format statements

[Cycle_Time_Killa]

We just got mastercam and I have been creating posts for our machines. One very simple problem I am having is getting the positional values to output in a different format. To be exact I am trying to get mplokuma.pst to output without decimals and trailing zeros to the .0001 place. I changed the post to:

# ---------------------------------------------

fmt 15 X #X default format

fmt 15 Y #Y default format

fmt 15 Z #Z default format

The formats were set to number 1 but changing them to 15 did not change my output.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[Allan Brown]

You're on the right track.

xabs, yabs, zabs are the variables actually output with the post. Those are the format assignments that should be modified.

[lovell110]

Cycle,

Try line 665,666,667 in your post. If your post is similar to mine it is set to fs2

[Cycle_Time_Killa]

Thank you both very much that did the trick. Whew was converting decimal values to integers by hand ever a pain :-()