a post question

[Barry]

I am pretty green at altering posts. I have done pretty well though so far. The problem I am having, and I dont run in to this often, but I have found that if I have a program with only one tool in it, the post does not include an M6 at the beginning. If there is more than one tool it is fine. This becomes a huge problem if I need to trim something that i overlooked. My operator does not always read my mind in those situations...the nerve!!!

Barry

[Michael Reynolds]

Hi Barry, I'm not sure it's a post question.. If you do a tool path, in the tool parameters, one of the buttons is "change NCI", hit it and check the "force tool change" box.

Hope that helps!!

Mike R.

[Simtech]

You should look for the following in your post (assuming you are using a Fanuc style MPFAN post:

psof #Start of file for non-zero tool number

...

if ntools = one,

[

#skip single tool outputs, stagetool must be on

stagetool = m_one

!next_tool

]

...

if stagetool >= zero, pbld, n, *t, "M6", e

this means that if the number of tools (variable ntools) is equal to 1 then the stagetool variable will be set to -1.

then, the if stagetool >= zero, means that if the variable stagetool is greater than or equal to 0, then output the n, *t, "M6", e line (N10 T01 M6).

If you had only 1 tool, the variable stagetool was set to -1, which is less than 0 meaning the toolchange line wouldn't output.

You could do the following:

before:

if stagetool >= zero, pbld, n, *t, "M6", e

after:

pbld, n, *t, "M6", e

in other words, just remove the condition for outputting the toolchange.

Oh yeah, you should look at the stagetool settings to see if they are on or not and take a look also at the ptlchg section of your post.

Hope this helps!

Luc

[Barry]

Sorry I took so long to get back, i didnt have a chance to try it till today. Micheal, that didnt work for me. But Luc your solution did the trick..I thought about trying that before, but i guess i thought maybe it could be worded differnt to get same affect. I also wasnt sure if it was tied to staging in a way that it would screw that up. But in the end it works great. Once again thanks for the responses!!

Barry