[MSFAB]

i want to be able to not have a line number in front of a comment. But in mpost the comments have to be on a line by itself. I want the rest of the program to have line numbers.

this is what the code should look like at a tool change

N50 ;--------------
* - comments
N51 ;--------------
N52 G17 T2 S2500

CODE SO FAR

1st tool change
';-----------------'
comments
';-----------------'
i[arcplane] t[tool] s[speed]
ect


I want the comment line not to have a line number in front of it.

anybody done this?


thanks
Marcus

[chmillman]

Hi,

Put an exclamation mark enclosed in single quotes '!' at the line where you want to suppress the line number.

1st tool change
';-----------------'
'!' Comments
';-----------------'
i[arcplane] t[tool] s[speed]

--ch

[MSFAB]

I tried that. but the comments have to be on a line by itself. it will error out and say cant understand word omments. That was the first thing I tried. I got it to work kinda. I changed the frequency switch to zero, and put a N[block] in every line witch meant defining a line code, but I get empty lines with line numbers in the canned cycles, which is weird.
thank you though
cheers Marcus

[chmillman]

Yeah you're correct, this does not seem to work with Comments - it does seem to work everywhere else... Maybe you need to contact your dealer... --ch

[MSFAB]

figured it out with some help From Paul Andrews,
you format your comment switch like this

comments !( ) Start and ending comment characters

this worked.
cheers
Marcus

[chmillman]

figured it out with some help From Paul Andrews

Ah, Mr. Ground Support himself! Cool, glad you got it sorted. --ch