2018 User menu bug

[LasseFred]

where is the usermenu for ex. toolpaths?

[iamcdn79]

Good question, mine doesn't show up for nc programs, stock model and models as well

[bfoslett]

mine is not showing up as well, I really hope this is just a bug.

[M_Hennig]

Hmm, mine shows up.

[bfoslett]

Really, this is showing up for you on 2018? I just screen shot this from the help menu, but this should show up for toolpaths, boundaries, models, feature sets, etc... I still have 2017 on my PC and it still works on there. I see that I'm not the only one with this issue so hopefully admin can chime in on this.

Brad

[M_Hennig]

My bad, I thought you said user menue,  that one is not working on mine either.

[chris.hobson]

I've opened an internal fault report to allow us to investigate this issue (powermill#39874)

[bfoslett]

has anyone heard anything about this yet? I would like to start using 2018 but I will be sticking with 2017 until this problem is addressed.

[NanchenO]

If you want to test the new functionalities, you can begin, if you want to update your configuration for PM 2018, it could be a little bit early.

If you want to produce : WAIT !!! I've already seen some sever bugs.

Olivier

[M_Hennig]

I am giving both powermill and powershape until at least one service pack, they went 3 steps backwards in my opinion. My left mouse button is almost worn out after playing with this for a little bit.

[j.lacrasse]

Hi @NanchenO

Could you elaborate what are the severe bugs?

Cheers,

J.Lacrasse

[NanchenO]

For the moment:

- Some projects freeze PM 2018 when opening them from the "recent" list.

- Menus containing special characters are completely messed up, I had to edit C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\PowerMill\ribbon_customisation.xml to be able to read my macros' names.

- No way to define customized icons for the macros, you have to find them in a completely messed up menu (see previous point).

- No way to define a custom toolbar outside of the ribbon.

- No way to resized these huge icons which are "eating" too much room (for instance, Autocad's ones are OK.

- No longer user menu coming with the RMB.

Most of them are linked to the UI, I agree, but if you use a lot of macros for your day to day business, then you will not be eficient with PM 2018 for the moment.

Olivier

[chris.hobson]

The original reported issue of user menus not working has been resolved and will be in a service pack, hopefully the 1st one.

[bfoslett]

great news! thank you chris

[cfastM58RS]

Any word on when the 1st service pack will be released?

[NanchenO]

@chris.hobson,

I installed SP ...03 : Updates

- Some projects freeze PM 2018 when opening them from the "recent" list.

-> OK

- Menus containing special characters are completely messed up, I had to edit C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\PowerMill\ribbon_customisation.xml to be able to read my macros' names.

-> OK, reimport works fine !

- No way to define customized icons for the macros, you have to find them in a completely messed up menu (see previous point).

-> OK, reimport works fine !

- No way to define a custom toolbar outside of the ribbon.

-> Still open, and as you can read in this forum, your existing customers need that.

- No way to resized these huge icons which are "eating" too much room (for instance, Autocad's ones are OK.

-> Still open, and I'm not he only one asking for that.

- No longer user menu coming with the RMB.

-> OK

Good job with this SP !!!

But still a lot to do.

Olivier

[NanchenO]

I installed SP ...03 : Updates

- Some projects freeze PM 2018 when opening them from the "recent" list.

-> OK

- Menus containing special characters are completely messed up, I had to edit C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Autodesk\PowerMill\ribbon_customisation.xml to be able to read my macros' names.

-> OK, reimport works fine !

- No way to define customized icons for the macros, you have to find them in a completely messed up menu (see previous point).

-> OK, reimport works fine !

- No way to define a custom toolbar outside of the ribbon.

-> Still open, and as you can read in this forum, your existing customers need that.

- No way to resized these huge icons which are "eating" too much room (for instance, Autocad's ones are OK.

-> Still open, and I'm not he only one asking for that.

- No longer user menu coming with the RMB.

-> OK

Good job with this SP !!!

But still a lot to do.

Olivier

[Alex470]

Thanks for this release ! 

@NanchenO : I'm guessing you are using powermill in french, Are you able to select a Ncprogram, a Workplane or a MachineTool through the comboboxes in the Ncprogram tab ?

If I use powermill in English it's working, but not in french....

Here a video of the issue

[NanchenO]

@Alex470,

Sorry, I don't have access to your link (company policy ).

Could you please post a pic of which comboboxes you mean, because it doesn't seem that I have this problem (Windows 7 pro french).

Olivier