[mike sr1]

I have tried several times to use the engraver tools and I get a "nested quote comment in line xx". What it amounts to is a quote inside a quote so I removed the quotes it was refering to and the code ran on the machine.

Question is, has anyone else ran into this? Is there a way to edit the description of the engravers in the tool table to remove these quotes?

I can bring up the description line in the tool table but the section that needs to be edited doesnt show up.

any insight on this would be much appreciated...

[Gerry Sweetland]

Hi Mike,
When I first got SprutCam and had a few tools assigned to TTS holders I went in and filled out my tool table in SC and I had put some fancy long descriptions in the tool table with parenthesis and got the same error. I went back in and edited the descriptions by just opening the perimeters window, go to tool and select the tool I want to edit, change the name or what ever and click on replace.
Seems to me I remember Eric had done a video on the tool table. The video had a section that told where the file is located on your hard drive and how to back it up.
HTH,
Gerry

[mike sr1]

Hi Mike,
When I first got SprutCam and had a few tools assigned to TTS holders I went in and filled out my tool table in SC and I had put some fancy long descriptions in the tool table with parenthesis and got the same error. I went back in and edited the descriptions by just opening the perimeters window, go to tool and select the tool I want to edit, change the name or what ever and click on replace.
Seems to me I remember Eric had done a video on the tool table. The video had a section that told where the file is located on your hard drive and how to back it up.
HTH,
Gerry

Now why didnt I think of that??
I was trying to edit the description in the tool table and it wont let me do that, the replace function is a good idea!
Eric did have a video on tool table creation, I just havent taken the time to set one up, I have been using the one that came with Sprut and editing the feeds and speeds to more realistic values.

I wanted to use one for a chamfer tool this time and got the nested quote error again, I normally would select the 1/16 endmill for engraving then use an engraver tool to do the part. I will change the descriptions of them, that is the best solution.

thanks

[Eric_Tormach]

Remember not to use parentheses in the tool description

[Wirecutter]

I can usually express myself in writing decently, but I am not the best speller. If I'm unsure about a word and don't have internet or a dictionary, I just use a different word.

I ran into the problem of quotes and such in the tool table when I tried to use the double-quote to denote inches in the tool description. The solution I went with was to use 'in' instead of the double quote to denote inches. For example,

.250in cylindrical end mill
.500in ball end mill

I do a lot of programming for work, and in that world, there are usually ways to "escape" special characters when you want. Maybe someone smarter about SC knows if such a thing is possible in Sprut?

-Mark

[Gerry Sweetland]

I can usually express myself in writing decently, but I am not the best speller. If I'm unsure about a word and don't have internet or a dictionary, I just use a different word.

I ran into the problem of quotes and such in the tool table when I tried to use the double-quote to denote inches in the tool description. The solution I went with was to use 'in' instead of the double quote to denote inches. For example,

.250in cylindrical end mill
.500in ball end mill

I do a lot of programming for work, and in that world, there are usually ways to "escape" special characters when you want. Maybe someone smarter about SC knows if such a thing is possible in Sprut?

-Mark

What it is Mark is when Mach 3 reads your .tap file it sees any thing between the parenthesis as comments, not g-code. So when it sees parentheses inside parentheses it gets confused and spits out the error.
As a programmer you know how comments work in coding, works the same as in Mach 3.
You can still use " in the tool description.
Gerry

[MichaelHenry]

I've resorted to using brackets - "[]" - in tool descriptors for things like:

4-40 tap drill [#39]

when I essentially want to specify a tool 2 different ways. That has worked well so far.

Mike