Print cotation mark character

[turkis]

Hi everyone!

I'm a newbe in Mastercam and this is my first post here.

 

I need a post processor for a Sinumerik and so I'm editing a mpmaster post for me. It has been fun, I learned a lot with this (now I know what's a nci file!), but is difficult because I use to program gcode, java and C and this is a strange language...

 

for now I have one question that really bothers me:

 

- I want to print a special charater, the cotation mark " but I can't find enougth documentation on the web.

I need to print the tool name instead of the tool number, but the name must be inside cottation marks

example: 

T1 M06; CENTERDRILL

must be:

T "CENTERDRILL" M06

 

in java or C is printf("T\""%s"\"", toolName);

 

btw... for now I have made the header and footer, tool change and CYCLE81 drill cycle

 

where can I find documentation? this is not easy and without documentation is really hard core...

 

many thanx in advance and congrats for your forum =D

[turkis]

my CYCLE81 (so far...)MCALL CYCLE81(50.,0.,3.,-20.)X9.634 Y14.106X32.685 Y-22.708X-11.526 Y-31.825X-14.794 Y20.815X-23.912 Y34.061X-78.272 Y29.073MCALL

CYCLE81 (RTP, RFP, SDIS, DP, DPR)

 

RTP – Return plane or Retraction plane (absolute)

RFP – Reference plane (absolute)

SDIS – Safety distance (enter without sign)

DP – Final drilling depth (absolute)

DPR – Final drilling depth relative to reference plane (enter without sign)

 

this is different from fanuc's G81... in reallity there's no G98/99 option in nci code, you must check if the last Z pos and retract value are the same to set the G98/G99 option in G81 cycle. 

 

my RTP equals to initht$ (cleance or last Z)

my RFP equals to drl_sel_tos$ (top of stock)

my SDIS equals to abs(drl_sel_tos$-drl_sel_ref$)

my DP equals to depth$

you don't need the DPR since you have the DP.

 

I'm not use to work with SINUMERIK, I'm learning this also =D

[turkis]

ok problem solved.

 

use the number 34 for " output.

 

my result:

pbld, *n$, "T-"spaces$ = 034,*strtool$,34spaces$ = sav_spc"M06", ptoolcomm, e$

output:

N100 T-"CENTERDRILL 12" M06 ;CENTERDRILL 12

note: sav_spc is used to store de default spaces$, defined in the control file. in this case I need two formatations, one space and no spaces between words. Because mastercam uses this variable(spaces$) to compose lines with words, if space$=0, the code will come out with no spaces. The "T" statment and 34 statment are treated as words, so if spaces$=1 the result is T- " toolName " instead of T-"toolName".

If spaces$=0 the whole line will be N100T-"CENTERDRILL 12"M06;CENTERDRILL 12 and could be different from the rest of the code, deppending of the spaces definition on control file.

To avoid this you can set the sapce$ to zero, use your code and then reset the spaces$ to default, and then the rest of the code.

 

 

any doubt or error found tell me please =D

[jlw™]

The official forum has a Sinumerik post available for download.

[turkis]

where?

[jlw™]

Go to tech exchange, click post in the options, the first two are siemens.

 

Link:

https://community.mastercam.com/techexchange

 

Here's what it looks like:

 

[turkis]

thanx =D

[Colin Gilchrist]

The MP language has been enhanced over the years, so that using the ASCII Literal "34" is no longer necessary.

 

To output a double quote character, you now enclose the string in "single quote characters".

 

smy_string : 'This string contains "double quote" characters.'

 

That will let you use double quotes for string output.

 

Another trick; instead of continually manipulating the 'spaces$' variable to control spacing, leave "spaces$ = 1", and use the 'no_spc$' parameter to delete the individual spaces between "parameters" on the output line.

 

Also, note that because 'strtool$' is a string variable, there is no need to "force" output with the asterisk (*) character. It will always be forced. Only numeric variables respond to the (*) character...

     '"', no_spc$, strtool$, no_spc$, '"', e$