Scene 1, act 1
Context: Friday morning, beautiful fall California day, main character not really feeling like working on a such a nice Friday morning...
Dave checks support forum for new posts at start of day
Ah, there's one from John, posting at 9PM the prior evening; and he's playfully rattling the cage about support response time.....
Oh well, we're already way past the 1 second mark, so no hurry at this end...
Now, let's see, let the dog out, drop in some toast, pour some wake up beverage, any interesting news stories this morning? I see the Wx is about to change...
<time passes>
OK, let see what John's on about this time.... ;D
Dave
Just discovered that Mach has a limit of 253 tools. Of course this was after re-numbering my tools to allow for future expansion, ending at # 589.
Ok have re-numbered them again.
Is there a way to change tool # in the MSM tool table without re-entering all the tool info.
John
1 second and counting!
Ah, looks as if he tried to do something like make a tool number for each drill bit size and then realized that mach's tool table only goes to 253....
<let dog back in, feed dog>
Alas, there is no "renumber tool data entry" facility built into MSM (nor into mach). You'll have to create a new table.
You can get a starting point empty table with all values = 0 by loading the "all zeros" MSM tool table file that is installed with MSM.
There is one possible way that comes to mind - but I DO NOT recommend attempting this as it is highly likely to fail... this is not a supported process nor will it be if/when it fails...
1) save tool table to an external MSM file.
2) Open saved XML file with a text editor (do not use MS word etc - use a plain text editor).
3) the XML file format is human readable.... there is one obvious section for each tool number. For example, tool 0 is denoted by the TN="0" attribute.
4) edit tool number between quotes.
When all editing is done, there MUST ABSOLUTELY BE exactly one AND ONLY ONE entry for every tool number from 0 thru 253 inclusive (but I don't think the entries have to be in order, just one for each tool number)
5) save edited tool table as .m3tt file
6) use MSM load TT button to attempt to read back in the hand edited tool table.
Honestly, the predicted success rate for this is low as a single typo etc from hand editing will cause the parsing of the file to fail and MSM to throw an error when attempting to load the file... the file format was not designed for easy hand editing or as a human interaction interface.
On the flip side, the failure will be pretty benign, as it just won't load tool information.
If you get lucky and the table loads, rush out and buy two lottery tickets before your luck changes! Send one of the winning tickets to me as a support payment.
Honestly, you will be much better off just building a new table from scratch.
<let's see how long did this response take? well, not a new support record, but still way ahead of any typical response time John would ever see from Google, Microsoft, Adobe or...)>
Character exists stage left, audience clapping, fade to black...
<end scene 1, act 1>
Dave
