NativeCAM is Features renamed

Hi,

If you saved the project as current work that load automatically when starting ncam, it is
'ncam/catalogs/lathe/projects/current_work.xml' delete it
If not, try deleting 'ncam' subidrectory completely, the one in your inifile directory. It will be recreated automatically when you start lcnc with your inifile if you did not comment or delete the line 'GLADEVCP = -U --catalog....'

Fern

Hi Fern,

I have managed to get it working by deleting the current_work.xml
I am trying to customize nativecam, I have added a custom-menu.xml I see the changes I've made as being applied.
However I have not managed to access a custom .cfg file from the my-stuff folder.
What should be the path to these custom cfg files? I saw that the other cfg files are prefixed with /lathe but all the cfg's are in the lathe folder.

Thanks for your input!
Vasi

You can save your default value by right clicking and selecting 'Save values as default'. No need to write a file for this.

Fern

I was not trying to save any values. I was trying to make a custom-menu that uses one of my cfg files that's referring a modified version of threading.ngc.
I am trying to debug the threading so that I can cut correctly internal and external threads. As I said in a previous post, the formula is different for internal vs external.

Then edit threading.ngc and save in my-stuff sub-directory
Do the same with cfg files and edit your menu-custom to point to it
That''s all

Fern

Within the context that time would probably be better spent getting NativeCAM on the distro, if someone could point me in a direction, as I have about 7 hours of failed attempts in getting NativeCam going again. Last time, I was able to get it going, with Synaptic, but....

I had NativeCAM installed and working, but I've needed to recreate my CNC profile. When I got it going, again using....

... it appeared to work, but the work sent to Axis behaved oddly: I could not see the work anywhere in the 3D window, while I could with opening another g-code file. Well something must really be wrong.

I tried deinstalling and reinstalling NativeCAM, still.

I reinstalled LinuxCNC from the distro. Recreated my profiles. Edited out the NativeCAM entries so the .ini would be clean.

In my LinuxCNC configuration folder, I launched a terminal and did one of these:

I did one of these, and got one of these:

NativeCAM did come up while installing, but when I started Axis the NativeCAM tab is there but blank.

I've seen a statement that the Gtk warning should not be a dealbreaker, but the tab is blank.

I've seen seen something on page 14 if this thread that began:
II want you to do this :
...but either which correct NativeCAM folder is not specified, or perhaps an environment variable is not sourced, because it can't find it.

Any hints would be appreciated, as I really like NativeCAM. : )