topic Re: Deleting a pattern in PowerMill Forum

Deleting a pattern

Daniel.Reister — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 22:42:06 GMT

So I have a session where all toolpaths using a pattern are invalidated, I activate and right click on a pattern and say unlock, I select all the components on the pattern and right click delete selected. The pattern components cannot be deleted even though the toolpaths referencing it are no longer valid and I used the unlock button. What causes this? Any way around it?

Re: Deleting a pattern

iamcdn79 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:26:17 GMT

The toolpath is still being referenced by that pattern even when unlocking it and uncalculated. You have to open the pattern toolpath that is using that pattern and switch it to none. Then you will be able to delete the pattern

Re: Deleting a pattern

psx2 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:23:17 GMT

hi,

this is a bug !!

i've reported it to autodesk for 5 years !!!😠😡😡

Re: Deleting a pattern

evo80 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:21:00 GMT

I wrote a macro to remove the Curve Definition from selected toolpaths.

Be aware that the selected toolpaths will be invalidated.

Hope it helps.

IF $powermill.Status.MultipleSelection.First OR $powermill.Status.MultipleSelection.Total == 0 { reset localvars STRING Strategy = 'null' DIALOGS MESSAGE OFF DIALOGS ERROR OFF GRAPHICS LOCK FOREACH $tp IN explorer_selected_entities() { ACTIVATE TOOLPATH $tp EDIT PAR 'Pattern' " " EDIT TOOLPATH ; REAPPLYFROMGUI YES } DEACTIVATE Toolpath DEACTIVATE TOOL UNDRAW TOOL ALL DIALOGS MESSAGE ON DIALOGS ERROR ON GRAPHICS UNLOCK

Re: Deleting a pattern

psx2 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 09:57:12 GMT

evo80 thank's for this macro but i would be very happy if autodesk solved the problem "well" and not with a macro !

Re: Deleting a pattern

Daniel.Reister — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:50:05 GMT

Thanks for sharing the macro. I was thinking about doing something like that. I will give it a try and see how it does for my application. I agree with psx2 though it seems like this is a bug that needs fixed. It should be editable as soon as the pattern is unlocked. Thanks for the help everyone.