P, Q, R parameter

[flick]

The value passed to Q seems to "cascade" down to R, and then persists if R is not specified in successive calls.  Feature? Known issue? Already fixed?

[flick]

I was playing around a little more with this today, and the cascading effect I thought I had seen yesterday is gone.  The more I think about it, the more I think that I made it up by happenstance.  Plus I was really tired.  But the persistence is still there.

Whereas Param1() and Param2() always return -1 if P and Q, respectively, are left out of the macro call,  Param3() will return whatever value was last used with R.  It's even persistant between different macros.

[BR549]

I can confirm that. It seems to be a bug.

Test

'm1009 test macro
Message "" &param1 &param2 &param3
end

create macro then add params to the macro call. The values will show up in the mach message line. Then call the macro without params and it displays
-1,-1, what ever number that was in R.

[stirling]

I'd suspect that this is tied up with cypress enable's appaling stack handling which is and allways has been broken.

[flick]

Is that also why we can't nest macro calls?  It sure is tough to develop a general purpose macro library without nesting...

[stirling]

Is that also why we can't nest macro calls?

What happens?

[BR549]

HIYA Stirling, question ,there is a fellow doing probing of an engine intake ports. Can your crawler routine probe the inside of a 3d object such as a port?

[stirling]

HIYA Stirling, question ,there is a fellow doing probing of an engine intake ports. Can your crawler routine probe the inside of a 3d object such as a port?

Hi - It's basically a bed o' nails with the added benefit of only probing inside a prescribed boundary. As you know a standard or dumb bed o nails only probes inside a defined rectangle which can mean it spends an inordinate amount of time probing useless space. All I can sugest is your fellow gives it a whirl. Don't know if you've seen it but there's an Italian company in this thread www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,4352.msg97649.html#msg97649 that has a couple of nice vids on their site and youtube of the routines in action.

Let me know how you get on.

Cheers

Ian

[BR549]

HUM there is really nothing to probe in the Z axis just a big hole. The area to probe would be in the X/Y directions and step down in z as it goes deeper into the port.

Your crawler routine works great but I don't think it will work in this application unless it could be modified to crawl the perimeter from the inside out then step down.

(;-) There IS a market for a PORT probing routine to do this IF you are interested.

I have seen your routine do the combustion chambers of the head, that IS a perimeter and bed of nails type of probing solution

Thansk

[flick]

Is that also why we can't nest macro calls?

What happens?

Hrm, can't find it anymore, thought I'd read it wasn't allowed. Brain fart?