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I'm setting up an Xkey KX24 to use with my Acorn and have used the setup downloaded from Centroid, but am modifying the keys. Everything works great, except setting up an Aux key. When I program a button to trigger Aux key 3 <ctrl F3> Acorn acts as if I've hit F3 and tosses me into the MDI. If I pre...

No thank you, I'm already writing multiline "macros" to do something similar... this is too good.

We're using 5.22 ... time to upgrade?

I'm not finding it in the documentation when trying to use SetSystemVariable. public CentroidAPI.CNCPipe.ReturnCode SetUserVariable(int variableNumber, double newValue) { var cncPipe = new CentroidAPI.CNCPipe.Job(m_pipe); return cncPipe.SetSystemVariable(variableNumber, newValue); } Results in: 'CNC...

I know how to get a user variable using GetSystemVariable.

Is there a way to Set a user variable before a job is run. I can't find a SetSystemVariable.

Thanks!

I never noticed those.. Thanks!

I have a program that is monitoring where things are in a job so it fires off external routines to let the workers know what's going on and what's coming up. I initially was monitoring a variable so that when it got to 100 at the end of the job it would know it's done. Also the GCode is sending text...

At the completion of a job I'd like it to load the no_job_loaded.cnc file automatically.

I've not found any documentation to accomplish this in the GCode file itself. Is this actually possible?

Thanks in advance.

That works!
Thanks!

Is it possible to configure a button on the VCP launch an external program?

Thanks in advance.