Problems when trying to get the G-code on PTC Creo Manufacturing

Hi Daniel,

Your target g-code file with the same name might already be open in another program or you might not have the rights to write in the folder defined in "pro_mf_tape_dir"

Pushkar

My best guess is that your full directory name that you are trying to write to is too long. There is a character limit, I don't remember the number of letters, but if you exceed the limit it will not write your file. I found this out because people in our company have adopted the custom of naming directories things like "Customer Order XXXX with New Definition 2012-01-12 Modification 2" and once you have a few sub-directories branching off those sentence-long names, you hit the limit.

How do I avoid this mess? I did the following:

(1) I have a directory on my C: drive, called "C:\ptc"

(2) I created a sub-directory of that one, called "NCFiles"

(3) I added the following lines to my config.pro to tell Creo where to look for the .CL files created by Creo, and where to put the .tap files created by the post-processor

     pro_mf_cl_dir C:\ptc\NCFiles

     pro_mf_tape_dir C:\ptc\NCFiles

Thus, when I output the CL files they go in the above directory, and when I post-process one the "tape" file goes in the same place. An added benefit is that I don't have a bunch of extra files scattered around, they're all in this one place.

The only other thing I can think of is if there is already a ".tap" file of the same name as the one you are trying to write that you do not have the permissions to overwrite.