Height and Diameter offset

[Hacsta]

i posted this question in another thread but with no success here i go again

 

quote:

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i want to put the tool diameter offset# and the height offset# next to the tool # in my tool manager page so when i'm looking for tool with the same # but different height and offset#. i can see and pick the right tool with the right offset.the tool # is only shone.. thanks for any help.

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[Rekd™]

If you're talking about re-positioning the columns in the tool manager, you can't.

 

The best you could do is sort by one of the existing columns. Even that doesn't work very consistanly after you close and re-open the manager.

 

Great thought, though!

 

Might be something for ver-X, hint hint.

 

'Rekd

[Hacsta]

thats what i'm talkin about.

 

ya would be nice for ver X

 

guess well just have to pray:)

thanks rekd

[Thad]

Hacsta, (I love that name )

 

Can you put that info into the tool description?

 

For example:

H1D1 1.000 endmill

H5D5 1.000 endmill

 

Do I understand you correctly?

 

Thad

[Hacsta]

see i have all my tools set up in the library and or tool manager some tools with the same # but with different h and d offsets and you can't see the other offsetts.

I'm just tring to save on the click count per op

 

thanks thad i love your name too

 

[Rekd™]

I think what he was getting at was that you could change the tool's NAME to reflect their H & D values.

 

'Rekd

[Thad]

That's exactly what I was thinking, Rekd. I thought maybe I still didn't understand what Hacsta wanted to do.

 

Thad

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

You can move thngs to the next column with an ASCII character. Below the 009 is the ascii Horizontal Tab character. Any ascii char can be output. Like if you need to output a # (normally used for comments in the post) you can just say " 35, ".

 

Although I dont know what some controls will do with the Tab character.

 

"PART NUMBER = ", spartno, 009, 009, "REV LEVEL = ", srev, e

 

This is from formatting data in my setup sheet.

 

Mike Mattera

[Rekd™]

HuH??

[Hacsta]

i get what you were sayin now thad

add offset values to tool name

thats the way i'm going

well until ver 10 comes out and solves all our problems

 

mike, care to repeat that in english

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

If you want

H1 (with spaces here) D1

 

You can put in a Tab to shift to the next column.

 

"( ", *tloffno, 009, 009, *tlngno, ")", e

 

9 is the asciit code for a tab.

 

Maybe I misunderstood what you wanted to to. But it sounded like you were moving data in a column format. Sorry it's not english. It's in a language called MultiPost (MP).

 

Mike Mattera

[Rekd™]

The columns he's talking about are the ones in the Tool Manager (library), not the setup sheet or NC file.

 

quote:

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i want to put the tool diameter offset# and the height offset# next to the tool # in my

tool manager

page

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'Rekd teh Reading and Comprehension are key

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

Ahhhhhhhh!

 

That's why I draw pictures and make Video Training materials. No one told me I had to read to do this job. .

 

Mike Mattera

[Mike Mattera - TFM]

Besides I've been wrestling with a post all morning. So i've got posts on the brain.

 

Mike Mattera

[Hacsta]

teh reading is fundamental

 

WOW man did you say multipost

[Rekd™]

LoL @ Mike.

 

Aight, we'll let it slide this time, but if you don't start paying attention, I'm going to have to ask you to stay after school for some detentions.

 

'Rekd