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Need Help With Macro to add notes to nc program set up sheet

josh.cowley.ctd — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:32:41 GMT

Can anyone help and explain to me what I'm doing wrong here? I am defiantly a macro noob and really want to get better at them.

I am working on a macro to write my datum locations to the nc program notes so I don't have to retype it every job for the guys in the shop to get more clarification of location

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//CREATES SELECTABLE OPTIONS IN A USER INPUT WINDOW
STRING ARRAY A[] = {"Top","Centered","Bottom"}

//NAME OF USER INPUT WINDOW
INT Z = INPUT CHOICE $A "Select Z Location?"

//CHOOSES Z OPTION 1
if $z == 0 {
TOP

//CHOOSES Z OPTION 2
} elseif $z == 1 {
CENTER

//CHOOSES Z OPTION 3
} elseif $z == 2 {
BOTTOM

EDIT NCPROGRAM $active_NCPROGRAM NOTES "Z" HOW DO I GET THIS LINE TO WRITE THE CHOSEN TEXT FROM $z VARIABLE

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If anyone would lend their expertise I would be grateful

Thank You

Re: Need Help With Macro to add notes to nc program set up sheet

Sean571 — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:52:43 GMT

//CREATES SELECTABLE OPTIONS IN A USER INPUT WINDOW STRING ARRAY A[] = {"Top","Centered","Bottom"} //NAME OF USER INPUT WINDOW INT Z = INPUT CHOICE $A "Select Z Location?" // Create Build the Note as a string STRING ncNotes = "Z " + $A[$Z] // Set the notes equal to the $ncNotes variable EDIT NCPROGRAM ; NOTES $ncNotes

Re: Need Help With Macro to add notes to nc program set up sheet

josh.cowley.ctd — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:16:43 GMT

Thank you very much for your assistance!!! I greatly appreciate it!

Re: Need Help With Macro to add notes to nc program set up sheet

josh.cowley.ctd — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:19:20 GMT

For anyone interested, here is the final result. This will add your datum location to the ncprogram user defined notes, which will show in your set up sheets

Thanks again Sean for your help!

//Adds notes to "NCPROGRAMS USER DEFINED NOTES"

EDIT PAGE NCPROGRAMNOTES1

QUIT FORM NCPROGRAMNOTES

//CREATES X

//CREATES SELECTABLE OPTIONS IN A USER INPUT WINDOW
STRING ARRAY A[] = {"Left","Center","Right"}

//NAME OF USER INPUT WINDOW
INT X = INPUT CHOICE $A "Select X Location?"

// Create Build the Note as a string
STRING ncNote1 = "X " + $A[$X]

//CREATES Y
//CREATES SELECTABLE OPTIONS IN A USER INPUT WINDOW
STRING ARRAY B[] = {"Front","Center","Back"}

//NAME OF USER INPUT WINDOW
INT Y = INPUT CHOICE $B "Select Y Location?"

// Create Build the Note as a string
STRING ncNote2 = "Y " + $B[$Y]

//CREATES Z
//CREATES SELECTABLE OPTIONS IN A USER INPUT WINDOW
STRING ARRAY C[] = {"Top","Centered","Bottom"}

//NAME OF USER INPUT WINDOW
INT Z = INPUT CHOICE $C "Select Z Location?"

// Create Build the Note as a string
STRING ncNote3 = "Z " + $C[$Z]

// ADDS MULTIPLE VARIBLES TOGETHER FOR FINAL STRING
STRING ncNotes = $ncNote1+","+" "+ncNote2+","+" "+ncNote3

// Set the notes equal to the $ncNotes variable
EDIT NCPROGRAM ; NOTES $ncNotes

Re: Need Help With Macro to add notes to nc program set up sheet

nubrandao — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:41:53 GMT

Can you show a imagem hás exemplo?

Re: Need Help With Macro to add notes to nc program set up sheet

ramaprasad_narayan — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:05:29 GMT

Hi

Could you please share a report how it is working