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M.Bluedorn

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  1. I'm working on capturing the sub spindle grip position during the POCO operation. I'm using the 'stream_tool_op' function to get it. The problem is that the return has several different values as the tool op changes a few times during the operation. My question is, is there a way to isolate just one of the values returned? This is the code I'm using to grab the value And here are the returns that are posting. The third and fourth instances contain the value I'm trying to store.
  2. I'm using the Mill/Turn software. Thanks a ton Colin! That's all I was really wondering. I kept seeing mention of it, and just wasn't sure what was being discussed. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain it for me!
  3. I was only wondering what it is generally. Not how to manipulate it. I've gleaned from this forum that they have it locked down pretty tight.
  4. I've read a little about MP.net but can you go into more detail about it? What exactly is it?
  5. I replied back to the guy who gave me that code to hopefully help me understand how it is working. I'm already 'behind the eight ball' so to speak with my inexperience with the language, and to hear that it's going through some major changes is a little disheartening to hear given I've worked very hard to teach myself and learn what I have so far about the MP language.
  6. This is for a Doosan Mill/Turn. This particular piece of code is actually some example code a guy from CNC Software gave me to try and help me. Problem being I haven't had any experience with the 'stream' function, and other parts of this post. I'm still learning MP. I'm trying to capture a sub spindle axis origin so that I can use it in some logic in other places of the post.
  7. Whilst on the mastercam forum I got some help for an issue I'm trying to resolve. The help I got was a snippet of code I couldn't decipher what was going on, and no explanation of such. I'm still in the very early stages of learning/teaching myself how to manipulate and write code for MP. Without the help of this forum and mastercam's forum I would be out to lunch. I bring this problem here because it seems to be geared a little more towards the user trying to learn the language to some degree. I'm trying to capture my sub spindle's axis values and I failed using the legacy method and was told the new info method was the way to get it done. The snippet I'm posting is exactly how it was presented to me as 'an example'. If someone could please walk me through this code and what it is doing I would be extraordinarily grateful. Thanks.
  8. I added that just to get it to output anything at all. But even then I either got '0.' or '-9999.' I tried several different strategies and none of them gave me anything other than that.
  9. I've been attempting to teach myself how to manipulate these posts. I've had some very small victories but for the most part I'm being bricked. Frustration level alpha. I have the MP Documentation and have followed it to capture and use a parameter but nothing I try will return any value at all. The value I'm tryinig to grab is the Z position relative to the end of stock material for a lathe. It's param # 17435. In the documentation is states that all I need to do is have user defined variable and add this this line in the pmachineinfo$ post block... if prmcode$ = 17435, main_stk_pos = rpar(sparameter$,1) In order to get it to work at all I had to add this line fmt "" 2 main_stk_pos "" #Main spindle stock position in the Toolchange / NC output Variable Formats section of the post The only output I can get out of it is '0.' I've attached a screenshot from the MP Documentation of the variable I'm trying to grab. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
  10. Upon doing some digging and talking to my post guy at our Mastercam reseller, it is looking like even attempting to grab the parameter for any use at all would be not available as they have binned all of the POCO part of our paid post. I was unaware this was a thing until today while I was trying to figure this out. Needless to say I have a lot to learn still.
  11. Hello all. This is my first posting but I've been gleaming knowledge from this forum for quite some time. So a belated thank you is due. What I'm trying to do is grab and store my POCO grab position which is param 13212, and then use that number in basically a comment at the beginning of the program. I've tried several different combinations of strategies I've learned from the MP Post Documentation and cannot get it to post anything other than the dreaded '-9999.' Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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