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<h1 id="finding-your-way">Finding Your Way</h1>
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<p>The application is a handful of screens, and most of what a job configures lives inside a tree on
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two of them. The <strong>Page</strong> menu reaches six of those screens, and it is not all of them. Every node
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two of them. The <strong>Page</strong> menu reaches five of those screens, and it is not all of them. Every node
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of a tree has an address of its own, so a place in the application can be linked to rather than
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described.</p>
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<h2 id="the-screens">The screens</h2>
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<p>The <strong>Page</strong> dropdown on the menu bar carries six entries in three groups. The first group is the
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<p>The <strong>Page</strong> dropdown on the menu bar carries five entries in two groups. The first group is the
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job, in the order a job uses it:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Tool House</strong> — the tools, one editor per tool</li>
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<li><strong>File Explorer</strong> — browsing the files under the roots the service exposes</li>
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<li><strong>Mechanism Builder</strong> — authoring a kinematic chain</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Below a second separator, one more:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Legacy-Controller</strong> — the controller settings that the General Setup tree's Controller branch
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has no editor for. The page it opens is titled <em>Controller</em>.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>No entry is ever greyed out. All six are selectable with no project open; what they lead to is what
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<p>No entry is ever greyed out. All five are selectable with no project open; what they lead to is what
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changes.</p>
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<p>Three screens have no entry in this menu:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Machine Tool</strong>, at <code>/machine-tool</code>, reached by address only. It shows the machine chain beside a
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folder button whose tooltip reads <strong>Browse</strong> and a GUI / XML view switch, so it is more than a
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look at the chain — and it needs a project open.</li>
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folder button — whose tooltip reads <strong>Browse</strong> once a project is open, and <strong>Load a project first</strong>
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before that — and a GUI / XML view switch, so it is more than a look at the chain, and it needs a
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project open.</li>
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<li><strong>Log Viewer</strong>, reached from the <strong>Show Log</strong> button near the right-hand end of the menu bar. Its
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address is <code>/preference/log</code>.</li>
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<li>The sign-in page, which the service raises on its own when it wants one.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="selecting-inside-a-tree">Selecting inside a tree</h2>
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<p>General Setup and Execution each carry a Control Tree in their left dock, under a header reading
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<strong>Control Tree</strong>, with the selected node's editor in the row beneath it. That editor row is titled
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with the path of the selection — <em>General Setup / Workpiece / Anchor / Geom To Fixture</em> — which is
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also how these pages name a place in prose.</p>
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<strong>Control Tree</strong>, with the selected node's editor in the row beneath it. That editor row names the
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path of the selection — <em>General Setup / Workpiece / Anchor / Geom To Fixture</em> — which is also how
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these pages name a place in prose; the header shows as much of it as the dock is wide, so a deep
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path arrives truncated.</p>
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<p>General Setup's tree has one root, <strong>General Setup</strong>, holding <strong>Machine Tool</strong>, <strong>Spindle
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Capability</strong>, <strong>Background</strong>, <strong>Coolant</strong>, <strong>Fixture</strong>, <strong>Workpiece</strong> and <strong>Controller</strong>, in that
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order. With a project open, a <strong>CSV Controller</strong> and a <strong>CL Controller</strong> node follow, each behind
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<li>To take a link from the tree instead, right-click a node's label. Every label is a real link to
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that node's address, so the browser's own copy-link and open-in-new-tab entries both apply to
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it.</li>
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<li>Ctrl-click, Cmd-click or Shift-click a label to open that node in a new tab. The current tab's
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selection stays where it is.</li>
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<li>Ctrl-click or Cmd-click a label to open that node in a new tab; Shift-click and middle-click open
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it wherever the browser opens any other link. The current tab's selection stays where it is.</li>
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<li>A plain left click selects the node in place, without navigating.</li>
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<li>Paste a <code>?tree=</code> value belonging to the other tree page and it redirects to the page that owns
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it, so a link does not have to name the right screen to reach the right node.</li>
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<li>Paste a <code>?tree=</code> value belonging to another page's tree and it redirects to the page that owns
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it — the other tree page, or Tool House — so a link does not have to name the right screen to
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reach the right node.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>Tool House has no <code>?tree=</code> at all — its address already names the selection, as
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<p>Tool House has no <code>?tree=</code> at all — its address names the selection down to the sub-tab, as
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<code>/tool-house/<tool>/<tab>/<sub-tab></code>, so <code>/tool-house/1/cutter/material</code> is a link to one tool's
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Material sub-tab.</p>
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<p>Arriving at a tree page with no <code>?tree=</code> still lands on a selected node — the last selection this
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<h5>Important</h5>
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<p>An address for a node its Preference checkbox is currently hiding — a <strong>CSV Controller</strong> or <strong>CL
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Controller</strong> node — is honoured only when the tree is built while that address is the current
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one, and it reveals nothing without a project open. In practice that means a full page load:
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pasting the link into a new tab, or reloading on it. Jumping to it from a screen that has already
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one, and it reveals nothing without a project open. In practice that means the tree's first build
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on that address: pasting the link into a new tab, reloading on it, or opening General Setup for the
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first time since the page or the project was loaded. Jumping to it from a screen that has already
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shown General Setup for the current project does not rebuild that tree, so the address is dropped
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in silence with the selection left where it was.</p>
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</div>
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prefix</strong> <code>MC.</code>, <strong>Cutter location prefix</strong> <code>CL.</code> and <strong>Tool id column</strong> <code>ToolId</code>.</p>
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<p><img src="finding-your-way-img/controller-csv-revealed.en.png" alt="The General Setup Control Tree with a CSV Controller node at the same indent as Controller, a sibling rather than a child of it, and the CSV column-tag editor below the tree"></p>
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<h2 id="the-addresses">The addresses</h2>
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<p>Nine addresses render a screen of their own. The bracketed segments are optional, so the bare
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<p>Eight addresses render a screen of their own. The bracketed segments are optional, so the bare
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address resolves too and the screen fills them in from its own state; File Explorer's trailing path
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carries as many segments as the browsed folder is deep.</p>
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<table>
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<td>Machine Tool</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><code>/controller/<tab></code></td>
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<td>Controller</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><code>/util/file-explorer/<root>/<path></code></td>
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<td>File Explorer</td>
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</tr>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<p><code>/</code> lands on Execution. Six further addresses render nothing of their own and redirect into a tree
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<p><code>/</code> lands on Execution. Seven further addresses render nothing of their own and redirect into a tree
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page's node instead:</p>
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<table>
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<thead>
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</thead>
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<tbody>
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<tr>
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<td><code>/controller</code>, and anything below it</td>
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<td>General Setup, the Controller branch — the trailing path, the retired Legacy-Controller page's tab names included, is discarded</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<td><code>/spindle-capability/<tab></code></td>
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<td>General Setup, the Spindle Capability branch — on that tab's item when the segment names one, on the branch itself otherwise</td>
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</tr>
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