On 02/01/2012 10:01 AM, BRIAN GLACKIN wrote: > Hi all. > > I tried to ask this question on IRC last eve and had trouble staying in > channel. > > equipment - 25" X 49" X 4" gantry router for wookwork - all cutting is 2.5D > > I have a subroutine o100 that at present, I pass three values too > Value 1 is the total depth of cut > Value 2 is the incremental depth of cut > Value 3 is the feed rate > > My past practice has been to cut and paste the gcode of a part into this > subroutine. This has been fine for multiples of a single part. I recently > started calling a gcode file directly from inside the subroutine which > worked fine. > > What I would like avoid constantly cutting and pasting code (or > filenames) into my "parts program" subroutine. I thought I could send via > the subroutine a fourth value with the file name. The thought being that I > can have a series of calls for different parts that I can cut out from the > same sheet without having to mash up a massive gcode file. > > So I modified the O100 to add that fourth value. > > In the subroutine, I tried calling the file with O<#4> call. > > ON loading the code into Linuxcnc, I get the error "Near Line XXX urnary > operation expected ....." Or something to that effect. I typed the exact > error in IRC channel last eve if anyone saw that. > > > Can I pass a filename through a subroutine call?? > > I did try renaming the file to a numer (10000.ngc) and tried passing both > 10000 and 10000.ngc.
I believe the answer is yes (I've done it in the past). You can pass a numeric argument. Then: O#4 call ... Will call O100 if argument 4 is 100. When this is called, I believe the interpreter will look for O100 in the usual way. That includes looking for o100 in a file named o100.ngc (I think). I believe that the o in o100 must be lower case because the interpret converts everything to lowercase as the first step in the parsing. At any rate, the O#4 should be treated EXACTLY as if the code was written as O100 call if #4 has the value 100. BTW: That's another place where it would be nice to have variables with string values. Ken > > Brian > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
