can't edit pattern !!!

[psx2]

hi,i use "profile pattern 2d" and create toolpath,

then i save templat and in another project i imported the template, import the model and now i insert a geometry in the patter of "profile patter 2d " strategy

when i clic "insert model in the active pattern" powermill send this message : pattern is locked !!!


i solved only edit toolpath and in the combobox " curve definition " i select nothing, then selection  geometry , insert in the pattern re-edit toolpath and select relative pattern !!! but all is very frustrating

please solve this problem !!!! thanks !!

[Pijetro]

Be careful when you save out the template..

If you are saving out the pattern with the template, then the strategy will expect the pattern..

Are you looking to create a new pattern, or modify the existing one?

[psx2]

i can't empty the pattern and then save template but this only for pattern used from "profile pattern 2d"

other pattern i can empty !!

[Pijetro]

What happens if you right click over the pattern, and select "unlock pattern"?

[psx2]

hi,

powermill send a message " powermill invalidate all references etc etc etc ...... "

then i click yes but when i insert model in toolpath there is the error message

please support solved this problem !!! 

thanks thanks thanks

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ps:

I understand that technical support can not please all our fantasies / needs
but a real problem and says TO BE SOLVED !!!

thanks

[GlennM.MCAM]

Try to save the strategy without a selected pattern OR at least make a new pattern and select that one before calculating.

[psx2]

I have similar projects
I do all toolpaths and save template
Then import template import model fill all pattern and boundary and calculate
I can fill all pattern e boundary eccept profile pattern 2D strategy !!!!
Thanks

[Goffa_]

Unfortunately that's the way it works.

I also use 2d Pattern profile.

The pattern is locked to the tool path even when the tool path is un calculated.

Only way I have found to edit the pattern is to first remove it from the tool path , which is what you appear to be doing.

I don't normally have your problem because I don't give the tool path a pattern until the pattern has some data.

Then its loaded into the tool path and calculated.

All done with Macro's .

Unfortunately occasionally the DXF that I load into the pattern can be messed up. Then I have to manually do the above.

Ken

[psx2]

the way it works.

for my this is not a way, this is a bug !!!!!

in all other toolpaths,
 i've a empty pattern and i can insert model into the pattern !!!

no ?

thanks

[NanchenO]

It is not a bug, it was intended that way for some "historical" reason...

Anyway, having the same problem very often, I suggest that invalidating the corresponding toolpath should be sufficient to be able to edit the pattern.

I will open an improvement request, because this behaviour is really a big loss of time for nothing and it should not be a big job to unlock a pattern.

Olivier

[psx2]

 I suggest that invalidating the corresponding toolpath should be sufficient to be able to edit the pattern

no ! isn't sufficient to be able to edit the pattern !!

 it should not be a big job to unlock a pattern

exactly !!!!

thanks thanks thanks !!

but do it !!!!

[NanchenO]

Well, I meant with "I suggest that invalidating the corresponding toolpath should be sufficient to be able to edit the pattern" that it should be the case, but it is not with the actual software version.

Olivier

[psx2]

ok ok sorry.....