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Required % of cutter consumption from total tool list time

malinsAM3TM — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 04:28:29 GMT

We are in die and mould business

We required various cutting tools to finish mould

Is there any option to get cutter consumption used in a particular power mill project

What is the total time used the particular tool used in a project as per feed given in a project

This is to analyze the cutter consumption trend

This would help to maintain cutting tool inventory

Regards

Nivrutti Mali

Godrej Tooling

Re: Required % of cutter consumption from total tool list time

ondrej.mikulec — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 05:03:09 GMT

INT LIST $toolsNumbers = extract(folder('Tool'), 'Number.Value') INT dummy = remove_duplicates($toolsNumbers) FOREACH $toolNumber IN toolsNumbers { REAL $cuttingTimeSum = 0 FOREACH $tp IN folder("Toolpath") { IF $tp.Tool.Number.Value == $toolNumber { $cuttingTimeSum = $cuttingTimeSum + $tp.Statistics.TotalTime } } PRINT ${"Tool Number: " + $toolNumber + " Total Time: " + $time_to_string($cuttingTimeSum)} }

Re: Required % of cutter consumption from total tool list time

danmic7JH66 — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 15:27:39 GMT

I was playing around with this code a little and i went about it a bit differently.

Your code definitely got me on the right path but I couldn't get any values to actually output. All tools had 0.0 output simulation time for some reason. I changed it up a bit and went this route and it gave me (not the OP) the results I was hoping to get. Maybe it'll be useful for someone else. I know it could be made more efficient, I just typed it out real quick and tested.

string list tool_ = {} foreach t in folder ('tool') { int add1 = add_last($tool_, $t.name ) } foreach tl in $tool_ { real tp_time = '0' string msg = "" foreach tp in folder('toolpath') { if $tp.tool.name == $tl { $tp_time = $tp_time + round($tp.Statistics.TotalTime, 3) } } $msg = "Tool " + $tl + " total simulation time : " + $tp_time print $msg }

Re: Required % of cutter consumption from total tool list time

malinsAM3TM — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 05:15:55 GMT

Hello Sir

I run this macro

but I am not getting time as per tool diameter

It is showing only for 1st tool and that to in seconds

It would be helpful we get output in excel

I have attached ppt and project for your reference

regards

Nivrutti Mali