Make "Add profile Toolpath" menu persistent or template based

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newyd_cnc
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Make "Add profile Toolpath" menu persistent or template based

Post by newyd_cnc » Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:12 pm

... hello forum members, my question is basically all in the subject of this post.
I find it a bit tedious to have to specify the toolpath parameters *every time* I invoke the add profile toolpath command (KP) sincr the default values don't suit me.

It is a shame that the default parameters cannot be modified (other than recompiling the application as I seem to have read in a post here in the forum, which is beyond my skills and capabilities) or made template based or else simply kept persistent after having been set once in the session.

Am I alone in wishing this sort of feature to be added ASAP to QCAD/CAM ?
thank you for your feedback

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Re: Make "Add profile Toolpath" menu persistent or template based

Post by CVH » Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:07 pm

newyd_cnc wrote:
Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:12 pm
It is a shame that the default parameters cannot be modified or made template based or else simply kept persistent after having been set once in the session.
You are right, it is common in QCAD that tool options are saved persistent after closing a dialog.
But here it is always Save Z 2 units, 4 units deep starting at zero in a single pass ...
newyd_cnc wrote:
Thu Feb 02, 2023 6:12 pm
(other than recompiling the application as I seem to have read in a post here in the forum, which is beyond my skills and capabilities)
Where did you read that? I doubt it is possible because QCAM is proprietary and there is nothing open source to compile from.

The best place to ask for this (rather common) feature is QCAD bugtracker:
https://qcad.org/bugtracker/index.php
You need a separate account there or register for one. :wink:

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Re: Make "Add profile Toolpath" menu persistent or template based

Post by newyd_cnc » Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:18 pm

Thank you @CVH for your reply.

I did see some discussion about changing the QCAM menu defaults in a topic entitled "How to change default values in the CAM Profile Toolpath dialog?" and dating 10/06/2021

I'll head over to the QCAD bugtracker as suggested,
thank you!

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Re: Make "Add profile Toolpath" menu persistent or template based

Post by CVH » Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:32 pm

newyd_cnc wrote:
Thu Feb 02, 2023 9:18 pm
I did see some discussion about changing the QCAM menu defaults in a topic entitled "How to change default values in the CAM Profile Toolpath dialog?" and dating 10/06/2021
Found it and it should be easy to alter your postprocessor script as explained ... :wink:
Still an odd way to do these things ... :roll:

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Re: Make "Add profile Toolpath" menu persistent or template based

Post by newyd_cnc » Fri Feb 03, 2023 4:26 pm

All right i see and understand better , thank you CVH!

Only issue is that the script code for the post-processor I use (GCodeOffsetMM) is not provided as editable file in the version I have. As a matter of fact in my opt/qcadcam-3.27.9-pro-linux-x86_64/scripts/Cam/CamConfigurations folder I only have these js script files:
ADT_HC4500.js
GCodeAbsIJ.js
GCodeInch.js
GCode.js
GCodeLayer.ui
GCode.ui
HPGL.js
Tnc145.js

I guess if the script file GCodeOffsetMM.js was available here I could overload the dialog init menu as suggested in the post cited before... I tried to download the tar.gz of the version I'm using (i initially installed with an installer package) but neither there I could find the corresponding script file...

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Re: Make "Add profile Toolpath" menu persistent or template based

Post by andrew » Fri Feb 03, 2023 4:41 pm

Postprocessors are in the postprocessors directory of your QCAD/CAM installation:

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opt/qcadcam-3.27.9-pro-linux-x86_64/postprocessors
The files you have listes are legacy post processors for the old CAM export.

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Re: Make "Add profile Toolpath" menu persistent or template based

Post by newyd_cnc » Fri Feb 03, 2023 4:51 pm

gotcha ... found it thank you Andrew.

You may spot my other post on the thread detailing how to edit the postprocessor script file as I have not managed to modiffy some of the default values in the dialog ...

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