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Re: VB and variables in G code
« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2009, 01:32:25 PM »
What you have there is , it will go to X1Y1 then bore a hole striaght down to -.5 then try to cut the circle (;-) You might want to add in 2 more params.

Param1 sets #550 with Setvar(550,Param1)
#551 gets set with Code"#551=[#550/2]"
From there everything is in place to cut the circle. I am using it and it works great.

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Re: VB and variables in G code
« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2009, 01:58:48 PM »
as long as you can do full depth cuts in one pass(;-)

(;-) TP
Re: VB and variables in G code
« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2009, 06:18:08 PM »
OK, I see what you mean. I am cutting holes in a plastic box.
For multiple depths using this macro just feed down and call the macro as many times as needed.
I guess it wouldn't be to hard to modify the macro to increment Z down until #552 variable was reached and set #552 in the G-code.