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Hi,
With this bit of information, all I can say is that the vise import macro may actually be an external exe application and the macro only serves to launch that application from the Powermill panel button. In this case, the external application does not know which instance to import the vise into.
That sounds like the import vise app that was made awhile back. If it looks like this, then there is no way around the issue.
Unfortunately, the app was made on a version of the PowerMill API which didn't have a means to detect which session of PowerMill you wanted to use, and could only use the first session of PowerMill. There is no way around this if you are using that application.
That said, they did update the API to allow someone to connect to different sessions of PowerMill, but I don't imagine Autodesk will ever update the app. Someone could technically update the app themselves by doing some shady stuff, but that's outside most people's skill level and Autodesk probably wouldn't like it.
Yes. Thats correct. and I didn't know about its API. So, Do you know another Vise app without this problem for PowerMill? I hear FeatureCam has its own vise.
by the way, I call the vise app from a macro and maybe there is a command to find out if there is more than 1 session opened and warn before line of calling vise?
I can bet that there are heaps of applications for importing vise and parts nesting for Powermill. But they are programmed in-house or developed by custom app providers. The vise importing and positioning is nothing special. Theoretically, everything for a part or a vise nesting you need you can do via Powermill macros by using the command for model transformations.
You can find samples for that here in this forum. For example here:
or here:
There is not another official Autodesk app for importing vises. As others have said there are likely countless apps/plugins/macros people have made in-house and not readily accessible to other companies.
That featureCAM app is actually the exact same app used for PowerMill. It works with both software.
Lastly there is not macro command or anything we can do to fix the vise app short of decompiling it and fixing the issue in the source code of the app, which would almost certainly break any license agreement with Autodesk.
As others have said, I would just recommend crating a macro or finding a macro on here to try and do post of the same stuff. It won't be as powerful as the app though.
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