Printing 2x Types of Reports - Help Required Please!!!!!!

JDeanie1989 over 3 years ago

Hi,

Hoping someone may be able to help or tell me if this is even possible.

I have created programs for our CNC Engineers to run on our shop floor CMMs. Everything is running fine but I was thinking of creating a custom report to make things easier for the engineers. everything is running in protected mode, so they cant make any changes.

All my report printing is automated. so the report is automatically sent to the part folder etc. based on the information entered into the routine by the engineers. i am also using Q-Das to help with the spc but currently I am showing text only report but i am going to create a custom cad based report.

Does any one know of anyway, i can still show my custom report for the engineers but print off the text report to the part folder so our inspection department can review the text only report and adjust things if necessary.

I can re output the dimensions at the bottom of the report so that i can create a text report from this information, just struggling to do this.

Would really appreciate if anyone could help

LaserJay over 3 years ago

SABarber Helped me with a similar issue in this thread

https://www.pcdmisforum.com/forum/pc-dmis-enterprise-metrology-software/pc-dmis-for-cmms/475984-print-to-text-and-pdf-at-the-same-time

Maybe he can help
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Dave Hocum over 3 years ago

The problem with work arounds is long-term stability. If you get the work around to work, it could be temporary. Once there is, an update to that feature the work around might not work.
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LaserJay over 3 years ago

I made a slight change to the .BAS files to print .PDF then .RTF
I was only able to upload the .bas files because of the file size. I think my IT department made it where we cant upload large files.
you should be able to just replace the bas files from SABarber's original post

Hopefully this works for you. Although it is a workaround I am pretty positive this is the only way to achieve what you want.

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TXT&RTF.zip
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Dave Hocum over 3 years ago

I posted this Multiple Print Commands in the HexagonMI Idea Center. Ability to use Multiple Print Commands with different formats.

Link: https://hexagonmi.userecho.com/en/communities/40/topics/988-ability-to-use-multiple-print-commands-with-different-formats

Reason for request: When using Print Commands to print one RTF report and another Print Command to print a PDF. The end results is two PDF reports.

Example:

PRINT/REPORT,EXEC MODE=END,$
TO_FILE=ON,OVERWRITE=C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hex agon\PC-DMIS\2020 R2\Test Print Commands\test.RTF,AUTO OPEN=OFF,$
TO_PRINTER=OFF,COPIES=1,$
TO_DMIS_REPORT=OFF,FILE_OPTION=INDEX,FILENAME=,$
REPORT_THEORETICALS=NONE,REPORT_FEATURE_WITH_DIMEN SIONS=NO,$
TO_EXCEL=OFF,$
PREVIOUS_RUNS=KEEP_INSTANCES
CS1 =REPORT/TEMPLATE, FILENAME= TEXTONLY.RTP, Section=-1,REPORTMODE=INSERT
PARAM/=
ENDREPORT/
PRINT/REPORT,EXEC MODE=END,$
TO_FILE=ON,OVERWRITE=C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hex agon\PC-DMIS\2020 R2\Test Print Commands\test.PDF,AUTO OPEN=OFF,$
TO_PRINTER=OFF,COPIES=1,$
TO_DMIS_REPORT=OFF,FILE_OPTION=INDEX,FILENAME=,$
REPORT_THEORETICALS=NONE,REPORT_FEATURE_WITH_DIMEN SIONS=NO,$
TO_EXCEL=OFF,$
PREVIOUS_RUNS=DELETE_INSTANCES
CS2 =REPORT/TEMPLATE, FILENAME= TEXTONLY.RTP, Section=-1,REPORTMODE=INSERT
PARAM/=
ENDREPORT/

SABarber over 3 years ago in reply to Dave Hocum

The rule of automation is the calls remain the same between versions. This “hack” should be good for quite some time.
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JDeanie1989 over 3 years ago

Thank you for your input, and apologies for the delay.

I will have a look at all your suggestions and try keep going in the background.

By looks of it you have experienced the exact same problems

what i have done for the moment is after printing it clears the report which will either force the operator to either refresh the report and view the text report or choose the Custom Report.

Thanks again
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