M54, M55, M56, M57 (General purpose IO)

please note that mentioned commands may fail during loading and/or simulation to make your macro code avoid these errors please take a look at the manual section run behavior during loading of job file and simulation docid\ p2jh9ffrvp0wcb5jcd9px digital outputs set output m54 p the p word must be between 1 and 10 where 1 is aux1 and 10 is aux10 m54 p1 (set aux1 out to 1) if the connected controller only has one aux output, 2 is mapped to flood and 3 to mist m54 p2 (set aux2 out to 1 or flood to 1 if the controller has 1 aux) clear output m55 p clear output the p word must be between 1 and 10 where 1 is aux1 and 10 is aux10 m55 p1 (set aux1 out to 0) if the connected controller only has one aux output, 2 is mapped to flood and 3 to mist m55 p2 (set aux2 out to 0 or fload to 0 if the controller has 1 aux) read outputs m57 p read output x , store the result in variable #5399 m57 p output p value aux1 aux n 1 to n machine on 51 drive enable 52 coolant1 (flood) 61 coolant2 (mist) 62 tool 63 tool direction 64 digital inputs read input m56 p p value input 51 56 home inputs x c 61 probe input 62 sync input 63 hwa input 64 hwb input 65 estop1 66 estop2 67 exterr 68 pause the result is stored in system parameters/variables docid\ oqhjs3llcfqksac cemc2 #5399 example erad aux input 3 m56 p3 (read aux in 3) if \[#5399 == 1] msg "aux3=on" else msg "aux3=off" endif example read home input of x axis m56 p51 if \[#5399 == 1] msg "home x=on" else msg "home x=off" endif read input + wait m56 p l q read digital input p and specify wait mode, the result is stored in variable #5399 p the input number l 0 do not wait l 1 wait for high l 2 wait for low q timeout (seconds) m56 p3 l2 q30 (read aux in 3) if \[#5399 == 1] errmsg "timeout while waiting for aux3 becoming low" else msg "aux3 is off" endif note that we use wait (l2) here, in the event of a timeout, the value of #5399 is 1 in order to make this code simulation and rendering proof we need to extend it like this if \[\[#5380 == 0] and \[#5397 == 0]] ;;check only if running job m56 p3 l2 q30 (read aux in 3) if \[#5399 == 1] errmsg “timeout while waiting for aux3 becoming low” else msg “aux3 is off” endif endif analogue inputs read analog input m56 e … read analog input e, result stored in #5399 m56 e3 msg "analog value is " #5399 pwm set pwm m54 e q set pwm output e to permille value q (0 <= y <= 1000) m54 e2 q500 (set pwm2 to 50% pwm) read pwm output m57 e read pwm output, result stored in #5399 m57 e3 if \[#5399 == 0] msg "pwm is off" else msg "pwm is on, value="#5399 endif optional iocard if a relay board is used such as rly8 , the io number p or e is specified like in the following examples value of 103 means card 1 port 3 value of 208 means card 2 port 8