Force printing of Powermill setup sheets.

[Anonymous]

Is there a macro that I can call within my macro to force the printing of the Powermill setup sheets, once the print preview popup appears.

I believe that once the popup appears, it's out of the hands of Powermill and becomes a Windows 7 control issue.

Thanks,

Glen

[NanchenO]

I fear that you are right and I did not find how to do it

Olivier

[Anonymous]

I sure hope there is a solution. Otherwise, definitely a wish list item!

[kukelyk]

Since we do not use the out-of-the-box setup sheets, but excel files, I am not sure, but if You send some sample filenames for different projects' setup sheets' full path, we could find some kind of solution.

ie. C:\myprojects\Pmill_project1\setup_sheets\setup1.html

C:\myprojects\Pmill_project1\setup_sheets\setup2.html

C:\myprojects\Pmill_project2\setup_sheets\setup2.html

[GlennM.MCAM]

I just press "Alt+P" and hit enter. Fastest option as far as I know.

Glenn

[Anonymous]

Thanks GlennM,

But my question is how do you get those keystrokes to happen during the macro?

I don't want the user to have to keep kitting keys, I just want the macro to print the setup sheets out in the order as prescribed in the macro, without user intervention, beyond the starting of the macro.

Thanks,

Glen

[GlennM.MCAM]

That is a windows command and have no clue if you can trigger this with a powermill macro.

Glenn

[ewshp]

I am too searching for a way to do this and i may have found something

Note : I haven't tested this yet

Found a little (free) software that monitors a specific directory on the computer and when a file appears in it, sends it directly to the printer without any user confirmation (as long as it is a "printable" file type).

So the process would be to generate the setupsheets as usual in a specific folder and they would get printed on the default windows printer.

It removes some additional complexity of OLE action command in PowerMILL macros

The software is called PrintFile

Sam

[Anonymous]

Thanks Sam,

I will consider this.

Glen

[5axes]

As i have excatly the same request; I'm Wondering if you have found a solution to print a SteupSheet whitout displaying the Print Preview ?

PRINT SETUPSHEETS NCPROGRAM ;

// How to close of hide the PRINT PREVIEW ??

YES
TEXTINFO ACCEPT

[tibor.vekasi]

Generic solution for Pop-up windows: use AutoIt V3 https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/

Sample macro for using:

// All exe in macro folder
// Start Query and Print preview automation
OLE FILEACTION "open" "PmillQueryAuto.exe"

//
// Toggle Powermill Query automation
OLE FILEACTION "open" "TogglePmillQuery.exe"
//
// Toggle Print Preview automation
OLE FILEACTION "open" "TogglePmillPrintPreview.exe"
//
// Close Query and Print preview automation
OLE FILEACTION "open" "ClosePmillQueryAuto.exe"

Source codes and exes attached.

The PmillQueryAuto needs to be  edited: I use hungarian language Win10, Print Preview Window text is "Nyomtatási kép"

[rob_carri]

Yes, I just mad, html viewer right button, preview, orient, reduce, print