Is there a way to log the computation time for toolpaths?

[stevepresley]

I’m doing some consulting for a friend’s CNC shop, we’re trying to determine what hardware upgrades to do to a PC in their shop, so I’m trying to compare the compute times for a scallop finishing toolpath on my PC at home and the PC that their prior IT guy built for them.

I've found the Task Manager under the Manage menu, which gives me a count-up timer of how many seconds it takes for a toolpath to compute, but once the task is complete, it falls off of the list unless it fails.  I've been using SnagIt to record a video of the Task Manager and scroll back through the video to figure it out. I'd love to be able to flip a switch somewhere that would output the compute task info to a log file.

Ideally, I'd also like to be able to share a similar "test" file with other folks, have them run the compilation and report back with the compute times and their processor, RAM, primary storage and Video card specs to compile a database and form hardware recommendations off of that. 

Appreciate any ideas that anyone could provide - may need to cross-post to the API forum as well if we don't get a solution here.

Cheers!

Steve

[seth.madore]

Right click on the toolpath and select "Show Log"

Gives this:

[stevepresley]

Awesome, I hadn't seen that tidbit.. is that log saved somewhere on disk that I could crack each one open and search for that text?

I'm basically trying to automate this (sort of like the HSM performance tool that doesn't seem to be supported any longer).. download the f3d file, then run my "data grabber" EXE, which essentially would clone the Setup with my baselines, run the Generation step on setup2, gather the compile times and system info, then give them a summary of that in notepad that then could just be copied and pasted into an email. 

[DarthBane55]

Uncheck auto-remove in that task manager (right click on the task manager window).

[Anonymous]

I wasn't getting that pop-up menu for some reason. I restarted fusion and it was there.  Thanks so much!