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« on: October 30, 2011, 08:52:31 AM »
Thanks for your support Gerry.
What do you guys think about the R-parameter idea? At work as a process technician we use R-parameters all the time to safe guard our programs and make things simple and quick to adjust without having to study the code.
Normally the factory has assigned R-parameters with the defaults being zero. You can freely add these parameters into your axis feedrates and spindles. Our older machines only have 200, (R0-R199) free R-parameters but our newer machines have 1000, (R0-R999).
How it works is there is a separate "table" or page with an open type parameter table. There you can view the R-parameter table alter items there or just edit them in your program by assigning a value.
Here is what the table would look like.
R0 =0 R1 =-.005
R2 =.002 R3 =1.625
R4 =25.4 R5 =.03999
etc... etc...
Does Mach have something like this? I know it has it's "program" variables for macro use but not any that are known to be free and open for other use.