CONNECTION_SCENARIO

GPP2 connections are series of motions and machine control operations generated by GPP2 in order to connect between toolpath points in a safe and predictable way. Connections take place in several points throughout the execution, such as at the beginning of procedures or between 5X segments. See the GPP2 Theory of Operation Manual for more details about GPP2 connections.

GPP2 connections follow a "scenario", which is a sequence of actions. GPP2 has four built-in scenarios, and the EX2 programmer can override them or add any number of additional scenarios. This is done with the CONNECTION_SCENARIO declaration statement.

CONNECTION_SCENARIO <scenario-name> <list-of-actions> ; 

Usually, the statement is very long, since it includes several actions and each action contains several arguments. Therefore, it is recommended to split the statement over multiple lines.

The <scenario-name> argument must be a string constant. It can be any string, and may include spaces. The names are not case-sensitive (so "scenario1" and "SCENARIO1" refer to the same scenario).

GPP2 uses four predefined default scenario names, namely "short", "long", "through-safe" and "tool-change". The use of any of these names in the statement replaces the default scenario of that name with the one described in the CONNECTION_SCENARIO statement. Any other name creates a new scenario.

CONNECTION_SCENARIO "long" <actions> ; // replaces built-in "long" scenario

CONNECTION_SCENARIO "very long" <actions> ; // creates new scenario