Post out feed rate w/macro variable

[shifty250]

Hi everyone first time posting anything on here, usually just use this site to do some stalking for ideas on posts.

I finally ran into a post issue that I can't figure out on my own. Anyways, in our shop we are running makino a51's and mori nh4000 and usually we use top solid for programming but because there is so many bugs in top solid, we are moving back to mastercam and I am trying to get the post to mimic what we had in top solid. One of the things that would post out from the top solid post was a variable feed rate so we could change the feed rate global from the controller looks something like this F[40.*#997]. I only want it post out on linear moves. i.e not tap cycles! 

Any ideas?

[bd41612]

In your plinout postblock put in:

       

        myfeed = feed

        pcan1, pbld, n$, psgplane, psgfeed, pexct, psgcode, psccomp, pxout, pyout, pcout, pscool, "F", 91, myfeed, 42, 35, "997", 93, strcantext, e$

 

Format myfeed with no address:

 

fmt      18 myfeed        # my Feedrate

 

This should work you, welcome to the forum.

[shifty250]

Thanks for the input. That works pretty well the only problems that I have with it is that it will post the feed out on ever line and that it leaves spaces in between the feed rate. Is there a way that I could define a new line line this the enter it into my line? also, how to i get it to suppress it on evrey instance after?

 

 

spaces$=0              

 newfeed = pbld, "F", 91, myfeed , 42, 35, "997", 93, e$

spaces$=1

 

 

 pcan1, pbld, n$, sgfeed, sgplane, `sgcode, sgabsinc, pccdia, pxout, pyout, pzout, pcout, newfeed, strcantext, scoolant, e$

[bd41612]

Make some kind of a counter.

 

count  :   0 # initialize counter

 

      if count = 0,

       [

        spaces$=0             

        newfeed = pbld, "F", 91, myfeed , 42, 35, "997", 93, e$

        spaces$=1

        count = 1

       ]

 

Reset counter after toolchange, etc.

       count = 0