Reporting variables

St Taw

Having calibrated my four tool corexy I would like to report the offsets it has found.
I currently echo the variables by calling a macro

echo "Camera X",global.CameraX, " Y", global.CameraY, " Z",global.CameraZ
echo "T0Offset X",global.T0OffsetX," Y", global.T0OffsetY," Z",global.T0OffsetZ
echo "T1Offset X",global.T1OffsetX," Y", global.T1OffsetY," Z",global.T1OffsetZ
echo "T2Offset X",global.T2OffsetX," Y", global.T2OffsetY," Z",global.T2OffsetZ
echo "T3Offset X",global.T3OffsetX," Y", global.T3OffsetY," Z",global.T3OffsetZ

This results in the console
03/01/2024, 10:13:40 M98 P"0:/macros/Calibration/Report Offsets.g"
Camera X 6.577 Y 96.720 Z 0
T0Offset X 0 Y 0 Z 0
T1Offset X 0.060 Y 2.200 Z 0
T2Offset X 0.220 Y 3.620 Z 0
T3Offset X -0.043 Y 0.120 Z 0

However not all the lines are always reported. Sometimes T2 and T3 lines are missing. Why could this be?

What I would really like to do is report the variables with a Message dialog and require the user to Ok the message to continue. Like using a M291. However I have not found a way of reporting variables and putting them on multiple lines using M291.

Any suggestions?

dc42

@St-Taw I suggest you create a feature request on github, to allow M291 to create multi-line messages, perhaps by including \n or similar in the message string.

St Taw

@dc42
Thank you for reply.

I will make the suggestion. However before I do, I have been unable to get a single line message reporting variables. Have tried

M291 P "Camera X"^global.CameraX S2

The documentation does not describe anything other than P"message" with no example of variables.

Also I have an associated question.

I would like to find out what the current offsets I have applied via the G10 command are during the calibration.

As a test via the console I did
G10 P0 X-22
Then I move tool 0
G1 X40

Looking in the object model I find

Are the offets for all the tools visble in the object model specifically and without selecting the tool?

dc42

@St-Taw whenever a parameter to a GCode command is an expression, the whole parameter expression must be enclosed in { }. So try this:

M291 P{"Camera X"^global.CameraX} S2

St Taw

Yes that works. So I'll make the request for multi-line.

Any views on the object model enquiry?