FMT Statement Error

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

I am setting up a couple of user defined variables in the X4 MPMaster per the following

 

fmt D 21 bcd47

bcd47 = drl_prm1$

 

I get an error when posting

 

25 Sep 2009 09:28:29 AM - <2> - PST LINE (970) - The format statement number is not defined (default to 1)

 

Why is this? Works fine in my other posts (older ones tho)

[Tim Johnson]

Do you have the 21 statement here?;

 

code:

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

# ^= tells MP to omit '.' if a 'whole' number,output '.' for 'real' number

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

#Default english/metric position format statements

fs2 1 0.7 0.6 #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 8 5 0 5 0l #Integer, force five 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 (feedrate)

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[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Huh, good save Tim. Wonder why they would have differnt fs2 statements in different posts...

 

Oh well! Works great now, TKS!!

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

Randy,

 

The FS2 section is NOT predefined or standard, however posts that leave CNC do try to follow the same definitions but anyone can add, delete and modify this section as needed so it becomes the post writers choice here.

 

ofcourse even with thew above error you would get NC output but the numerical formatting would not be correct. Format statement #1 would have been used automatically for formatting the output of the varible because #21 was not defined.

 

Now if we were not reporting these errors you could potentially have a problem at the machine depending on what the value was and what the value was being used for.