A little fadal post help please.

[somename75]

Hello all, I am trying to figure out how to seperate the Tool number from the M6. It needs to see them on seperate lines but I can seem to figure out how to do it. What I have now is

 

T4 M6

 

I need

 

T4

M6

 

 

Thanks alot in advance

 

Dave

[mowens]

In you post, look for ptlchg$

 

There should b e a line that looks like:

 

n$ *t$,"M6", e$

 

Break it into 2 lines.

 

n$ *t$, e$

n$ "M6", e$

[Hardmill]

What Fadal control are you using that requires it to be on separate lines ??

MPMaster output is good right outta the box.

 

 

PEACE

[somename75]

Thanks much dude, your tagline is awesome by the way

[somename75]

The control is a fanuc 18 on a pretty new fadal. I've never seen one like this before. It was an upgrade option over the fadal controller.

[Hardmill]

OK cool, never seen that one before.

 

Be careful with MOWENS, meds wear off and he starts swinging his cane.

 

 

PEACE

[cadcam]

That is why its a Fanuc. So it uses G54 instead E1 right or did they set for the option like the Fadal Format1 and Format 2?

[somename75]

Yeah regular G54's, I searched Mpmaster for the string that Mowens mentioned but could not find it. Any other Ideas?

[mowens]

Did you find the ptlchg block? There should have been something similar there. Could you post a little bit of what you did find?

[somename75]

Here ya go, hope what you were looking for is in this section.

 

 

ptlchg_com #Tool change common blocks

pcom_moveb

c_mmlt #Multiple tool subprogram call

#ptoolcomment

comment

pmisccheck

pcan

if plane < 0, plane = 0

if stagetool >= zero, pbld, n, *t, "M06", ptoolcomm, e

spaces=0

if output_z = yes,

[

preadbuf5

 

 

Thanks

[mowens]

I am by no means a post guru, but you could try something like this:

 

code:

---

 ptlchg_com #Tool change common blocks

pcom_moveb

c_mmlt #Multiple tool subprogram call

#ptoolcomment

comment

pmisccheck

pcan

if plane < 0, plane = 0

if stagetool >= zero, pbld, n, *t, ptoolcomm, e

if stagetool >= zero, pbld, n, "M06", e

spaces=0

if output_z = yes,

[

preadbuf5

---

I don't know what you want to do with the ptoolcomm; you could put it on a separate line also. There's probably a more elegant way to do it, but maybe that will work.

[somename75]

It kinda worked, but for some reason it dropped the tool number, so I get an M6 on a line alone, but no tool call anywhere.

[mowens]

Maybe someone else can do a better job of helping you. Sorry.

[somename75]

No prob, thanks for your effort

[Tim Johnson]

Try this;

 

code:

---

ptlchg_com #Tool change common blocks

pcom_moveb

c_mmlt #Multiple tool subprogram call

#ptoolcomment

comment

pmisccheck

pcan

if plane < 0, plane = 0

if stagetool >= zero,

[

pbld, n, *t, ptoolcomm, e

pbld, n, "M06", e

]

spaces=0

if output_z = yes,

[

preadbuf5

---

Edit: or make sure there's an "*" in front of the "t".

[somename75]

That looks like it did it, thanks Tim

[Tim Johnson]