post help

[sharles]

I don't do much editting of my posts. But recently I've noticed that the end of my drill/tap/etc. files seems to have a "bug" in it. I opened the post file, and I think it looks ok. Here it is:

 

peof #End of file for non-zero tool

pretract

comment

#Remove pound character to output first tool with staged tools

if stagetool = one, pbld, n, *first_tool, "M06", e

n, "M30", e

mergesub

clearsub

mergeaux

clearaux

"%", e

 

But this is what I'm getting:

 

N290 M0

N295 T1 M30

N300 M30

%

 

In line N295 I'm getting T1 M30, but I want it to be T1 M06.

 

Is this a post problem, or is some other parameter somewhere else overriding what I want?

 

Thanks!

 

Oh, I'm finally in X2 MR2 SP1, but this glitch has been present for me in plain X2 as well.

[Colin Gilchrist]

check your pretract post block. My guess is that the stagetool variable is not equal to 1, so that entire line (if stagetool=one...) isn't being output. So only the "M30" below is being output from peof. You can test this by putting another string literal output. change it to this:

 

code:

---

peof #End of file for non-zero tool 

pretract

comment

#Remove pound character to output first tool with staged tools

if stagetool = one, pbld, n, *first_tool, "M06", "test1", e

n, "M30", "test2", e

mergesub

clearsub

mergeaux

clearaux

"%", e

---

[sharles]

Colin,

 

Thanks for the reply but when I typed in what you suggested and posted another program it did the same thing as before. Any other suggestions? Or any one else?

 

Here is what my pretrac post block is. Is this where you thought something might be wrong?

 

pretract #End of tool path, toolchange

sav_absinc = absinc$

absinc$ = one

sav_coolant = coolant$

coolant$ = zero

#cc_pos is reset in the toolchange here

cc_pos$ = zero

gcode$ = zero

pbld, n$, sccomp, "M0", psub_end_mny, e$

# pbld, n, sgabsinc, sgcode, *sg28ref, "Z0.", scoolant, e

# pbld, n, *sg28ref, "X0.", "Y0.", protretinc, e

absinc$ = sav_absinc

coolant$ = sav_coolant

 

thanks if anyone can help.

[Tim Johnson]

sharles,

 

The peof from you first posting is from a V9 post and your pretract from an X post. Could you put up the X peof$ or the V9 pretract?

[bigjohn]

What about the $ missing in the e$'s? Would that have any effect. You said you're running X2.

 

 

John

[connormac]

John those are "#" out so they are skipped by the post anyway.

[connormac]

Sorry John my bad I was looking at the last post by sharles, I think you are right he need to try to make

f stagetool = one, pbld, n, *first_tool, "M06", e

n, "M30", e

 

to

f stagetool = one, pbld, n, *first_tool, "M06", e$

n, "M30", e$

[sharles]

Thanks for the replies. Actually my post does have the 2 dollar signs you suggested. When I copy and pasted from my post to this forum it must have taken out those dollar signs and I didn't recognize it.