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VB and the development of wizards / Possibility of having a blending radius command?

« on: October 22, 2007, 10:47:39 PM »

I've currently got in my program for the machine to go to a certain point
e.g
Code "G91 X20 Z10."
'*
Code "X-20 Z10."
Code "G0 X30."

'*
'This is where I'm hoping to have the following:
'Radius=GetUserDRO(1262)
'Blend radius (tangent) between the last line and the next line
'*
The attached pic should explain it better, is this do-able?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ......Unable to change active plane of movement, strange behaviour......

« on: October 19, 2007, 02:26:53 AM »

Thanks Chip, I'll give that a go.

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General Mach Discussion / ......Unable to change active plane of movement, strange behaviour......

« on: October 17, 2007, 06:08:48 PM »

I'm making a lathe screen and some of the program don't wok correctly unless I set active plane of movement to X-Z (in general config)
But when I restart Mach it resets it to X-Y?
Is this a glitch or is there something else I need to do.
I also haven't been able to set a toolpath display as a Turning control in screen 4, it always reverts back to normal, is this related somehow?

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Mach Screens / Setting a toolpath to Turning control problem.

« on: October 12, 2007, 05:54:49 PM »

Hi Guys, any idea why when I set a toolpath display to Turning control, it won't stay checked as turning control, BTW I'm using screen4.
So obviously it won't display as turning control, or am I missing something?
On that note, how can I use the toolpath to display as X Ø, Z left to right and A as the chuck, or is this exactly what the turning control does?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Well this counter has officially got me stumped....please help a poor soul...

« on: October 09, 2007, 07:48:39 AM »

Thanks alot guys, it works well, I used Scotts M200 & M201, it took me a while to realise I needed
If IsLoading()Then
Else
******
End If
But it works great.
Thanks again.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Well this counter has officially got me stumped....please help a poor soul...

« on: October 06, 2007, 10:37:16 AM »

Thanks for the reply Graham.
Basically I'm trying to display in a DRO how many repitions of a sub routine remain using a script.
So to use your example program:

O0001
#1=1
M98 P2 L10
M30

O0002
G00 Z[#1-[#1/2]]
#1=[#1-1]
SetOEMDRO(1214,#1) ' I know this isn't correct syntax, but if it was, this is exactly what I was hoping I could do.
M99

Is it possible to display in a DRO the valueof a variable? e.g #1

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VB and the development of wizards / Well this counter has officially got me stumped....please help a poor soul...

« on: October 06, 2007, 03:22:41 AM »

Any thoughts as to why I can't get this counter to display correctly?

SetOEMDRO(1214,Remain)
Code "M98 P1 L10"
Code "O1"
Code "Z[#1-[#1*2]]"
Remain= Remain - 1
SetOEMDRO(1214,Remain)
Code "M99"

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Is it possible to have code for the page number?

« on: October 06, 2007, 02:44:41 AM »

Yep, she worked a treat Graham, Thanks again.

129

VB and the development of wizards / Re: Is it possible to have code for the page number?

« on: October 05, 2007, 09:07:54 AM »

Thanks Graham, I'll give it a go.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Why this VB code works in the script editor but not when button is pressed?

« on: October 04, 2007, 03:27:08 PM »

Yeah, I've been lazy, too many things on the go, I should probably finish them.