RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: PLC's and Macros

Wayne, Others:

What I've been working on is a program that allows the user to select either
a fractional, numbered, letter drill, American Tap, or Metric Tap and draw a
circle that corresponds either to the size of the drill or the "correct" tap
or clearance drill. It does this by writing a series of statements to the
Windows clip board to define the circle, layer, etc. Once done, the user
uses the VectorCAD "Edit->PasteSpecial->to PLC" command to direct Vector to
draw and label the appropriate hole.

The program is compiled using Borland's Delphi, Release 6.0 personal
edition, which is available from www.borland.com for the price of a 150
Mbyte download. It uses no components which are not common to the Borland
Delphi-1 compiler, so it should compile under any version of Borland's
Delphi if the comment style is changed from the C++ (//) style to the Pascal
({}) style.

Unfrorunately, it is not able to import any information from VectorCAD, but
can only export commands to VectorCAD.

Wayne - Can you comment about the programs that you've written? The language
that you've used to write them in?

Fred - Will the new 32 bit version be expanding the number of commands that
the PLC understands?

-- Jerry Jankura
Strongsville, Ohio
So many toys, So little time....


| -----Original Message-----
| From: wayne_j_hill@... [mailto:wayne_j_hill@...]
| Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 10:33 AM
| To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
| Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: PLC's and Macros
|
|
| Alan,
|
| I believe what Jerry was saying is, he is writing a program using a
| programming language (BASIC, PASCAL, Etc...) that creates PLC line
| statements from variables that are imported into Vector.
|
| Ask Fred about the DDE interface for Vector and what it can do! ( I
| have written some DDE programs for Fred in the past. )