Need Help!- Any PCI-experts out there

[age_cph]

Hello guys,
Does anyone know how to write a pci that makes a dialogbox like this, including the digitise-option with all cpl's visible?
Please check out the picture attached.
Best regards
Allan

[Haeusser]

running off memory here only, you could do a start command,then move,rotate, end command. That would let you move to a certain cpl, not sure about if all are visible or not. Ill look tomarrow and get back with you, its doable though.

[tummen]

The best source of examples i have found is delivered with EC itself,
C:\Program Files (x86)\Planit\Edgecam 2011 R2\Cam\Operates includes (all?) menu operations as PCI files and if you find this selector somewhere in a menu in EC you could probably find its PCI file and figure out from all their code how they made it.

[Haeusser]

What exactly are you trying to do? I've got 2 ways to do this .

[age_cph]

Originally Posted by Haeusser What exactly are you trying to do? I've got 2 ways to do this .

I’ve been working my ass off trying to make a macro or PCI that lets me digitise the cpl and use the coordinate- and rotational information, relative to my sequence-cpl.
Need it for my post to output X,Y,Z,B moves relative to another CPL (the one I want to digitise) than the one I define in my sequence-start.

Does it make any sense? :-)

Originally Posted by tummen The best source of examples i have found is delivered with EC itself, C:\Program Files (x86)\Planit\Edgecam 2011 R2\Cam\Operates includes (all?) menu operations as PCI files and if you find this selector somewhere in a menu in EC you could probably find its PCI file and figure out from all their code how they made it.

Thanks Tummen, but I've already been through the PCI's in Operates, but I'm very new at this and what's written in then, doesn't make much sense to me.
Btw, as far as I can see, there is no PCI in that folder, that let's you digitise a CPL (?)

/Allan

[tummen]

Ok I did not go through them all to see.
But what you want to do sounds like a standard feature i EC.

Did you try Menu "Move" - Index select another CPL there?
you can even ask to Position to a CPL to get the rotation but after select Output relative To and get XYZ från another CPL.

And if you want to have a part i a special place in the mashine but want Zero to be in another then you select the CPL to have as Zero in Sequence Initial CPL
but also Set Mating Location to Post mating point you want and Mating CPL to the CPL that you want to use as locator for graphics.

Im just guessing what you actually need now so i might be solving "problems" you don´t have :-)

I just found the Index Operation, IndexOp.pci it has the selectionbox you asked about but the coding is very special in EC, like nothing i seen before.



%AddCmdModToOperation=[OpId],[cmdIndex],[#ModCplName]

[age_cph]

Originally Posted by tummen Ok I did not go through them all to see. But what you want to do sounds like a standard feature i EC. Did you try Menu "Move" - Index select another CPL there? you can even ask to Position to a CPL to get the rotation but after select Output relative To and get XYZ från another CPL. And if you want to have a part i a special place in the mashine but want Zero to be in another then you select the CPL to have as Zero in Sequence Initial CPL but also Set Mating Location to Post mating point you want and Mating CPL to the CPL that you want to use as locator for graphics. Im just guessing what you actually need now so i might be solving "problems" you don´t have :-) I just found the Index Operation, IndexOp.pci it has the selectionbox you asked about but the coding is very special in EC, like nothing i seen before. %AddCmdModToOperation=[OpId],[cmdIndex],[#ModCplName]

Thanks for you effort mate :-)

I need some kind of function (%macro, PCI, PDI or whatever) that lets me change which CPL, the index moves will be in relations to.

In this example (see attached picture), the CPL 1 is at the front of the 1st part and the datum is G54 (work offset set to B0) on the machine. The CPL 10 is at the front of the 2nd part and the datum is G55 (work offset set to B-90.0) on the machine.

When moving to CPL 11, it is essential that the output is G55 B90.0, and not B0 as it is now.

Does that make any sense?

Hälsningar Allan

[age_cph]

If I could just find the function “index move” (NOT the operation – just the move) %macro, PCI, PDI or whatever it is and make a modified copy… that would be really great

[age_cph]

Hello guys,
Are you there? - I'd really like to hear some more about this.
Best regards
Allan