Greetings all; Working on boring a hole in the end of the crossfeed screw extension, I was starting and stopping the machine (my little monster lathe) by putting an M5, a backaway x move and and a 15 second pause so I could blow the playground clean and see if a piece of the screw would fit the hole yet.
The variable in my program that controlled the x, #<_current_rad> was around .960mm in the onscreen dro, which made perfect sense, but once after calling the editor to adjust the final value in the WHILE statement, I forgot where it was, so I hit F5 and entered: (debug,#<_current_rad>) expecting to get about 1.11, but the debug said it was 2.41! So I restarted it just a smidge smaller, and it progressed thru that 1.11 size on the DRO, and I let it run until the screw fit with about a thou of slop, exactly the fit I wanted. By then the DRO said the radius was in the 1.26 area. But, on the mdi screen, I still got that 2.41. There's a 2.40 as the while compare, but there is not a 2.41 anyplace in the code. So thats a head scratcher here in the middle of WV. Being able to query a variable is a very effective troubleshooter. So, can this be looked at? I also noted that the MDI buffer problem that Andy said was fixed, has not made it thru the pipeline to either of my shop buildings machines yet by late afternoon today, despite being updated before I started spinning any spindle motors this afternoon. Tomorrow I need to see if I can find a suitable donor nut to rethread to fit the tapered thread on the end of this. I may even have to make the whole thing. A 3/8" nut hasn't got the strength by the time its bored out and taper threaded, too thin walled IMNSHO. Why is it I always wind up needing something whose main ingredient is grade 12 unobtainium? Something in the metric drawers at TSC might be useful. Thanks everybody. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
