There are two styles of passing arguments: Argument 1 and Argument 2.
For Argument 1, you can pass letters in sequaltial order. For example A1 B2 C3 D4 E5.
Note that not all controllers let you pass every letter of the alphabet,
but the key concept is that you can pass letters past A, B, and C and each one gets its own specific local variable number.
For Argument 2, you can only pass six letters as arguments A, B, C, and I, J, K.
But you can pass and abritrary number of of I, J, K arguments into the macro.
The macro can be coded to account for however many get passed in, which gives a lot of flexibility.
This is effectively a way you can pass array data into a macro as an argument.
| Argument 1 | Variable | Argument 2 | Variable | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | #1 | A | #1 | |
| B | #2 | B | #2 | |
| C | #3 | C | #3 | |
| D | #7 | I1 | #4 | |
| E | #8 | J1 | #5 | |
| F | #9 | K1 | #6 | |
| G | N/A | I2 | #7 | |
| H | #11 | J2 | #8 | |
| I | #4 | K2 | #9 | |
| J | #5 | I3 | #10 | |
| K | #6 | J3 | #11 | |
| L | N/A | K3 | #12 | |
| M | #13 | I4 | #13 | |
| N | N/A | J4 | #14 | |
| O | N/A | K4 | #15 | |
| P | N/A | I5 | #16 | |
| Q | #17 | J5 | #17 | |
| R | #18 | K5 | #18 | |
| S | #19 | I6 | #19 | |
| T | #20 | J6 | #20 | |
| U | #21 | K6 | #21 | |
| V | #22 | I7 | #22 | |
| W | #23 | J7 | #23 | |
| X | #24 | K7 | #24 | |
| Y | #25 | I8 | #25 | |
| Z | #26 | J8 | #26 | |
| K8 | #27 | |||
| I9 | #28 | |||
| J9 | #29 | |||
| K9 | #30 | |||
| I10 | #31 | |||
| J10 | #32 | |||
| K10 | #33 |
| ARGUMENT 1 EXAMPLE | ARGUMENT 2 EXAMPLE | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G65 P1234 A1 B2 C3 D4 E5 F6 | G65 P1234 A1 B2 C3 I4 I5 I6 | |||||||||
| A | = | #1 | = | 1 | A | = | #1 | = | 1 | |
| B | = | #2 | = | 2 | B | = | #2 | = | 2 | |
| C | = | #3 | = | 3 | C | = | #3 | = | 3 | |
| D | = | #7 | = | 4 | I | = | #4 | = | 4 | |
| E | = | #8 | = | 5 | I | = | #7 | = | 5 | |
| F | = | #9 | = | 6 | I | = | #10 | = | 6 | |
| G65 P1234 A1 D2 H3 K3 M5 V6 Z7 | G65 P1234 A1 I2 J3 K4 I5 J6 I7 | |||||||||
| A | = | #1 | = | 1 | A | = | #1 | = | 1 | |
| D | = | #7 | = | 2 | I | = | #4 | = | 2 | |
| H | = | #11 | = | 3 | J | = | #5 | = | 3 | |
| K | = | #6 | = | 4 | K | = | #6 | = | 4 | |
| M | = | #13 | = | 5 | I | = | #7 | = | 5 | |
| V | = | #22 | = | 6 | J | = | #8 | = | 6 | |
| Z | = | #26 | = | 7 | I | = | #10 | = | 7 | |
| G1234 A1 D2 H3 K3 M5 V6 Z7 | G1234 A1 I2 J3 K4 I5 J6 I7 | |||||||||
| A | = | #1 | = | 1 | A | = | #1 | = | 1 | |
| D | = | #7 | = | 2 | I | = | #4 | = | 2 | |
| H | = | #11 | = | 3 | J | = | #5 | = | 3 | |
| K | = | #6 | = | 4 | K | = | #6 | = | 4 | |
| M | = | #13 | = | 5 | I | = | #7 | = | 5 | |
| V | = | #22 | = | 6 | J | = | #8 | = | 6 | |
| Z | = | #26 | = | 7 | I | = | #10 | = | 7 |