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« on: November 29, 2020, 01:21:42 PM »
So i made a macro that will turn on an air solenoid for blowing the part off as I machine aluminum on my cnc mill powered by mach 3. The macro (when called) simply turns on the electric solenoid , "sleeps for 1 sec " then deactivated. It works great.
If I'm cutting a pocket and after a pass or two I insert the m code to clear the part of chips, my machine will pause while it reads the m code causing the cutter to dwell for that time. Is it possible to read the m code and and continue on with the program while the macro does it's thing in the background?