Ribbon customization: Information cells do not refresh automatically

[antonio.ali]

Hello everyone, I would like to have your opinion to solve the problem that I will describe below.
I have customized the ribbon with information cells (Spindle speed, feed, statistics, etc.), the problem is that in old projects everything works perfectly, creating a project from scratch, these information cells do not update with the values ​​present in the different tool paths.
Instead, using the 4 predefined information cells of the status bar everything is ok even if the code is the same.
Eg:

    <entry type="uiTEXTLABEL">
      <resource key="uiLABELSTRING" value="Giri"/>
      <resource key="uiDYNAMICHELP" value="Numero di giri mandrino"/>
      <resource key="uiEXPRESSION" value="'Giri '+INT(SpindleSpeed.Value)"/>
      <resource key="uiEDITTYPE" value="ExpressionField"/>
    </entry>

I can't explain this PowerMill behavior.

[evo80]

You're going to have to deactivate and then activate the toolpath to get those values, not ideal!

[antonio.ali]

Obviously I have already tried to activate and deactivate the various toolpaths dozens of times but without success. The thing that drives me crazy is that by opening the old projects from a few months ago, all the cells are instantly updated by switching from one toolpath to another, both in the status bar and in the quick access bar and in the ribbon menu.

[v.campo]

Same problem for me, I thought it was a problem of my PC, PowerMill version is 2022.0.3.2022018

[kmarkopouliotis]

Hi I would like to know how did you manage to enter the Total Time of the Toolpath time in the Expression Field ???

Thank you..

[antonio.ali]

Hi, the parameter to show the total time of the toolpath is Statistics.TotalTime,

to show it in the format hh: mm: ss you need to use function time_to_string in this form:

time_to_string (Statistics.TotalTime; 'M')

If you want to learn more about the time_to_string function, you can find additional material at this link:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/powermill/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/PWR... 

I would be grateful if you could check, starting from a new project, from scratch, if by switching from one toolpath to another, the parameters in the information cells are refreshed in real time, unfortunately in my case this refresh of the cells only works when I open an existing project that is a few months old.

[kmarkopouliotis]

Thank you very much.

Have a nice day

[antonio.ali]

Have none of you had the opportunity to check whether these information cells are updated with the latest version of PowerMill or not, by switching from one toolpath to another?
I wish I could figure out if it is just my problem or is it a common problem.

[kmarkopouliotis]

HELLO,
VALUES IN MY EXPRESSION CELLS ARE UPDATED WHENEVER I ACTIVATE ANOTHER TOOLPATH.

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF I COULD HAVE A VARIABLE'S VALUE (REAL NUMBER) INSIDE AN EXPRESSION CELL...

[antonio.ali]

Forgive my insistence but your cells are automatically updated even if you create a project from scratch?

To use real values ​​rather than integers in cells you can write for example:

REAL (FeedRate.Cutting.Value) for Real values
INT (FeedRate.Cutting.Value) for Integer values

[pauliuska]

Hi,
I had same issue, my "solution" was as someone mentioned, reload the tool.

Assigned macro as refresh button to keep it simple.

It looks like Autodesk keeps pushing Fusion and don't care much about Powermill at all. 

[antonio.ali]

You are right pauliuska actually your workaround works by reloading the tool but, I would like to understand why on some pc it works (see the case of the user kmarkopouliotis) and on others it does not in order to be able to definitively resolve the issue.