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[ChrisD]

Can anyone tell me why when I force output of mr2

the I get this: G91 Bmr2 90. Is it something to do with the format statement? I would like it to com out like this: G91 B90.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Chris

[Guest]

You need a format assignment statement. It should look something like this:

 

fmt B 2 mr2 #Format misc. real 2

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

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Is it something to do with the format statement?

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Yes, it is.

If you output the value of a variable that does not have a format assigned to it, the default format used is format #1. In this special situation the name of the variable is output along with it's value. One reason for this is to let you know that you have not done something you want to do -> assign a format to the variable.

 

Assign a format to 'mr2', something like this ->

fmt B 1 mr2

 

Note that this also gets you the letter 'B',

so if you had "B" hard-coded in your PST, you will want to remove that.

[ChrisD]

Actually I had this thought just after I sent the posting.

 

I had to change: fmt mr2 4

 

to: fmt 4 mr2

 

And it worked fine.

 

It seems it will output the actual name of the real value plus the given value if you tell it

that mr2 has a certain decimal value

 

Thanks guys.

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

Chris,

 

The rule in MP is:

 

If a variable has not been formatted for output via a Format Assigment (FMT), then the variable will be output using Format Statement #1 (fs2 1) and with the variable name as a prefix. If you are using X,Y,Z, XR,YR,ZR,XH,YH,ZH they are formatted to FS 1 with a prefix of X,Y,Z automatically. The same olds true for I,J,K except the prefix is I,J,K.

 

I hope this helps!