What is mildly infuriating about this video?

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So, you guys think name toolpaths/levels etc is important?
Does that go for all programs or just the moderately to very complex ones?

The programmers where I currently work don't really name anything.

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No comments to label the operations for one.

Thats it.  That drives me nuts.  If i was involved in training like they are, I would make that part of the first day.  LABEL YOUR TOOLPATHS!!!

I used to work with a guy that didn't label anything
He did a 5X gantry file that roughed and finished 2 Tomahawk cruise missile wings from billet,, in V9
When it was finished, it was over 600 operations .. no labels no toolpath groups
It had a couple of hundred planes... again .. zero labels
The level manger had labels like ..junk .. toolpath..construction
The file took about 40 minutes to open and killed a hard drive every 6 weeks or so
He used to burn it to a CD every evening before he went home... just in case his machine failed in the morning.
He was one of the best programmers I ever knew.... and a very heavy drinker.
He'd go a a bender and the boss would tell me to take over his latest project..
that was very tough as he NEVER LABELED ANYTHING!!!

I learned from that experience... I always think of the next guy and would he be able to
figure my file out if he had to take it over tomorrow.
No matter how hard I try though it's never good enough.
I'll open a file I built 5 or 6 years ago and think, "What the hell was this guy thinking!!!"
and then I realize that it my work

[Matthew Hajicek]

Yeah, I label my levels with the part and stock, "Op 1 setup", "Op 1 Toolpath Geometry 01", etc.  Ops are "Face leaving .005"" or "Periph nom" or "Threadmill 10-32" etc.  Makes things much faster to go find when I need to tweak something.

[Here's Johnny!]

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So, you guys think name toolpaths/levels etc is important?
Does that go for all programs or just the moderately to very complex ones?

The programmers where I currently work don't really name anything.
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Everything should be labeled, named, toolpath comments etc right down to the solids in the solids manager. That way it is self explanatory.

[huskermcdoogle]

My labels make sense to me when I create them.  After I take a nap I have no idea what they are and have to go back and figure it out.....

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[quote="Thee Byte™" post_id=7887 time=1614810447 user_id=50]
So, you guys think name toolpaths/levels etc is important?
Does that go for all programs or just the moderately to very complex ones?

The programmers where I currently work don't really name anything.

Everything should be labeled, named, toolpath comments etc right down to the solids in the solids manager. That way it is self explanatory.
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+1000 for naming solids, we found a way to add solids to 2d toolpaths using by hacking the contour/pocket operations ,
now when i do a 200 part toolpath nesting If I name the solids before hand I can select a solid and see the part name without having to check the p# on the label and go through the nesting report list.

[CNCAppsJames]

I label ALL my operations ALWAYS. I work on so many things concurrently that I just couldn't keep track of things if I didn't.
It does drive me nuts when I get a project that has no operation comments. If I have to troubleshoot something it wastes SO much time digging through stuff to figure out the problem. It takes a second or two to create and can save minutes or more. Even just a number or a single letter is helpful.

JM2CFWIW

[Matthew Hajicek]

I should start labeling my solids.  I use a template file with all of my common fixturing on different (named) levels, but I haven't named those solids yet.

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You need a chook or NEthook to autoname your solids after the level that they are one, easier done than said!

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If you are on 2022 Beta, or use any of my csharp add-ins, I can beam you some code to do it.

[CNCAppsJames]

Furthermore, I do the opposite of "job security" when I create projects. I try my best to construct a project in such as way so as to allow someone that has a rudimentary understanding of the software to open up one my projects and can navigate though it should there ever need to be a change made to it. I only do Post and Go. If I make a change to the code, I go back to the CAM file and update it. I don't EVER want to be married to a project. I want to be done with it and forget about it and move on to the next one. I like vacations. I like to move on from projects. No comments is a sure fire way to generate more questions than answers IMHO.

JM2CFWIW

[CNCAppsJames]

I don't know how you could work without labelling levels and planes etc.
Unless someone is being a dick and at the end of the job when it's running, they go back in and delete all the names?

Oooooof. That's would be fucked up. If I were a manager at a company and somebody did that, in my mind that would be grounds of immediate termination. No counseling. Just here's your check now GTFO!

[Matthew Hajicek]

[quote="Thee Byte™" post_id=7942 time=1614888800 user_id=50]
If you are on 2022 Beta, or use any of my csharp add-ins, I can beam you some code to do it.
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Still using X9 mostly.  Trying to get myself to use 2021 but that interface is just so horrible.

[Matthew Hajicek]

I try my best to construct a project in such as way so as to allow someone that has a rudimentary understanding of the software to open up one my projects and can navigate though it should there ever need to be a change made to it.

 :_thumbup:  :_thumbup:

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[quote="Matthew Hajicek" post_id=7945 time=1614892601 user_id=57]
[quote="Thee Byte™" post_id=7942 time=1614888800 user_id=50]
If you are on 2022 Beta, or use any of my csharp add-ins, I can beam you some code to do it.
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Still using X9 mostly.  Trying to get myself to use 2021 but that interface is just so horrible.
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If you download the add-in from my pinned topic in the jndustrial section of emastercam, it will work in x9-2022.
Then I can send u code and you run it from a little floating toolbar with dropdown menus