Posting the quote character to NC

[darthraider]

I'm trying to print a quotation mark into an NC file. Master cam interprets it as a part of the code. The post code looks like this:

 

code:

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"FARCALL  "BACKGROUNDSUBROUTINES.PGM" "CLOCKSTART" ", e$

"END DFS", e$

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And of course I want it to look like this in the NC file:

code:

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FARCALL  "BACKGROUNDSUBROUTINES.PGM" "CLOCKSTART"

END DFS

---

But instead it comes out like this:

code:

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FARCALL CLOCKSTART, e$ END DFS  

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Any ideas for this newbie?

[Dave Ball]

Try using the ascii number for the quotation mark, its 34

[3rdstring]

You have to use the ascii equivalent to get the double quote character

 

For example your code int he post would be

 

code:

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"FARCALL ", 034,  "BACKGROUNDSUBROUTINES.PGM", 034, " ", 034, "CLOCKSTART", 034, e$

"END DFS", e$

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HTH

 

:edit: yeah what he said

[darthraider]

Thanks for you help gentlemen, I was able to print the character. There is now, however, a new problem with the ASCII character:

 

When I use the 034 command a space is printed before and after the character which throws the mill controller into a fit. Is there any way to remove that formatting?

 

Is there any source for these sorts of information that I haven't found. Like a book or guide of some sorts? I've fallen asleep to Mastercam's Post Processor Reference about twelve times and haven't gleaned any useful information.

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

You can use the no_spc$ command to suppress unwanted spaces within a postline, like this ->

 

code:

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        "FARCALL", 34, no_spc$, "BACKGROUNDSUBROUTINES.PGM", no_spc$, 34, 34, no_spc$, "CLOCKSTART", no_spc$, 34, e$

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Will give you this output in the NC ->

 

FARCALL "BACKGROUNDSUBROUTINES.PGM" "CLOCKSTART"

[3rdstring]

You want to add

 

spaces$=0

 

at the beginning of the block and

 

spaces$=sav_spc

 

at the end.

 

As for documentation there is a V9 post reference you can get from your reseller & there is some post documentation in the docs folder of your MC installation.

 

:edit: yea what he said again!!!