Changing 3 decimal place output to 4 decimal places

[m_morgan]

I want to output X, Y and Zs with 3 decimal places, and I,J and Ks with 4 decimal places, in the hope that the Fanuc 16i control will stop throwing up errors with arcs.

 

I've changed the format statements from '2' (3 decimal places in metric) to '12', which should be 4 decimal places):

 

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

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

#Default english/metric position format statements

fs2 1 0.8 0.7 #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

 

fmt X 2 xout #X position output

fmt Y 2 yout #Y position output

fmt Z 2 zout #Z position output

fmt X 2 g74xabs #G74 X position output

fmt Y 2 g74yabs #G74 Y position output

fmt Z 2 g74zabs #G74 Z position output

fmt I 12 i$ #Arc center description in X

fmt J 12 j$ #Arc center description in Y

fmt K 12 k$ #Arc center description in Z

fmt I 12 iout #Arc center description in X

fmt J 12 jout #Arc center description in Y

fmt K 12 kout #Arc center description in Z

fmt R 12 arcrad$ #Arc Radius

 

But the NC output still only has 3 decimal places for I, J and K values.

 

Am I missing something else?

[Storkman]

My original mpmaster uses fmt 3 for i,j,k. Which is delta not absolute.

[m_morgan]

All sorted! Thank you Storkman!

 

Now outputting 4 decimal places for IJKs and 3dp for XYZs.

 

I am oficially a Happy Bunny. :-)

[Storkman]

GTH