OUTPUT first tool?

[wz_111]

example:

%

O0001

G99 G21

G0 X200. Z150.

 

N3 (R0.8)

T0303

S800 M3

/ M8

G0 X50. Z20.

Z2.

G1 Z-20. F0.25

...........

...........

G0 X200. Z150.

M0

 

N2 (R0.4)

T0202

S1500

G0 X28.5 Z20.

Z-20.55

G1 X22. F0.08

......

......

G0 X200.

Z150. M9

G97 S200 M5

T0303 <-----------------------here

M30

%

 

Thank you !

[crazy^millman]

Will need to create a buffer that stores the 1st tool picked and then call the buffer at the end of the program and then go from there. Will need to turn off the increment process in buffers or make sure you subtract one from the buffer value so it will come out correctly. That is the correct way IMHO to handle the process. Since I have a hard time with buffers I will suggest a non buffer way in which you use a mi or mr variable and then call it in the last operation that will then do what you are after pretty easily. Not as automated as a buffer would be, but for a simple guy like me what I know I can do predict and works.

[rocheey1]

I'm no post whiz, but why couldn't one just define a variable, initializing it to zero/empty, and at a tool change, update the value only if the value is zero/empty ?

[Bryan Johnson]

Yes. Create a single variable to capture the 1st tool. This will be much less work than setting up buffer.

 

[wz_111]

Thank you very much!

 

This seemed a bit difficult

[Guest]

If you're trying to output the first toolo at the end of the program, many new posts already have the variable

defined

 

fmt "T" 4 first_tool$ #First tool used

 

and in the peof

 

if stagetool = 1 & stagetltype = 2, pbld, n$, *first_tool$, e$

 

So even if you're not staging, it's a pretty quick edit to get what you need

[rocheey1]

Wow ... Occam's Razor whittled that problem down to almost nothing

[crazy^millman]

Cool did not remember that did that nice sometimes to just start a conversation and see where it goes. Glad you got it solved that easy and sorry I was leading you down the wrong path.