Help with IF Statement

[Beta_Librae]

Salutations All,

Thought this one was gonna be easy for me, I was wrong.

Would greatly appreciate if anyone would tell me what's wrong with this code?

IF $Pattern == "CLAMP POCKET" {
RENAME Pattern "CLAMP POCKET" "CLAMP POCKET_1"
} 

[gosmann.andreas · Accepted solution]

STRING $CP = "CLAMP POCKET"
 IF ENTITY_EXISTS('pattern', CP) {
 RENAME Pattern $CP "CLAMP POCKET_1"
 }

[Beta_Librae]

Thank you kindly, much appreciated.

I'm guessing that I can follow the same format for a toolpath?

[rafael.sansao · Accepted solution]

You can also use the new_entity_name() command.

With this approach you will never get an error when running the macro.

STRING $CP = "CLAMP POCKET"
IF ENTITY_EXISTS("Pattern", $CP) {
	RENAME Pattern $CP ${new_entity_name("Pattern", $CP)}
}

STRING $TP = "TOOLPATH NAME"
IF ENTITY_EXISTS("Toolpath", $TP) {
	RENAME Toolpath $TP ${new_entity_name("Toolpath", $TP)}
}

[Beta_Librae]

Thanks Rafael,

Really appreciate your input. Always glad to know more ways than one.

[dan_mickle]

Does new_entity_name capture the name of the newly created entity automatically? How does it work?

[rafael.sansao]