Mpmaster tool change question

[gms1]

I wrote a post a few years ago based off mpmaster post and I had to get rid of the tool change at the beginning of the program in the psof$ section of the post so I could put it at the end of the file. To do that I had to copy ptlchg_com to the psof section and removed the call to ptlchg_com in order to remove it (Thanks J Paris!). I tried it today on a new post i'm making with the new version of mpmaster and this doesn't work probably due to all the changes and what have ya.

I didn't like doing it that way, and I would like to make this post more universal for our machines so i'm wondering if there is a more elegant way of handling this? Is it possible to add some variable to check [if psof$ then skip ptlchg_com] and output the tool comment only? If I comment out pltchg_com in the psof section, it skips all the startup code for the cycle startup all the way past the g43 line.

[Tim Johnson]

You can try this;

 

Add a variable,

code:

---

psof_flg   : 0      #Flag to cancel first tool change

---

insert the variable;

code:

---

psof$            #Start of file for non-zero tool number

psof_flg = 1 #<<<<<<<<<<<<

ptravel

---

edit tool change from;

code:

---

      if stagetool >= zero,

[

if omitseq$ = 1 & tseqno > 0,

[

if tseqno = 2, n$ = t$

pbld, *n$, *t$, "M06", ptoolcomm, e$

]

else, pbld, n$, *t$, "M06", ptoolcomm, e$

]

---

to;

code:

---

      if stagetool >= zero,

[

if omitseq$ = 1 & tseqno > 0,

[

if tseqno = 2, n$ = t$

if psof_flg = 1, pbld, *n$, ptoolcomm, e$

else, pbld, *n$, *t$, "M06", ptoolcomm, e$

]

else,

[

if psof_flg = 1, pbld, n$, ptoolcomm, e$

else, pbld, n$, *t$, "M06", ptoolcomm, e$

]

]

psof_flg = c9k

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[gms1]

Thanks Tim ill give it a try after lunch

[gms1]

Tim that worked like a champ!! (After I spent 20 minutes figuring out I made a typo )

 

Thanks a bunch