Owner`s manual

MaxMotion for Machines Chapter 9-163
made in a CAD program. The MaxMotion’s DXF filter is upgraded to
ensure that POINT entity and zero length LINE from AutoCAD is read
as Dots in MaxMotion. Similarly zero length line from Corel Draw is
imported through .AI, as a Dot too.
(6) Now you can use an external text editor, NoteTabPro to edit (and
do other fancy things) the layout. The name and path of this editor can
be specified in item ‘TextEditorPath’ in section ‘GlobalValues’ of .INI
file. If the editor is in Windows or program directory or any other
directory in windows search-path, only editor name will suffice,
otherwise full path must be specified. Within the path, program
directory can be indicated by $MaxMotion$, e.g.
‘TextEditorPath=$MaxMotion$\editor\NoteTab.EXE’.
By clicking ‘Text Editor’ (F5) in Job Design pull down menu, this
editor is invoked showing all the job text. Make required changes and
save it (within the editor). Now get back to MaxMotion and then click
‘Read Textfile’ (F6). The contents of this saved file are copied back to
the layout, changing contents of line but not height or font selections.
If the text-file had more lines than the layout, the additional ones are
appended at the end. If it had fewer lines, the extra lines at the bottom
of the layout are deleted. A blank return in editor is matched with a
blank line on layout.
This is how it works. When you click ‘Text Editor’, the lines on job
layout are copied to a text file MAX.TXT in program directory, and the
editor opens this file. You should have entry
‘EditTextFileName=MAX.TXT’ in ‘GlobalValues’ section of .INI file,
which can be changed to specify a different name for this text file.
When you ‘Read Textfile’, MAX.TXT is read into the layout. The user
can himself writes MAX.TXT and ‘Read Textfile’ in a template to
generate a layout (omitting ‘Text Editor’ command, which would have
over-written MAX.TXT). The read mechanism is smart enough to
recognize line-break consisting of either CR + LF or just CR or just LF,
this covers Macintosh generated text files too. Once the editor is
running, MaxMotion does not have any control over it, so it has to be
terminated finally by the user.
(7) Now you can store textual comments along with the layout.
Clicking ‘Write Comments’ in File pull down menu brings up the same