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Good Morning to ALL,

I'm trying to get acquainted with my licensed program. It seems I can save G-Code but it will not open in editor to look at G-Code.

Where am I going wrong?

Harold

Hi Harold:

  Your Windows likely is not set up to load .tap files. Gearotic simply reports to Windos that you wish to edit the file you just created,
Windows must have a knowledge of what to do with it. To fix this do the following...

Create a text fie on your desktop. Rename it to text.tap (if your going to use some other extension use that instead.)
Now double click it, windows will say it doesnt know how to , and ask if you wish to select a program for it.
Do so, and select wordpad or any editor youd like to use. Check the box for "Always use this program".

  Now, post your file with the "open in editor box: checked, once the file is saved, whatever program you selected will
open up with the code in it.

Art

ArtF wrote: Hi Harold:

   Your Windows likely is not set up to load .tap files. Gearotic simply reports to Windos that you wish to edit the file you just created,
Windows must have a knowledge of what to do with it. To fix this do the following...

Create a text fie on your desktop. Rename it to text.tap (if your going to use some other extension use that instead.)
Now double click it, windows will say it doesnt know how to , and ask if you wish to select a program for it.
Do so, and select wordpad or any editor youd like to use. Check the box for "Always use this program".

   Now, post your file with the "open in editor box: checked, once the file is saved, whatever program you selected will
open up with the code in it.

Art

Hi Art,

Thanks,! It?s done. Ostensibly, I am learning more than just cutting gears. Had you not told me what to do or, had you simply stopped typing at ?create a test file on your desk top?, I would still BE LOST. You know, I rode to high school on wooly mammoths and flew to college on pterodactyls so I am not too swift on computers. But I?m getting there ?? slowly.

Thanks again for giving *complete* instructions.

One last question ?.. for the time being. My CNC mill uses ?W command? for the 4th axis and your program uses ?A?. I think it may work as is but what do I need to do to replace all ?A?s? with ?W? in the event it doesn?t work on my controller? John S. once alluded to a way to quickly do this but it went totally over my head. 

Thanks,
Harold 

Hi Harold:

  If the "A" doesnt work, do the following.

In your c:\Gearotic Motion folder is a file named defaultmill.pst .

Double click it. Windows will say again it doesnt know what to open it with, tell it
to use notebook.exe from the list of programs it shows you.

In the file will be this line..

!A%.3f !  -- Same for A

Change the letter !A%.3f to a !W%.3f  ( nothing else, no cariage returns or anything, just that one letter.).

Thats it, save the file and exit. Your GCode will be put out with W's instead of A's..

Art

ArtF wrote: Hi Harold:

  If the "A" doesnt work, do the following.

In your c:\Gearotic Motion folder is a file named defaultmill.pst .

Double click it. Windows will say again it doesnt know what to open it with, tell it
to use notebook.exe from the list of programs it shows you.

In the file will be this line..

!A%.3f !  -- Same for A

Change the letter !A%.3f to a !W%.3f  ( nothing else, no cariage returns or anything, just that one letter.).

Thats it, save the file and exit. Your GCode will be put out with W's instead of A's..

Art

Thanks Art. I found everything as you stated. I will leave as is for now and run the program to see how it behaves. If all is well then nothing needs to be done.

Thanks again.

Harold