I am a newbie to Mach3 and try the master it. I needed to make a number of 80 mm diameter holes in an instrument panel. So I made a subroutine with tool compensation to produce the holes. This worked fine for only the first hole, but the next holes are totally screwed up. It is as if in each consecutive call to the sub, the sub is partly switching back to the first hole. It works OK without the tool compensation. It also works when the code producing the hole is repeated for each and every hole. But that is bad practise, increasing code size.  Who can help me to make that sub working ?

Newbie Wilfried

THe g41 / 42 is broken in sub use.

(;-0 TP

That sounds a bit cryptic What exactly do you mean by that ?

exactly what it says.The G41 and G2 are BROKEN as in DO NOT WORK CORRECTLY when used in a SUBROUTINE.

(;-) TP

OK, I now understand that toolcompensation does not work in a sub. But is this something that will be corrected, or do we simply have to accept that it simply is not working? I think subs are the best way to deal with repeated structures in a design.
My first product was an aircraft instrument panel with a lot of the same instrument holes. It was very annoying I could not use subs to cut those holes.
Wilfried.

HI WIlfried, That will be up to Brian at Artsoft.

(;-) TP

This is nice to know, but how do we know whether Art soft is going to fix this problem?
I have noticed that Mach3 is widely used and appreciated, even in professional applications, so I'm very surprised that Mach3 can't cope with this toolcompensation in sub's. I also can hardly imagine I'm the only one who stumbles over this item.

You are not the only one(;-). You might want to email Brian at Artsoft and ask him directly.

I don't have the answer , I just know through testing that it is broken as in does not work correctly

(;-) TP

Hey,
  I am trying to use g41/42 in a subroutine as well, did this get resolved and if so does anyone have sample code?

No. No changes will likely be made to comp until the version 4 release of Mach3.