That worked great! you are the king of macro! thanks Mike

I have another question, dont know if this is the rite spot but here goes, wrote a simple macro to keep track of a G53 Z position for a tail stock program on a cnc lathe, the problem is when it stores the number in a variable it goes way down in the decimal place like 1.2345678 and i want it to go to the 4th place 1.2345 like it shows on program check screen machine scale(G53). I tried to use the round and fix etc. but it would go to integer + or- I want it to be exact. this is what I'm using #501=#5022 and its a fanuc 21i TC thanks

Thank's Mike

Thank you, I thought they had to be somewhere, I'm not sure if this machine shows the local variables or not, seems like they start with the common 100's, I'll take a look on Monday. what do you know about the soft control screen, you know to turn things on/off, this one is Blank, it shows about 5 rows of the on/off but nothing in front of them? I would like to shut the chuck foot pedal off some times as I run big parts with a face driver and don't want to accidentally drop a part when it's sitting with part still in machine. keep relays or maybe the ladder? thank's again, I have learned a lot from you over the years.

Hello, when using local variables are they stored somewhere? or does the macro just use them rite from the main call arguments? thanks