post question

[John13]

Can somebody please help me? I am using the mpmaster post with HAAS mini mills, everything works great for the type of machining I do, however there is one thing I would like to change, and I have no clue how to edit posts. At the end of the post, it puts in G28 X0. Y0. which I know sends it to machine zero. What I want to do is get rid of the X0. Right now I go in and delete it manually but I would like for it never to be there in the first place. I have 2 vises on the table and it sends the left vise way over under the tool changer.

 

Thank you for your help.

[Rekd™]

First back up your post.

 

Second, make sure you backed up your post.

 

Third, open the post in your favorite text editor and look for this line in the PEOF section:

 

code:

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       pbld, n, "G28", "X0.", "Y0.", protretinc, e

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and change it to this:

 

code:

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       pbld, n, "G28", "Y0.", protretinc, e

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[John13]

Thanks rekd,

 

I did that, now next time I post, I post with the backed up file and if that works just stick with that.

 

 

Can I ask, where is a good place to get more info. on post mods. Besides asking here and bugging everyone, are there books or anything that I would be able to learn by myself, I think it'd be cool to learn to do some of this stuff.

 

 

Thanks again rekd

[Rekd™]

You're welcome.

 

There's a book and a CD available. The CD you can get from your reseller.

 

Let me know if that works ok for you.

[John13]

It worked, I didn't run anything but I posted a part that I've run before and checked it and it only had G28 Y0.

 

 

Thanks again,

[Rekd™]

Cool.

[Chad M]

Hi,

I would like to do the same thing as mentioned (remove X0.) from my post. How do I back up my post and open it in my favorite text editor.

[chris m]

What I do is I have a folder called V9 Posts Original and one called V9 Posts Modified. In the Original folder I have all of the posts from the CD in their original form, when I want to modify a post I copy it into the Modified folder and rename it something that is distinctive, like MPFAN_RA2. Copy both the .pst and .txt files and rename them the same thing.

 

To edit, open up CimcoEdit, NoteTab, whatever editor you have and just grab the .pst file from your directory.

 

C