Move Increment to Move Point Conversion Script?

Is anybody familiar with a script that will scour your program and replace all the Move Increments with Move Points in the alignment context in which the moves reside? My team really doesn't like Move increments, but I really like the convenience while programing. It would be neat if there were a macro that converts them all with a click of a button.

DAN_M over 3 years ago

"Find and Replace" function

Should work nicely
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Matthew D. Hoedeman over 3 years ago in reply to DAN_M

won't work, as he needs it to convert the XYZ values to correct absolute values
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DAN_M over 3 years ago

Matthew D. Hoedeman LAME
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Matthew D. Hoedeman over 3 years ago in reply to DAN_M

Not me, well, not really, I do use a cane, but I'm not lame...

HOWEVER, use of MOVE/INCREMENT isn't a good idea IMO. If you get an air-trigger (for whatever reason) during a move/increment, when you tell it to continue it will try to move the entire increment value from where it is sitting since there is no XYZ absolute target for it to move to. For example, you have a move/increment of 0,0,100 and it moves 75mm in Z and gets an air-trigger, when you tell it to continue it will try to move the entire 100mm FROM IT'S CURRENT LOCATION, thus giving (in this example), a 175mm move.
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DAN_M over 3 years ago

Matthew D. Hoedeman I have seen it do that before

I don't put move/incriments on the older machines and we never have any issues
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KIRBSTER269 over 3 years ago

I use increments only when let's say I'm using avoidance moves for a hole like in situations like so. but I try to avoid using them also.
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DAN_M over 3 years ago

I use increments only when let's say I'm using avoidance moves for a hole like in situations like so. but I try to avoid using them also.

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am writing a new program. am going to use only movepoints
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Matthew D. Hoedeman over 3 years ago in reply to KIRBSTER269

I thought that they were going to (or already HAD) added the ability to have a different value for each of those avoidance moves, so 5mm before and 25mm after?
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KIRBSTER269 over 3 years ago

am writing a new program. am going to use only movepoints

Well like what I'm showing in the pic, on a move point, lets say I'm writing it offline, then I have to account for the X,Y, and Z. With the increment I only have to worry about the X or Y or Z instead of all of them. I'm a clearance plane kinda of guy but when I have to pick up a few holes on a different workplane, then I shut clearance plane of and use avoidance moves, but once in a great while there are these little obstacles like I show above that creates little problems, I have suggested different settings for avoidance moves in the past to Hexagon about having a before avoidance and an after avoidance where you can control the distance of each one. Just like JEFMAN 's rotary tool issue, I'm sure they are working on it.
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DAN_M over 3 years ago

Well like what I'm showing in the pic, on a move point, lets say I'm writing it offline, then I have to account for the X,Y, and Z. With the increment I only have to worry about the X or Y or Z instead of all of them. I'm a clearance plane kinda of guy but when I have to pick up a few holes on a different workplane, then I shut clearance plane of and use avoidance moves, but once in a great while there are these little obstacles like I show above that creates little problems, I have suggested different settings for avoidance moves in the past to Hexagon about having a before avoidance and an after avoidance where you can control the distance of each one. Just like JEFMAN 's rotary tool issue, I'm sure they are working on it.

The ability to have different values for BEFORE vs AFTER would be awesome
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