Tool Retract - Rapid or Feed ?

[rocheey1]

Is there a way to trap whether "Rapid Retract" option has been checked in an operations' Tool Parameters page? (Short of parsing all GCode lines ?)

[K2csq7]

Hmmm, I looked in the X5 parameter guide, I saw one for lathe (13582), but can't find it for mill....

Do you know how to do a parameter dump?

If so, shut off rapid retract, post, turn rapid retract back on, post again (change name so it doesn't overwrite), and then compare the files looking for the parameter that changed....

If you don't know how to do a parameter dump....

search for this in your post...

  #"pparameter", ~prmcode$, ~sparameter$, e$

remove the # from the beginning of the line (# comments out the line)

[rocheey1]

Already done that. Posted a single op with it turned on, reposted the op with it turned off, and compared the NCI's using Cimco's file compare. The only difference was an extra GCode line of a feedrate move to another Z that turned out to be the feed plane.

 

Seems easy enough to find when comparing files, but in practice, I dont see how I can tell if a z+ feed move is the rapid being turned off, or just some funky position that happened to appear in some contour....

 

I'd hoped that there was some double-secret pre-defined post param ....

[K2csq7]

Do you know about "control flags"? (AKA contour flags)

This may be helpful, they are all predefined variables and provide lots of good info you may be able to use.