I'll try to get a screencast. in the interim, here is a screencap.chrisb wrote:Can you create a screencast and upload it to a video streaming service? Post the link here and I will have a look at it.
First Steps with Path WB
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Re: First Steps with Path WB
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No need to make a screencast, I can reproduce the issue: If I take a pristine user I cannot create a tool nor can I import a tooltable - well I can do both, but without any visible effect.
Should I create a bug report or is it sufficient to mention here?
Should I create a bug report or is it sufficient to mention here?
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Re: First Steps with Path WB
I found a solution: open Preferences->General->Units and change the value of "Number of decimals" to 3. After saving the tool selection works as expected. (If you want to have 2 you can change it back).
Hint for the developers (it took me half a day to find out): The problem seems to be a missing entry in the user.cfg:
Hint for the developers (it took me half a day to find out): The problem seems to be a missing entry in the user.cfg:
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<FCParamGroup Name="Preferences">
<FCParamGroup Name="Units">
<FCInt Name="UserSchema" Value="0"/>
<FCInt Name="Decimals" Value="3"/>
</FCParamGroup>
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Wow! Thank you, chrisb! I've used your suggested work-around and I now have visible tools.
Also, I made the screencast. Too late, but here it is. https://youtu.be/qDU_yx4tvnQ
Thanks again!
Also, I made the screencast. Too late, but here it is. https://youtu.be/qDU_yx4tvnQ
Thanks again!
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You're welcome, I am glad we found that bug.
When you enter a new tool I recommend to enter it in the model, not the job. You can then use it in different jobs.
When you enter a new tool I recommend to enter it in the model, not the job. You can then use it in different jobs.
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Re: First Steps with Path WB
Thank you Chris, it helped me out too.
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In your introduction posting you don't tell what the difference between "Final Depth" and "Finish Depth" is.
Also I am missing any specification of what the material blank looks like.
At what stage shall the user specify where the 0-location in the work coordinate system is?
Another thing I missed in your posting was how to configure what your machine is capable of (speeds, work area, g-code flavor, max RPM, existence and placement of non-carthesian axis,...).
Is it correct that the feedrate and RPM have no (reduced) setting for high-chipload moves and that I can't specify any ramping angle for diving into the material?
Also I am missing any specification of what the material blank looks like.
At what stage shall the user specify where the 0-location in the work coordinate system is?
Another thing I missed in your posting was how to configure what your machine is capable of (speeds, work area, g-code flavor, max RPM, existence and placement of non-carthesian axis,...).
Is it correct that the feedrate and RPM have no (reduced) setting for high-chipload moves and that I can't specify any ramping angle for diving into the material?
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Hi Marcus,
please be aware, that path is still in an early stage of development, some things you are asked for are "in work"... And like sliptonic wrote somewhere above: for a tutorial how to use the Path WB to much things changing to fast...
Speed and RPM in the TC, not to change for each tool, isn't very practice-oriented for me...
But the entire configaration of the machine i have in the machine software, it's nice to have, but i dont realy need it in FC Path... mostly i crate neutral pathes, so i can use the gcode on differnet machines.
More than X,Y and Z axis are not implemented.
please be aware, that path is still in an early stage of development, some things you are asked for are "in work"... And like sliptonic wrote somewhere above: for a tutorial how to use the Path WB to much things changing to fast...
Path sets the 0 point always to the X0, Y0, Z0 of your document.At what stage shall the user specify where the 0-location in the work coordinate system is?
Machine dimensions you can set if you click on "job" and edit the parameters (but it don't have any effect in the moment, i think), speed and RPM is to set in the tool controller.Another thing I missed in your posting was how to configure what your machine is capable of (speeds, work area, g-code flavor, max RPM, existence and placement of non-carthesian axis,...)
Speed and RPM in the TC, not to change for each tool, isn't very practice-oriented for me...
But the entire configaration of the machine i have in the machine software, it's nice to have, but i dont realy need it in FC Path... mostly i crate neutral pathes, so i can use the gcode on differnet machines.
More than X,Y and Z axis are not implemented.
Yes...Is it correct that the feedrate and RPM have no (reduced) setting for high-chipload moves and that I can't specify any ramping angle for diving into the material?
Gruß Herbert
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Do the internal data structures and assumptions made allow for a later expansion to have a cutter come in along arbitrary vectors (not parallel to the Z axis)?
(I'm following the progress here to see about adding some of my own algorithms when the required infrastructure allows for it.)
(I'm following the progress here to see about adding some of my own algorithms when the required infrastructure allows for it.)
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sliptonic postet a link where the main developers discussing about the next steps: https://gitter.im/FreeCAD/Path
Gruß Herbert