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I would suggest printing out the Customization Guide so that you can have a
hard reference to most of the macro commands right in front of you. Also,
it gives you a little kick start tutorial in there. But in the end, what I
think you'll need to do is pick out something that you do in SmartCAM that you
do all of the time that you can automate. Make it a very modest
need. For instance, I use Pturn and usually the first thing I do with the
finish turn tool is to face the part. After I faced the part I would do a
lead-in of .05" and a lead-out of .02". Well the first macro I wrote was
to automate this task. Now, after I define the line element I execute macro
lio.mcl (lead in, out) and it's taken care of.
If you keep at it, you'll be dressing up your macro's to make them more and
more useful until one day you'll be working on one that's turned into a
monster. The more you work on it to make it "better" the more fangs it
grows until it is something completely out of your control. It will want
to crash for some reason that you won't be able to figure out until you set
multiple error traps and then with a big sigh of relief you will have (finally)
found the offending code and with bloodshot eyes you'll finally fix the last of
the errors (or you'll work around the undocumented "features".) Then, when
the macro runs all the way through and performs it's task you'll truly
understand where the power of SmartCAM is.
At least, that's what I've heard.
Daryl
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Title: Macro wannabee
- [mfg-smartcam] Macro wannabee Doug Boyd
- Re: [mfg-smartcam] Macro wannabee Daryl Hatch
- Re: [mfg-smartcam] Macro wannabee Jon Baker
- RE: [mfg-smartcam] Macro wannabee John Coulston
- Re: [mfg-smartcam] Macro wannabee Jeff Guse
