Aspire Direct Output to UCCNC

[Greolt]

I see in Robert Spark's excellent macro guide that there is a "Loadfile" command but nothing I can see to "Closefile"

exec.Callbutton(512); may work but I will have wait till I get back home to try it out.

[Greolt]

I have tried everything that I can think of. In trial mode. I am away from the machine.

If the already loaded gcode has been run then the direct output does not work.

After the second gcode has failed to load, if I then press either "reset" or "cycle stop" the second gcode will suddenly appear.

So I made many amateurish attempts to include something into the macro that would do that, but failed miserably.

EDIT: In the post above I meant to write exec.Callbutton(125);

[Greolt]

After a lot of trial and error it looks like I found a workaround.

At the end of my code I replaced M30 (program end and rewind) with a macro containing the following

exec.Callbutton(130); //Cycle stop
exec.Callbutton(127); //Rewind file

This in theory does the same thing as M30 but somehow the Direct Output now works.

Still in demo mode though. Yet to see it work at the machine.

[Greolt]

Back at the machine and behaviour is exactly the same as in demo mode.

I am definitely no programmer but it seems to me that UCCNC is not clearing some sort of internal flag when executing an M30.

[cncdrive]

Loading a file does not depends on if the g-code file was rewind or not, the software should load the new file wit hthe exec.loadfile even if an M30 was not executed.

[Greolt]

As I said I am no programmer.

However the new gcode does not load if the previous gcode has been run and it ended with a G30.
Strangely it will appear if either Cycle Stop or Reset is pressed.

If the previous gcode ended with the macro containing the following then the new gcode loads.

exec.Callbutton(130); //Cycle stop
exec.Callbutton(127); //Rewind file

I tried leaving off both the G30 and my macro. The result was the same. The new gcode fails to load.

[ger21]

G30, or M30?

Try ending your code with M30.