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It seems that altough Sintrosi did a post on the grinding issue some people still have problems to get the macros to work.
Please don´t make a "macro is lame"-discussion out of this thread. I´m a "classic" DE. I love my profession. Whenever I reached a new box, I tested, played around, made some droids. But I also used this macro to help me grind when I got the adv. droid frame unit. It saved me a lot of time, time that I had to make new droids and manage the flora ressources in our guild (while my mates brought me tons of steel and fiberplast ;-).

There are different ways to grind with macros. The fastest way I´ve seen is the method of starting one crafting tool with the right schematic, give some time to double-click the ressources, end the crafting and start the next tool.
This can be done in different ways: either you make a short macro for every tool or you just put it all into one big macro (with 2 additional “helper” macros).
I chose the latter.
I cut and paste (with a little correction) from my posting in the original “holo-DE”-thread:

Ok, here´s what I´m doing to grind with advanced droid frame units:

First of all store your crafting station droid and go to options and remove the check on "Confirm crafting actions" or whatever its called.

After that, use trial&error to find out the draft schematics number for the advanced droid frame unit by opening your crafting tool and typing /selectDraftSchematic ## (## stands for a number here) until you got the right number. Don´t forget to use the up key or whatever works for you to repeat the last command, so you only have to change the number and not type in the whole command again.

Then put 5 Weapon/Droid/General Crafting Tools in the first slots in the lower quickbar (slots are numbered 0-11 in top row, 12-23 in the lower row, so I put them in slots 12-16).

I have three macros:

The first macro sits in slot 17. Its only function is to start the crafting macro.

/ui action toolbarSlot18;

>>>> You have to use the exact syntax,no blank between toolbarSlot and the Slotnumber.

The second macro is the crafting macro and sits in slot18:


/ui action toolbarSlot12;
/selectDraftSchematic 114; -----note the blank before the number; use your own number
/pause 5;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 2;
/ui action toolbarSlot13;
/selectDraftSchematic 114;
/pause 5;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 2;
/ui action toolbarSlot14;
/selectDraftSchematic 114;
/pause 5;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 2;
/ui action toolbarSlot15;
/selectDraftSchematic 114;
/pause 5;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 2;
/ui action toolbarSlot16;
/selectDraftSchematic 114;
/pause 5;
/nextCraftingStage;
/nextCraftingStage;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/createPrototype practice no item;
/pause 2;
/ui action toolbarSlot17; ----- this calls the starting macro, which then calls the whole crafting macro again; this is imho necessary, because a macro can´t call itself

So now all you have to do is click on the startmacro and doubleclick the ressources into the schematics every few seconds. If you experience lag or its too fast for you simply increase the pauses.
This timing works perfect for me but may not do it for you. Just try it.

The last macro is simply to stop the whole thing again:

/dump

Thats all you need.

Of course you could go the usual way and make 6 or so macros as stated in the various macro threads, but this worked pretty well for me.

Last addition:
Osarp Adoo stated on another macro thread, that there´s a rumour on the artisan forums that while using the “practice no item” handle, you can´t open a new crafting tool when the first one is still crafting. I don´t know if this is already on Test Center, but if it goes life, you have to remove the “practice no item” , stop the macro, when your inventory´s full, remove the items from the tools output hopper and start all over again.

bump

I have been haveing all sorts of trouble on macros up till now. I used this but without the little start macro and dump.. Only thing i changed is i increased it to 12 toolkits and i have to manually click to start it each time, but i dont worry about it locking up on me either..