time for you to create a version upgrade. 

reading and writing to Mach4's sigs and user data areas is all it was designed to do.
It is just a testing utility.

Scott

Turns out I made the mistake of thinking this was going to be similar to Mach3 and would know if the spindle and coolant needed to be turned on. And inform me to be ready!

Based on my conversations with Steve, I have it working fine. Just need to remember to go thru a procedure before cycle start is used.

1)  If the tool needs changing.  (That's up to me to do.)

2) position the axes. (that's in the dry run popup window, or use can use jogging)

3) turn on spindle/coolant/mist/air/all mcode outputs, if required. (that's up to me to do)

4) Press Cycle start. (and who else?)

HAHAHAHA!! NICE!!!!

Luckly, "You" where there to do it!!!

that's a good project for you Scott create a parser file that strips out the Mcodes to see what state they are in at the line selected for the dry run.

Yea, kinda like:  "We have to pass this bill before we can find out what is in it...."

Scott

Looks like there not much choice, not a big issue with basic machines and small files, but as the files get bigger and the tasks get more complex you can bet that some mcodes are going to be forgotten to be set. One of the key reason you always program with a safe block and create a block of code to start from after a tool change. Rarely done and most post processors need to be setup to create them.

(and quit voting for those politicians that are too lazy to read)

HIYA MON , I am back from the islands MON. 

(;-) TP

Made a Wizard to display an internal and external Thread Chart.
Reads in a excel csv file and outputs it in a Lua grid. (1685 rows, 13 columns)

Think of all the charts we use that can now be formatted and displayed at a button press.

Took me a while to figure this one out.  

I guess I cheated I just view a JPG copy of the Drill ,Tap, Charts  (;-)

Nice work though on the LUA grid/chart , I was looking at Importing the CAMs tool table into Mach4 .

Perhaps you could fix the Mach4 tool table (;-)

(;-) TP