Macro Help

[AndyF]

I'm writing a program for a family of parts, and I'm trying to get the machine to turn block delete on inside the program assuming that a different variable is a certain number. Here's what the beginning of my program would look like:

O00001
#501= 3 (this is a changing number depending on part number);
IF [ #501 LT 7 ] THEN #3032= 1; (This is where I would want block delete on assuming that variable #501 is less than 7).

The problem I'm getting with this is that it alarms out and says it (#3032) is a read only variable, though it's not listed as such in the Haas manual. I tried to unlock variables as well to no avail. If there's anything I'm missing, could you let me know?

Thanks,
Andy

[JWK42]

Can you use GOTO to jump past the lines you want to block delete

Ex. IF [ #501 LT 7 ] GOTO200;

N200 would be the line to jump to

[AndyF]

I thought about doing that, but I was looking for an easier way (hey, I'm lazy). The program nests 4 parts together, and each part would have 2 holes omitted from 1-6 inside a G81. It would be no problem, and probably the simplest solution if this doesn't work, but I'm still curious to try to get the block delete to work. Thanks for the suggestion.

[christinandavid]

Are you refering to what I would call Block Skip ( / ) ?

If so I would be surprised if you could change the status of that mode when cycle is running (for safety reasons, you don't want to keep flicking it on/off if you are skipping a large number of lines...).

Does it switch on/off freely on Haas control (as does Opt Stop) during a cycle?

DP

[Pondo]

I thought macros were an option that had to be purchased - like rigid tapping etc. - that came in a package when you bought the machine. If it was not purchased, it won't work.
Not 100% positive on that, but I remember seeing something like that on the purchase agreements.