File Path Not Specified

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Sketch box or lines
2. Select profile toolpath or any toolpath
3. Select Go

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expect to see Gcode in output with toolpaths in the viewer.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
OS:Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002
HeeksCNC 0.15.1

Please provide any additional information below.
I am not a programmer so some programming terms and ideas are foreign concepts 
to me. I've search through previous issues without seeing any problems of this 
nature. Excuse me if I have missed something.

I've tried to resolve the issue myself but continue to see an error message 
stating "Error Document Empty".

Other error messages that I've encountered when trying to solve this are, 
"Couldn't open file -/tmp/test.tap.nc.xml"
and, "Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified."

Beside being unable to do toolpaths, I love this program. Great work everyone 
involved.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rick.a....@gmail.com on 18 Jan 2011 at 10:05

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Coudt you check this with the new 0.16.0 version that is providet on Jan 20th
please 
seams that this one is working your way !

Original comment by lot...@foengarage.de on 23 Jan 2011 at 8:39

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Got new OS. 
Windows 7 now.
Same issue occurred.
Now the toolbar buttons for the cnc operations are no longer visible.

Is there a reference I could check to be sure all the files are in the right 
spot?

Original comment by rick.a....@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2011 at 10:00

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>>"cnc operations are no longer visible".
If you look on the "Window" menu, is there a "Machining" option that you can 
tick?

"/tmp/test.tap" is a Linux path. Maybe there is something old in the registry. 
Can you go to the registry and delete the HeeksCNC registry key, then try 
HeeksCNC again. 

Original comment by danhe...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2011 at 10:53

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Hi,
I am getting the same error.  It seems like the wxWidgets wxStandardPaths 
GetTempDir is not returning a valid temporary directory on Windows Vista.  I 
downloaded the HeeksCNC 0.17.2 and ran it on Windows Vista Ultimate SP2.  I 
haven't had enough time to get all of the libraries to build HeeksCNC and test 
it.  I also am running HeeksCAD 0.16.  I am just learning the programs, so I am 
not sure if I am doing something wrong.  I tried to run the Pocket machining on 
the simplepocket.heeks example.

The programs are great!  Thanks for all of your hard work!

Original comment by MandyJoH...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2011 at 5:17

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I'm getting the 'Error document empty' message as well.  I noticed that there 
are some empty files '.tap' and '.tap.nc.xml' being created in my project 
directory and some others with data being created in '/tmp'.

I'm running on Ubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Linux so this is not limited to Windows.  
Possibly a file location problem.  Could be related to the tmp directory.

I am also trying to do a pocketing operation but I get this with Adaptive 
Clearing as well.

Original comment by jcoffl...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2011 at 9:58

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Maybe the post-processing failed, so no NC code was made.
In Windows, you can add "pause" at the end of "post.bat" to see if there were 
any python errors.
In Linux, I think you can look in the terminal, if you lauched HeeksCAD from a 
terminal.

Original comment by danhe...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2011 at 10:47

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Hey Dan, what is 'class HxmlWriter' used for from hxml_writer.py ?
I can't see that any of the other python files use it for anything.

Original comment by ddfalck2...@yahoo.com on 1 Apr 2011 at 1:56

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I have changed how the backplotting works, to be able to reuse files like 
iso_read.py.
The Parser class defined in [some_machine_name]_read.py needs a "writer" object 
set.
So now I call backplot.py to do the backplotting, which makes a "HxmlWriter"
http://code.google.com/p/heekscnc/source/browse/trunk/backplot.py
This is called from "nc_read.bat" in Windows, maybe I didn't change it for 
Linux!

Original comment by danhe...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2011 at 2:04

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ok, Dan fixed it

Original comment by ddfalck2...@yahoo.com on 1 Apr 2011 at 2:32

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Original comment by danhe...@gmail.com on 1 Apr 2011 at 2:35

• Changed state: Fixed

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Hi, I have the same issue on Ubuntu 12.04, I get and saying -/tmp/backplot.xml.
Greate job 

Original comment by juancarl...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2012 at 8:20

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Hello!

Same error at Post-Process: Couldn't open file - /tmp/backplot.xml
I started the program from terminal. Here is the output when running 
post-process:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/post.py", line 6, in <module>
    import area
ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/area.so: undefined symbol: 
_ZNK5boost6python7objects21py_function_impl_base9max_arityEv
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/heekscnc/backplot.py", line 8, in <module>
    machine_module = __import__('nc.' + machine + '_read', fromlist = ['dummy'])
  File "/usr/local/lib/heekscnc/nc/emc2b_read.py", line 1, in <module>
    import iso_read as iso
  File "/usr/local/lib/heekscnc/nc/iso_read.py", line 8, in <module>
    import nc_read as nc
  File "/usr/local/lib/heekscnc/nc/nc_read.py", line 7, in <module>
    import area
ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/area.so: undefined symbol: 
_ZNK5boost6python7objects21py_function_impl_base9max_arityEv

I recognize, this is a python library problem, but I installed every -dev 
package to python and boost-python. I use Ubuntu 12.04.
Should I try to recompile libarea with different linking parameters?

TXH.
Great program though :)

Original comment by jaklimei...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2013 at 10:06