PowerMill commands for macros

When you use PowerMill interactively, every menu click and entry in a dialog sends a command to the program. These are the commands that you must enter in your macro file if you want to drive PowerMill from a macro.

This example shows you how to:

• Find the PowerMill commands to include in your macros.

• Place them in a text editor such as WordPad.

• Display the macro in the Explorer.

To create a macro:

1. Click View tab > Window panel > User Interface > Command Window to open the command window.

2. Click Home tab > Macro panel > Echo Commands to echo the issued commands in the command window.

   

3. To see the commands needed to calculate a block:

   1. Click Home tab > Setup panel > Block > Block.

   2. When the Block dialog opens, click Calculate, and then click Accept.

      The command window shows the commands issued:

      

      The commands are shown in square brackets; \r should be ignored. The commands you need are: FORM BLOCK, EDIT BLOCK RESET, and BLOCK ACCEPT.

4. Open WordPad, and enter the commands into it.

   Note: The commands aren't case-sensitive so FORM BLOCK is the same as Form Block which is the same as foRm bLock.

5. Save the file. The macro is added to the macro tree.