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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: gabedrummin on August 22, 2019, 08:02:33 PM

Title: Macro Issue
Post by: gabedrummin on August 22, 2019, 08:02:33 PM

Could some one smarter than I am tell me why this is not producing any motion .What am I doing wrong .I would greatly welcome  you comments

Title: Re: Macro Issue
Post by: rhtuttle on August 24, 2019, 12:58:35 PM

I think
mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst, "G28.1 A0\nG53 G1 F75.0 A%4.4f\nG53 A-2.0000", (tpos + 12))

should be
formating strings in lua:

local s=string.format( "G28.1 A0\nG53 G1 F75.0 A%4.4f\nG53 A-2.0000", (tpos + 12))
mc.mcCntlGcodeExecuteWait(inst,s)

HTH
RT