An "easy" post question

[Tom Szelag]

No, I'm not asking for a post.

 

As I was saying in my other thread, been trying to update this old EzTrak post from v6 to v9. Got it ALMOST where I want it. But!

 

Right now the block numbers I'm getting are

 

N102

N104

N106

N108

 

etc

 

And I'd like them to be

 

N001

N002

N003

N004

 

etc

 

It can't be THAT hard to change in the post, can it?? But looking at this post file for the first time, its kinda daunting!

 

And yea I tried the v9 EzTrak post on the CD but its outputting stuff totally different from what our machine takes.

[Brendan P]

I thought that was a setting in screen/configure/nc settings tab/sequence numbers?

[Rekd™]

2 things cause this, the first is the increments you're getting.. (only even numbers). This is controlled in Screen/Settings under the Sequence Numbers setting. Set both to 1.

 

To get the leading zeros, you'll have to create or select a format statement. Look for

 

fmt N 4 n #Sequence number

 

 

in Toolchange / NC output variables, and change the number next to the N to what ever format you use for leading zeros.

 

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Format statements - n=nonmodal, l=leading, t=trailing, i=inc, d=delta

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

#Default english/metric position format statements

fs2 1 0.7 0.6 #Decimal, absolute, 7 place, default for initialize (

fs2 2 0.4 0.3 #Decimal, absolute, 4/3 place

fs2 3 0.4 0.3d #Decimal, delta, 4/3 place

#Common format statements

fs2 4 1 0 1 0 #Integer, not leading

fs2 5 2 0 2 0l #Integer, force two leading

fs2 6 3 0 3 0l #Integer, force three leading

fs2 7 4 0 4 0l #Integer, force four leading

fs2 9 0.1 0.1 #Decimal, absolute, 1 place

fs2 10 0.2 0.2 #Decimal, absolute, 2 place

fs2 11 0.3 0.3 #Decimal, absolute, 3 place

fs2 12 0.4 0.4 #Decimal, absolute, 4 place

fs2 13 0.5 0.5 #Decimal, absolute, 5 place

fs2 14 0.3 0.3d #Decimal, delta, 3 place

fs2 15 0.2 0.1 #Decimal, absolute, 2/1 place

fs2 16 1 0 1 0n #Integer, forced output

fs 17 1.4lt #Decimal, absolute, four trailing

 

HTH

[richardtraver]

you can also change this in cimco edit under set-up > block numbers and then in nc functions you can add or remove the block numbers

[Rekd™]

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you can also change this in cimco edit under set-up > block numbers and then in nc functions you can add or remove the block numbers

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Correct, but only if you don't mind going to an editor and editing before you send to the machine.

[crazy^millman]

Everytime you post a program? So only takes you 30 seconds everytime we do about 40 to 60 programs a week so in one year we would waste 26 hours. So at $75 an hour it would cost us about $2000 for a 5 minute post edit. Think I would modify my post and be done with but just my 2 cents worth.

[Allan Brown]

The start and increment values come from Mastercam.

 

You can override them by doing something like this before your first sequence number is output (n, )

 

seqinc = 1

seqno = 1

n = seqno

 

The rest is formatting - you need 'n' to use a format statment with 3 leading.

[Tom Szelag]

Ah, I see. Thanks a lot guys.