NC Setup Report

The NC Setup Report is a document that provides various information about the NC document currently active. This information includes details about the project and provider, as well as Toolpaths, procedures, and parameters.

How to create an NC Report:

1. Select NC Process / NC Report Setup. The NC Setup Report dialog is displayed:

The left window lists all Toolpaths and procedures currently defined in the Process Manager. The items that you want to be included in the report must be moved from the left window to the right. This can be done by double-clicking on the desired items, or by pressing the arrow icons. (Single arrows move only the selected items, double arrows move all items.)

Note: A Simple version of this dialog can be displayed by using the Preferences. Navigate to Tools/Preferences/NC/Environment/Dialogs and select NC Setup Report = Simple. In this case, the Available Procedures and Report Sequence windows are not displayed, and only the procedure(s) that were selected in the NC Process Manager (prior to running the NC Setup Report), will be included in the report. The shortened dialog is the default NC-Lite option.

1. Define the Output Directory to which the NC Setup Report will be saved. This is displayed in grayed out in the NC Setup Report Editor.

2. Define the view of the picture for use in the NC Report.

• Save the current view picture for use in the NC Setup Report.

• Set a White Background.

• Define the resolution of the picture to use in the NC Report - Low to High resolution.

Notes:

• If specific Customized Reports executable files (.exe) are supplied by your Cimatron Provider, additional options are displayed to enable you to control the type of report to be produced.
  
  Standard enables you to produce the regular NC Setup Report (as if no .exe file had been supplied by your Provider).
  
  Custom enables you to choose the type of report. If a number of .exe files exist, select the appropriate report type from the drop-down menu. An additional option enables you to calculate the machining time.

• If supplied, these customized reports should be installed in the following location:
  \Cimatron\CimatronE\Program\NC\Customized Reports

• If Custom is selected, the output for the custom report is an XML file named NcCustomReport.xml which is written into the directory as specified in the Output Directory field. In this case, the chosen executable would be invoked with 'NcCustomReport.xml' as a command line argument.

2. Click OK . The NC Setup Report Editor dialog is displayed:

A picture (in gif format) of the screen shot of Cimatron E is created by the system and put into the specified Output Directory. To insert a different picture, right-click in the picture field, press Select Picture and use the file browser to select a gif, jpg, or bmp image. Press Revert Picture Color to change the colors.

To insert information into the Provider Info field, right-click on the field to display the following dialog:

To insert information into the Project Info field, right-click on the field to display the following dialog:

3. When you generate the NC Setup Report (by pressing OK button), in order to display messages regarding the report (e.g. HTML Report already exists, etc.), right-click the column headings and check Show Messages. If Show Messages is not checked, the existing document will be over written automatically.

4. To customize the content of the report (the columns included in the report and their order), right-click the column headings and select Customize Toolbar.

The Customize Toolbar dialog is displayed:

The left window lists all the available columns that can be included in the NC Setup Report. The right window list the columns that are currently included in the NC Setup Report. The columns that you want to be included in the report must be moved from the left window to the right. This can be done by selecting a column and pressing Add. Columns are added to the right window above the highlighted column name.

The order of the columns appearing in the NC Setup Report can be defined by using the Move Up / Move Down buttons.

To remove a column from the NC Setup Report, select the column in the right window and press Remove.

Press Close to close the dialog and return to the previous screen.

5. The position of each row in the NC Setup Report is defined by the NC Procedure in Cimatron E. To change the position of a row in the NC Setup Report, select the row and press the appropriate up or down arrow button:

6. To print the NC Setup Editor dialog, press the print button . Notice that in the printout, the background color is white.

7. When all fields have been completed, define the output format of the report. Press the Select Output Report drop-down menu to display the available output formats:

Select a format.

8. Press OK to generate the report.

An example output report is shown below:

Note:

• The Trajectory Type value depends on the type of machining in the procedure. The Side Step value is sometimes displayed in the format a/b.