iamcdn79 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:31:10 GMT

FORM RIBBON BACKSTAGE OPEN

Re: Problems with ribbon

danmic7JH66 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 08:21:33 GMT

I miss toolbars...