POST Log File - Where Is It?

[Anonymous]

I seem to be on a roll today - everything I try to do, I run face-first into a road block.  When I try to POST a Setup containing a threadmill operation, it creates an "nc.failed" file, which tells me to look at the "log file" to find out what the error is?  WHERE is the log file?  Under Solidworks/HSMXpress, the output file contains the error, if the POST was not successful.  Not the case with Fusion...

Regards,

Ray L.

[Steinwerks]

After mentioning HSMXpress I presume you're on Windows. Try this folder: C:\Users\*username*\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Autodesk Fusion 360\logs

Edit: also, for what it's worth, most of the post errors are still shown in the .nc.failed file.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I am using Win10.  That directory exists, but contains only a single log file, created way back in 2015....

Regards,

Ray L.

[Steinwerks]

Yes I found about five 360 directories around there, although none of them seem to contain post failure logs as best I can tell. I'll keep digging.

[Anonymous]

For the benefit of whoever gets stung by this next....  The CAM log file is written to somewhere down in c:\users\username\Appdata\Local\Temp\Fusion360CAM.  IF you check the "Open NC file in editor" option in the POST dialog, the log file will be opened in Brackets when the POST fails.  If you don't check that option, then you just get to scratch your head and wonder where in the world the log file is created.

One more CAM comment - Brackets is seriously lame, compared to the really nice NC editor that comes with HSMXpress.  PLEASE use that editor instead of brackets in Fusion!

Regards,

Ray L.

[jeff.pek]

You're welcome to configure Fusion to use the editor from HSMXpress if you like (and are on Windows). We don't deliver it with Fusion because there's no Mac version.

  Jeff

[Anonymous]

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@jeff.pek wrote:

You're welcome to configure Fusion to use the editor from HSMXpress if you like (and are on Windows). We don't deliver it with Fusion because there's no Mac version.

  Jeff

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How/where can the editor be configured?

Also, any idea where I can find POST documentation, specifically the tool.type enumeration (which is not the same as HSMXpress)?

Regards,

Ray L.

[Steinwerks]

You can change your editor by going to Preferences and looking in the CAM section under General:

I would add that in HSMWorks a thread mill is also a tool type of 38. It's new in both. Your post is very different from what I'm used to editing and I am not a JS guru so I'm not exactly sure why it's causing an error. Maybe @AchimN could be of assistance with your post.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the tip on the editor.

Yes, I figured out type 38 is a threadmill, but I'd really like to know the symbolic name for it.  All tool types are defined in an enum, but the only documentation I have on the enum is old, and does not contain threadmills.

My POST was failing because it encountered tool type 38, which it did not know how to handle, since when I wrote it, threadmills had to be implemented as FORM tools.  I have it working now with the 38 hard-coded, until I find out the correct enum symbol for the threadmill tool.  Once I figured out the (apparently) only easy way to view the log file was by checking the "open editor" checkbox in the POST dialog, it was easy to find, and work around, the POST failure.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

Ray L.

[Steinwerks]

Please see my latest reply in your other thread. A lot of this information is getting mixed into multiple threads making it difficult to follow, so I'd suggest trying to keep each thread to a single topic so they are more easily searchable by other users.