2.5D and Command Line Messages

[2_many_hobbies]

I have a manual Z on my mill and need to come up with some sort of macro that will feed hold, tell me what Z depth to goto, I then press continue and away we go.

I can figure out how to feed hold but not how to display messages on the ticker or in a message box.

NOTE: Im looking for an all gcode solution so no VB macros are allowed...

[bborb]

Many CNC controls allow uppercase text to be displayed as long as they are in parenthesis in the program. Not sure about your control, try putting some words in parenthesis in your G-code program and see if they display on your CNC control when you run the program.

[2_many_hobbies]

I should mention im using Mach 3... I currently have this:

M0 (Down)
G01 X-0.13 Y1.28
M0 (UP)
G00 X1.63 Y1.10
M0 (Down)
G01 X1.13 Y1.10
M0 (Up)
G00 X1.63 Y0.93

I did this using some console searching regular expressions to insert Down Before G01 and Up afterwords but the wording in brackets id displayed in the status bar even if im 10 lines away from that particular command.

I remember seeing a thread about displaying messages in Mach with something like M00 msgbox(Down) or something but I cant find it.