What parameter X?

[[Ri...]]

Keeping my code simple to follow.

I have this, and it works fine to select a probe system:

//Begin Probe selection2 05.13.25
Bore_SystemX==bore_system
if getRecordHead("u_PartNumb")=="00-972938"
Bore_SystemX=bore_system2
endif
if getRecordHead("u_PartNumb")=="3031879-001"
Bore_SystemX=bore_system2
endif
if getRecordHead("u_PartNumb")=="00-971497"
Bore_SystemX=bore_system
endif

So, then I adapt all that to select a stylus tip:

DatumA_TipX==datum_a_tip
if getRecordHead("u_PartNumb")=="00-972938"
DatumA_TipX=datum_a_tip2
endif
if getRecordHead("u_PartNumb")=="3031879-001"
DatumA_TipX=datum_a_tip2
endif
if getRecordHead("u_PartNumb")=="00-971497"
DatumA_TipX=datum_a_tip
endif

The first set of code executes as planned.

the second set, the bastard cousin, prompts with an error.

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What parameter X? There is no parameter X and hasn't been a parameter X. Unless "X" is some generic character in the error prompt?

If I remove the character "X" from the second set of code, I get the same error.

Any assistance is appreciated.

[[Ri...]]

What I have learned.

For some reason PCM doesn't like the variable "datum_a_tip2", although it is clearly defined in the para file.

Snippet of para file:

PN = "00-972938"
bore_system="5x75"
bore_system2="6mm"
kidney_system="3x50"
datum_a_tip=3
datum_a_tip2=5_-X
num_bores=11

datum_a-tip2=5_-X

 

and just like that I see the light.

The stylus tip needs to be the index number, in this case '5", not what I named it.

[[No...]]

Maybe it was also the fact that the assigned value 5_-X had no quotes? PCM possibly tried to interpret that as a numerical calculation and therefore complained about the missing X.

[[Je...]]

make sure that when you are working with styli in PCM that you are using the proper format.  There are names, there are numbers, there are names + numbers, strings, ID codes and lists/arrays.

A few:

getProbe().confName
getProbe().probeName
getProbe().probeNameNumber
getProbe().ident
getProbe().probeIdent
getProbe().displayString
getProbe().stylusID