Conditional formatting in a post

[dem]

Does anyone know how to do conditional formatting in a Mastercam ver9.0 post ?

I am trying to create a post for a 4 axis (rail & side head) lathe. I want to use a misc value to select the axis and output either X/Z or U/W code. (Example 1.Rail 2.Side (mi6) ?)

Then in the post I would like to perform a conditional format for xabs and zabs.

 

If mi6=1

fmt N 4 n

fmt X 2 xabs

fmt X 2 Zabs #FOR X&Z RAIL HEAD

.

.

if mi6=2

fmt N 4 n

fmt U 2 xabs

fmt W 2 zabs #FOR U & W SIDE HEAD

 

I know that I can make separate posts for each axis, but I only want to manage one post.

Any suggestions ?

[Allan Brown]

You can't use if statements for formatting this way. Check your post documentation for 'reformatting' functions: newfs and nwadrs

 

These can be used in the context of an if statement to achieve your goals.

[dem]

Dave-

I went thru the books that came with Ver 9 and do not have post documentation. The only book I have is from ver 5.0. I ordered the post CD this afternoon. It will not be coming in for a few days.

The old book does not reference "reformating" newfs or nwadrs

Can you explain ?

[Allan Brown]

code:

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     11 September 97 - MP, MPL, MPWIRE V5.00

Functions for format statement and prefix letter reassignment are

added. 'newfs' allows a different format statement to be associated

with a variable. The format statement must be defined. It returns

a zero on failure and one on success. Care should be used not to

round a value for later output.

'nwadrs' allows the prefix string to be changed. It returns a zero if

the new prefix was truncated to 15 characters or one if not truncated.

Ex.

fs 1 3.3l

fs 2 3.3t

fmt X 1 var

var : 1.2

stry Y

panypostblock

*var

result = newfs (2, var)

*var

result = nwadrs (stry, var)

*var

Output is: X001.2 X1.200 Y1.200

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