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Tools ouside of folder

jsweatherbie — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:06:33 GMT

Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to get tools outside of folder.

When I program on powermill I "remove from folder" each cutter I use and I'm trying to just gather the ones outside of the folder

In this picture you can see my main tooling folder And then the tools outside of it all .

In a macro I'm trying to gather those tools and only those tools. I'm not trying to gather everything in "1600-TOOLING"

icse — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:22:28 GMT

I'm currently on the go so i could not test it in Powermill...

but you could do something like this:

entity list $tools = filter(folder('tool'), 'dirname(pathname(this)) == "Tool"')

Tested it today, works now 😉

jsweatherbie — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:52:43 GMT

Yes sir!
Works as it should.
Normally you get it spot on! Thank you!!!

jsweatherbie — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 06:34:27 GMT

Is this able to have a diameter sort ?

icse — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 07:43:43 GMT

try this:

entity list $tools = sort(folder('tool'),'Diameter')

jsweatherbie — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:03:42 GMT

I meant for what you had before like is it able to have a sort added to it like....

entity list $mytools = reverse(sort(filter(folder('tool'), 'dirname(pathname(this)) == "Tool"'), 'diameter')))

I doubt that actually works but you can see where I'm trying to go lol

icse — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 09:01:03 GMT

I think you got a ')' to much at the end.

This should work:

entity list $mytools = reverse(sort(filter(folder('tool'), 'dirname(pathname(this)) == "Tool"'),'diameter'))

jsweatherbie — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 01:15:14 GMT

I did haha I have troubles with the modifiers and what goes next