Bill, Using the contents of the Step notes directly works well If you use minimal comments. The Step Notes, as well as Tool Notes, Material Notes and Job Notes, are limited to 255 characters. This includes any parentheses, spaces, carriage return and line feed characters. If you get carrier away you can quickly exceed this limit. As far as I know this limitation is not documented.
I prefer your "easy peasy" method myself and keep my comments relatively short. Others however must meet extensive documentation requirements from their shops. It is still good to know there are work arounds to most problems. ============================================= Fred Lauzus, CAM Programming Coordinator High Steel Structures, Incorporated mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.highsteel.com ============================================= -----Original Message----- From: Bill Payter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:30 AM To: SmartCAM Users Subject: [mfg-smartcam] Step notes You can put as many lines of comment in STEP NOTES as you like, I've put more than 10 lines and it works fine. Why mess about using #INCLUDE? Use this format in STEP NOTES, (for example):- (LINE1) (LINE2) (LINE3) etc. make sure you use brackets. In your .TMP file at the appropriate places put:- #EVAL(#S1=jos(st_notes)) Use #S1 wherever you want your 5 to 10 comment lines for that step. Easy peasy as we say in the UK!!! ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
