Lathe program number change regenerate

[Mark VIII]

What is the logic behind having to regenerate all of the operations in MC lathe after changing your program number?

[Guest]

You'd have to ask someone at CNC Software but it's not just lathe

[RLeuschen]

I've found that if I use the machine properties dialog, then i have to regen to get the program# to change, if I use the right click on operations, then i do not. Hope that helps some.

 

 

[Colin Gilchrist]

22 minutes ago, Mark VIII said:

What is the logic behind having to regenerate all of the operations in MC lathe after changing your program number?

Are you changing it in the Machine Group Properties dialog? If that's where you want to set it, a simple Post modification can read the value you enter in that dialog box, without requiring a regeneration of all the operations.

[Mark VIII]

I am using the right click method and I have to regenerate.

[RLeuschen]

The difference may be a small post mod we did here. Due to some of our machines not liking a O0 program #, we added the following to the header sections. It auto changes 0 to 1, but leaves alone if any other.

 

pheader_custom         #Start of file
      "%", e$
      !spaces$
      spaces$ = zero
      

IF PROGNO$=0, PROGNO$=1, E$  # RPL added to keep program number from being 0 

     *progno$,scomm_str, sprogname$, scomm_end, e$

     scomm_str, "PROG NAME= ", sprogname$, scomm_end, e$

[Mark VIII]

Thank you