Looping help

[DB not cooper]

I'm having difficulty searching and was wondering if someone could help me. I want to create a loop that ask the operator if they want to check another part. (checking multiple parts but not a defined amount) but can't seem to find any threads that meet what i'm looking for.

Kinda along these lines

"do you want to check another?"

"yes" would run the loop and back to the beginning,

"no" would end the loop and print off the report with all the parts ran.

UPDATE:

Here's what I came up with I also added a comment and dimension so it will print every part with an entered part number to one single report. good for CAP studies where we number each part.

STARTUP =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:USE_PART_SETUP,LIST=YES
ALIGNMENT/END
MODE/MANUAL
PREHIT/0.1
RETRACT/0.1
MOVESPEED/ 100
MANRETRACT/0.1181
FORMAT/TEXT,OPTIONS, ,HEADINGS,SYMBOLS, ;NOM,TOL,MEAS,DEV,OUTTOL, ,
LOADPROBE/2X50MM
TIP/T1A0B0, SHANKIJK=0, 0, 1, ANGLE=0
PLN1 =FEAT/PLANE,CARTESIAN,TRIANGLE
THEO/<12.3841,10.8092,-24.3772>,<0.0000203,-0.0001256,1>
ACTL/<12.7461,11.4439,-24.4182>,<-0.0010152,-0.0000618,0.9999995>
MEAS/PLANE,3
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,<12.4297,11.351,-24.3771>,<0.0000203,-0.0001256,1>,<12.7412,11.5325,-24.4182>,USE THEO=YES
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,<11.9393,10.6151,-24.3772>,<0.0000203,-0.0001256,1>,<12.6315,11.3995,-24.4183>,USE THEO=YES
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,<12.7834,10.4614,-24.3772>,<0.0000203,-0.0001256,1>,<12.8656,11.3999,-24.4181>,USE THEO=YES
ENDMEAS/
CIR1 =FEAT/CIRCLE,CARTESIAN,IN,LEAST_SQR
THEO/<12.4197,10.7849,-24.4932>,<0,0,1>,0.7599
ACTL/<12.69,10.9125,-24.4995>,<0,0,1>,0.7603
MEAS/CIRCLE,3,ZPLUS
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,<12.4194,11.1648,-24.4942>,<0.0009949,-0.9999995,0>,<12.6863,11.2927,-24.5007>,USE THEO=YES
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,<12.7961,10.7326,-24.4933>,<-0.9904903,0.1375824,0>,<12.3554,10.7321,-24.4989>,USE THEO=YES
HIT/BASIC,NORMAL,<12.0434,10.7322,-24.4922>,<0.9903483,0.1386009,0>,<13.0247,10.7322,-24.4988>,USE THEO=YES
ENDMEAS/
A1 =ALIGNMENT/START,RECALL:STARTUP,LIST=YES
ALIGNMENT/LEVEL,ZPLUS,PLN1
ALIGNMENT/TRANS,ZAXIS,PLN1
ALIGNMENT/TRANS,XAXIS,CIR1
ALIGNMENT/TRANS,YAXIS,CIR1
ALIGNMENT/END
MODE/DCC
MOVE/CLEARPLANE
CLEARP/ZPLUS,0.1,ZPLUS,0,ON
MOVE/CLEARPLANE
L1 =LABEL/…………………………………………………………….. (this line starts the loop)
C2 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=NO,
Part number?...………………………………………………………. (here I ask what the number on the part is and ASSIGN it to a variable)
ASSIGN/V1=C2.INPUT
PLN2 =FEAT/CONTACT/PLANE/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN,NONE
THEO/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>
ACTL/<0,0.0001,-0.0001>,<0.0002898,-0.0004154,0.9999999>
TARG/<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>
ANGLE VEC=<0.0000001,1,0>,RADIAL
SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=NO
MOVE/CLEARPLANE
CIR2 =FEAT/CONTACT/CIRCLE/DEFAULT,CARTESIAN,IN,LEAST_SQR
THEO/<0,0,-0.12>,<0,0,1>,0.76
ACTL/<-0.0001,0.0001,-0.12>,<0,0,1>,0.7604
TARG/<0,0,-0.12>,<0,0,1>
START ANG=0,END ANG=360
ANGLE VEC=<0.0000001,1,0>
DIRECTION=CCW
SHOW FEATURE PARAMETERS=NO
SHOW CONTACT PARAMETERS=NO
COMMENT/REPT,

COMMENT/REPT,
"Part #"+V1...……………………………………………………. (here it prints what's in the quotes and adds the entered number, I had to go with NO spaces around the + sign to make it work)
DIM BORE= LOCATION OF CIRCLE CIR2 UNITS=IN ,$
GRAPH=OFF TEXT=OFF MULT=10.00 OUTPUT=BOTH HALF ANGLE=NO
AX NOMINAL +TOL -TOL MEAS DEV OUTTOL
D 0.7600 0.0020 0.0020 0.7604 0.0004 0.0000 -----#---
END OF DIMENSION BORE
MOVE/CLEARPLANE
C1 =COMMENT/YESNO,NO,FULL SCREEN=NO,AUTO-CONTINUE=NO,
Run another part?
IF_GOTO/C1.INPUT=="YES",GOTO = L1...………………………………….. (this sends it back to the L1 label and starts the loop over, or ends the program with a "no" selection)
MOVE/CLEARPOINT

it works good. I start with manual hits to locate and set the part's position, then use DCC hits to measure the same features over and over, to be complete I should use another alignment after the loop starts but this is just a basic loop program I did to learn how to make it work. as long as you have a fixture that holds the part steady in the same place this setup could work well. Be careful to start over from the beginning for each session or it will keep adding to the list on the printout instead of starting over. or if you get stopped mid stream and want to complete it later, just leave it open and running at a comment and come back later.

[JEFMAN]

You could do it with a if/goto, with a label at the start, or a DO/UNTIL (C1.INPUT="NO") or a WHILE/C1.INPUT=="YES".

[DB not cooper]

I think I see, start with the comment = yes and put the comment asking to do another part input at the bottom of the loop?

[dph51]

Check out “Branching by using Flow control” in the help file.

Something like ............

startup
loadprobe
tip/
mode/dcc

[COLOR=#d35400]PROG_START = LABEL/[/COLOR]

main program code

[COLOR=#e74c3c]C2 = COMMENT/YESNO,NO,Full Screen=NO,MEASURE ANOTHER PART?

IF/C2.INPUT==“YES”
GOTO/PROG_START
END_IF[/COLOR]

[AndersI]

The easiest way is to turn on the Wizards toolbar, and click the MultiExecute button (6:th from left, big exclamation mark). Handles both defined and undefinied number of loops, without any changes needing to be done to the part program.

[DB not cooper]

not sure if I have that, we have 2 different versions so we try to write programs to work on the oldest so they will work on both. oldest is 2012

[AndersI]

The Wizards toolbar is older than that...

[ajlee7]

I've always done it like this:

Loop/start

part code here

c1=comment/yesno
"would you like to measure another part?"
if_goto/c1.input=="no",goto=L1
L1=label/

I know that's not a perfect example but basically you just set up a loop that will run 1,000 times unless the operator hits "no" and breaks it.

[KIRBSTER269]

Easiest way I have always done it, You know how many parts you are going to start with, so you ask "How Many Parts Do You Want To Run? "
Put in a Comment at the begining so it stops in between each part so it pauses so you can put the next part on "Place Next Part On Fixture" this would be irrevelant on the first part.
Instead of putting a number in the LOOP command just put C1.INPUT (or whatever your Input is called) that way whatever number you answer the question with it would just run that many times.

[COLOR=#C0392B]C1[/COLOR] =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=NO,
How Many Parts Do You Want To Run?
V1 =LOOP/START,ID=YES,NUMBER=[COLOR=#E74C3C]C1.INPUT[/COLOR],START=1,SKIP=,
OFFSET:XAXIS=0,YAXIS=0,ZAXIS=0,ANGLE=0

COMMENT/OPER,NO,FULL SCREEN=NO,AUTO-CONTINUE=NO,
Place Next Part On Fixture


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Program



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LOOP/END

[DB not cooper]

yes I have one like that, however sometimes we do not know if we will get thru all the parts before the end of the shift so being able to stop at will works best. Thank you for the help.