How to tell the shape of Stock Setup?

[cncah]

I'm completely new at trying to modify a generic post and am getting close to my goal

at customizing our header output. I've got everything working the way we want so far,

but the issue I see us running into is an error occurring if the user has selected a stock

type other than rectangular in Stock Setup. Is there a way of determining which type the

user has selected so I can write an if statement around certain situations? Any help would

be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

[Guest]

Something out of some post work I have done......

 

pstock_info # DETERMINE STK NOTES

            if stck_ht$ = 0 & stck_wdth$ = 0 , pfinished

            if stck_ht$ > 0 & stck_wdth$ > 0 , psquare

            if stck_ht$ > 0 & stck_wdth$ = 0 , pround

 

pfinished  # OUTPUT OLD PART

            "(",no_spc$,"SOME WORK FROM PREVIOUS OP ALREADY DONE",no_spc$, ")",e$

            "(",no_spc$,"***MAKE SURE TO READ ALL NOTES ON ROUTER FOR THIS OP***",no_spc$, ")",e$

 

psquare     # OUTPUT STK

            material_ht = stck_ht$

            material_wd = stck_wdth$

            material_thk = stck_thck$

            "(","PART IS"," ", material_ht, no_spc$, 34 ," X ", material_wd, no_spc$, 34 , ," X ", material_thk, no_spc$, 34 ," PIECE OF STK.", ")",e$

            #"(","PART IS","", stck_ht$ ," BY", stck_wdth$ ," BY", stck_thck$ ," PIECE OF STK.", ")",e$   # original line

 

pround      # OUTPUT LATHE BLANK

            "(","PART IS","", stck_ht$ ," DIA BY", stck_thck$ ," THICK" ,")", e$

[cncah]

I couldn't get this to work correctly:

 

if stck_ht$ > 0 & stck_wdth$ = 0 , pround

 

But if I changed it to this:

 

if stck_ht$ > 0 & stck_thck$ = 0 , pround

 

It seemed to come out right. I'm using the Generic Fanuc 3 Axis Mill

post to create a new post by the way. Didn't mention that before.

[cncah]

Okay, I was reading this thread: http://www.emastercam.com/board/topic/61135-capturing-the-stock-type-from-stock-setup/?hl=%2Bstock+%2Btype

But can't seem to get it to work for my header info. I keep getting the -1 value that the OP was getting. How could I implement this?