Dear Wjman,
psevin has given the exact reply.
When you write #500 = #3012, it will record the Clock Time at that moment in the macro #500. If the Right Hand corner of you screen shows 9:23:40, the macro #500 will store a value of 92340. Similarly it will store the clock time in #501.
(You can use anyother macro like #100 or #1 etc. However, #500 serie Macros do not wipe out after Power Off, whereas others do.
Now you can do manual calculation to find out the cutting Time. Or you can write another complex Macro Program to do Cycle time calculation and give you Cycle Time readily. However, note that, we need to use these Macro feature, only where it is really necessary. Because these Macro Programs consume valuable time of the CNC Processor.
smabhyan
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