Programming question
Last night I was using Bobcad to write a program to cut a 3D swept surface, for that matter I could have been spot drilling holes and still had this problem... I opened up the parms menu, entered the codes to get into the misc. file and changed everything over to read text files... So far, so good, do that everyday... The problems started after I wrote a conversational program (1010) that would basically rotates the program 60 degrees and then calls up my Bobcad program (HH.TXT), 6 times to cut spoke pattern in the wheel... Since conversational will not let you type in letters, only numbers in the call box, I then reopened up my program (1010) in the text editor and changed all the calls to (HH.TXT). When I ran a verify, it tells me (HH.TXT) does not exist...
Here's what I don't understand, I opened the special NC-CAM side of Bobcad and typed in the text version of (1010) verbatim and then saved as a .TXT file, reloaded it in my machine and PRESTO!!
Is there something else in the machines parameters I am not toggling that needs to be changed in order to use a combination of conversation programs coupled with 3rd party generated programs??
All I toggle currently in the (main>parms>setup>misc) folder is:
Resolve DNC programs...............YES
Full DOS file names...................YES
I have this problem on both the centurion V and VII machines...
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