Tips & Tricks
Hey Glenn,
This Macro works great but I want to create a few If Else statements in here. I am trying to get the macro to decide which folder to place the file in. For example I have folders for each specific job. 6XXXX, 6AXXX, 6BXXX and so on. Right now this macro below will create only a 6XXXX folder and even if the part number is 6HXXX. It creates a directory like:
C:\Users\zwalker\Desktop\PROGRAMMED ELECTRODES\6XXXX\6H809\B Electrodes.
And I want it to create a directory like this:
C:\Users\zwalker\Desktop\PROGRAMMED ELECTRODES\6HXXX\6H809\B Electrodes.
In the past I have just simply replaced STRING X4 = "XXXX" with STRING X4 = "AXXX" or STRING X4 = "BXXX" but I would rather not have a bunch of the same macro buttons on my ribbon when I could have one macro that does the deciding for me.
I want to be able to have PMILL Create a folder or if it exists already just get into the correct folder to create the correct save path. I will post pictures below to hopefully better describe the scenario. I am not sure what terms I need to use to make this macro look at the line 16 (below) and have the macro determine whether this is an A, B, C, D or just another number.
STRING PATH2 = Substring("$ModelName", 1, 1)
Hopefully this makes sense to you as to what I am trying to accomplish. Thank you!
STRING LIST models = {}
FOREACH md IN FOLDER('model') {
IF position($md.name, "Planes") == -1 {
INT k = add_last($models, $md.name)
}
}
STRING ModelName = ''
IF size($models) == 1 {
$ModelName = $models[0]
} ELSE {
$ModelName = INPUT ENTITY MODEL "Choose model"
}
//Disect Model Name
STRING PATH1 = Substring("$ModelName", 0, 1)
STRING PATH2 = Substring("$ModelName", 1, 1)
STRING PATH3 = Substring("$ModelName", 0, 5)
STRING PATH4 = Substring("$ModelName", 6, 1)
STRING X4 = "XXXX"
STRING X3 = "XXX"
STRING ELECTRODE = $PATH4 + " Electrodes"
//Output path
STRING PATH0 = "C:\Users\zwalker\Desktop\Programmed Electrodes\" + $PATH1 + $X4 + "\" + $PATH3 + "\" + $ELECTRODE + "\" + $ModelName
STRING SaveAs = $PATH0
//if project already exist, just save it.
IF dir_exists($saveas) {
PROJECT SAVE
//if project doesn't exist, save it as modelname in model location
} ELSE {
BOOL NameCheck = FALSE
STRING $Question = "Is this path and modelname correct?" +CRLF+ $saveas
$NameCheck = QUERY $Question
IF $NameCheck {
PROJECT SAVE AS $saveas
STRING $Message = "Project has been saved in" +CRLF+ $saveas
MESSAGE INFO $Message
}
}
@Anonymous
Please post this question here because this topic is for tips & tricks 
At this time I don't have the time to work on that macro, but I think the easiest way to answer your question is adding a input dialog where you can manually enter '6', '7B', '8C', ... that will output the specific path OR you could use a list that gives you all the folders where you can select the correct one.
Auto detection macro are (for me) hard to make them bug free.
Glenn
Hi all.
I do not change the toolpath thickness when creating the electrode model toolpath I adjust it by adjusting the ThicknessSetValues.
Since it takes a lot of time to confirm ThicknessSetValues, I thought about a method to check with a macro.
In order to check as easily as possible, display the tool path name of
'Thickness Preferences' different from the specified tool path (or default) in the InfoBox.
However, it can not be determined that the [#] part (component) part is
exactly matched because of only numeric comparisons, but that comparison alone is enough for me.
If you want to compare with any toolpath, 'toolpath.XML' contains
<menupage label="Comparison with this Toolpath" command='MACRO Find_ThicknessSetValues_Unmatched_ToolPath.mac "%s"' /> </menupage>
If you want to compare with the Defaults
<menupage label="Comparison with Surface Defaults" command='MACRO Find_ThicknessSetValues_Unmatched_ToolPath.mac ""' /> </menupage>
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