Hi
I switched my PC setup a bit and are postprocessing all my TAP files to a drive on my NAS that I have mapped on the PC that runs the AVID EX software. Whenever I open a file in AVID CNC it tries to copy it on the local drive, if the file name already exists it promts for overwrite or rename. Since I do not have a keyboard on this PC I am stuck there. Can I either turn off this prompt or the copying to a local drive?
Heiko
I noticed this also. Once I changed to generating my nc file directly to the ncfiles directory on the machine computer, I no longer get this prompt when reloading the same nc file name.
Not the answer to your question, but here’s my process: On my CAD/CAM machine I map a drive to the Avid CNC PC, and post process to a folder on that machine. If it would overwrite the same name, I deal with it on my CAD computer (running macOS) and not the CNC computer.
Thank you corbin. That was my old setup but now I have multiple machines and in Fusion and I do not want to change the network drive there every time I do a post process. And I really would hate to connect a keyboard jut to permanently press the O key….
This is a safety feature that’s on by default in CNC12. This applies to not only your setup, but cloud drives like Google Drive.
There are ways around it, you can mess with parameter 4 (Utility Menu/Advanced Config/Parms from the main screen)
This is a “bitwise” parameter. I would get familiar with those. You can find information on that, and this particular parameter in this doc: https://www.centroidcnc.com/centroid_diy/downloads/operator_manuals/centroid-cnc12-router-operator-manual.pdf
I think if you change parameter 4 to 26 you will get what you want, but I am not 100% on that.
Thank you Eric. Flipped bit0 and it works!
Unfortunately it only works for some jobs. Some jobs trigger a “cannot open metrictoimperial.mac” error. I cannot see any real pattern. All my files use a G21 command and the rror disappears if I flip the two param 4 bits again…
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Looks like this a bug in centroid. If you flip bit0 and open a file from a network drive, it sets the windows file handling to this drive letter. In the avid macros all include paths are set relative to the root directory. This works if you have windows on c: and the windows environment assumes your current drive is c:. This is the case if bit 0 is set since after opening a file from a network folder it is saved to avids directory, which is on c: so the active drive is always c:
Setting bit 0 to zero leaves the last drive your network drive. So it tries to open the macros from there. This is a result of using outdated API functions and not opening files the way the windows design guidelines require it.
A workaround is to add the drive letter to all includes in the avid macro files, which would not work if your installation is not on c drive.
Yup, you’ve honed in on something that we already solved in our future update. I had forgotten about this because I solved it a while back. No longer is the “metric to imperial” flip script needed in our new version, and we’ve also handled loading external scripts in a better way…
I believe all you need to do is “fix” this in the homing script and the M6 script and you should be OK…
How far in the future is the update you speak of…? You have mentioned a few key features in other parts of the forum that are exciting to me so I was just wondering if there was a time frame.
A few months, it’ll all come with the new ATC release. We’re updating CNC12 for that release, and regardless of whether or not you have an ATC or not this update will be available to you.
