RhinoCAM ToolBaker - Baking RhinoCAM Tool Catalog to Named Layers

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Permalink Reply by ryles on March 12, 2010 at 6:55am

whoah, this sounds very helpful! can't wait to test it out, thanks for sharing!

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Permalink Reply by FrankS on March 12, 2010 at 8:00am

here is an updated definition.
i only changed the file path so that it references an example file on C:\

just download the .csv and place it on C:\ to see what is supposed to happen...

Attachments:

• RhinoCam_ToolCatalog_Test_01.csv, 2 KB
• GH_RhinoCAM-ToolBaker_02.ghx, 1010 KB

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Permalink Reply by ryles on March 16, 2010 at 10:09am

Hey Frank,

I just tried it with my Tool Definitions saved out of RhinoCAM.

See the attached file with my CSV file and also and image of where I am getting the error in the definition.

You must be Frank in the MecSoft forum asking for MOPS to be able to assign to layers. I have a definition that I use to do planking on planar curves for machining, I tried outputing from grasshopper to rhino, and I have been using colors to assign MOPS to (so I just have to select one then use select similar colors).

Any ideas on why I'm getting this error?
Thanks

Attachments:

• Desktop.rar, 15 KB

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Permalink Reply by FrankS on March 23, 2010 at 3:06pm

hey ryles,

sorry i was offline for a while. yep you are right, that's me in the mecsoft forum.
i have a problem downloading the "desktop.rar" file. "access denied" with two browsers. would you mind trying to upload it again. maybe as zip... let's see if that helps.

best frank

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Permalink Reply by ryles on March 24, 2010 at 7:03am

Weird, I just tried to download the link and got the same error.

Let's try it again.

Attachments:

• tool library.zip, 1 KB

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Permalink Reply by FrankS on March 26, 2010 at 2:43am

hey ryles,

i am not sure where you get the error, but can reproduce that the def is not working correctly with your catalog file.

1st: i would try to avoid spaces in file/path names.
2nd: using an additional string parameter between "file" and "vb_split" might help if you get the error in "vb_split".
3rd: there are some NULL values interpreted in "name" category. not sure why. first i thought because of slashes (/). but it turned out to be working in some cases with slashes in names...
4th: the def is set up to work with mm, so hard-coded values like the "end of flute groove" might have to be adjusted for proper proportions if using inches.

hope this helps,
best,
frank

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