topic Re: MACRO: Drilling Diameter Selection in PowerMill Forum

MACRO: Drilling Diameter Selection

powermillN5SN5 — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:37:52 GMT

Hey folks,

I'm having an issue getting this macro to identify user input strings and inputting them into the required fields.

Here is what the macro look like so far.

STRING $diameter = INPUT "What is the diameter of the your drill?"

//Take user data and start building the program
IF $diameter <= 1.5 {

IMPORT TEMPLATE ENTITY TOOLPATH TMPLTSELECTORGUI "Drilling/Drilling.ptf"
EDIT TPPAGE TOOL
CREATE TOOL ; DRILL
EDIT TOOL ; DIAMETER $diameter //this line is where I am getting the issue

} ELSE {

MESSAGE INFO "That is a not a valid Diameter."

}

The macro is quite short as I am stuck on that one line.

Any help would be awesome.

Thanks guys!

Re: MACRO: Drilling Diameter Selection

rafael.sansao — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:46:12 GMT

REAL $diameter = INPUT "What is the diameter of the your drill?"
IF $diameter <= 1.5 {
	IMPORT TEMPLATE ENTITY TOOLPATH TMPLTSELECTORGUI "Drilling/Drilling.ptf"
	EDIT TPPAGE TOOL
	CREATE TOOL ; DRILL
	EDIT TOOL ; DIAMETER $diameter
} ELSE {
	MESSAGE INFO "That is a not a valid Diameter."
}

Re: MACRO: Drilling Diameter Selection

powermillN5SN5 — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:49:42 GMT

Thank you!

Can't believe I put STRING instead of REAL....

I'm an idiot.. haha

Re: MACRO: Drilling Diameter Selection

powermillN5SN5 — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:56:18 GMT

I'm now getting an RPM value error. I've tried several variants.

Essentially I want it to input an equation that states "191 / $diameter"

EDIT RPM "191" / $diameter // this line is giving me an error..

Thanks!

Re: MACRO: Drilling Diameter Selection

rafael.sansao — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:04:19 GMT

EDIT RPM ${191/$diameter}