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By Brian Glick of Vermeer Corporation Here is a macro I developed to allow operators to calculate their own fixture offsets right on the...

By Tom Sorrentino I was reading "The Optional Stop newsletter, Issue 85", particularly the "Macro Maven: Rounding or truncating to a...

Suggested by Alejandro Garcia of Extreme Machine, Inc. In a previous blog post, we published a custom macro to record the settings for...

Parameters are used by control manufacturers to allow machine tool builders – and end users – to specify many things about the individual...

Counting cycles can be helpful in several ways. Past articles in The Optional Stop have shown two great applications. One will serve as a...

I can perform a square-root operation such as #100=SQRT[9] which of course sets the #100 to 3. However I can't for the life of me figure...

This rather advanced technique assumes your control has parametric programming (example shown in custom macro B). If you have this...

FANUC's Custom Macro Here is a custom macro that machines a bolt hole pattern. First, let's look at an example calling program O0008...

The best kept secret of CNC! There are few CNC people that even know what parametric programming is -- and fewer still that know how to...

Throughout this website, we talk a lot about parametric programming. The most popular version of parametric programming is FANUC's Custom...