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Macro help Powermill

kingrazz — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:41:09 GMT

Hi all,

Hope this is in the correct place.

I have a small problem, new here so don’t judge .

I want to create a macro that edits the selected program, activates ‘clockwise’ and then calculates.

I have tried using the record macro feature but this only works on one toolpath because of its name example;

EDIT TOOLPATH “001” RECYCLE

EDIT DRILL CLOCKWISE ON

EDIT TOOLPATH “001” CALCULATE

Then when I try to do this for 002 programs and so on it goes back to 001 obviously.

Ive tried replacing “001” with $selected_toolpath and $tp.name but get error message these toolpaths don’t exist.

thanks

Re: Macro help Powermill

Sean571 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:41:55 GMT

Are you trying to do this for each toolpath in an NC program, a toolpath folder, Setup, all toolpaths, or only selected toolpaths? I can help you get this to loop over the toolpaths you want, but depending on which toolpaths you want to loop over the code will look differently.

for example if you want only selected toolpaths you could do something like this:

// loop through selected toolpaths in the explorer foreach tp in explorer_selected_entities() { // Skip toolpaths that don't have the clockwise parameter if NOT active($tp.drill.clockwise) { continue } // Skip toolpaths that are already set to clockwise if $tp.drill.clockwise == 1 { continue } // Change the parameter and calculate the toolpath activate Toolpath $tp.name EDIT DRILL CLOCKWISE ON EDIT TOOLPATH $tp.name REAPPLYFROMGUI EDIT TOOLPATH $tp.name CALCULATE }

Re: Macro help Powermill

CGBenner — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:40:09 GMT

@kingrazz

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Re: Macro help Powermill

kingrazz — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:12:24 GMT

Unfortunately I didn’t get round to using/trying it.
I will try and test it out Monday and report back, thanks for everyone’s time.