Help with post

[powder]

Yesterday i posted a program with a few drilling canned cycles and what happened was, after the canned cycle it posted 2 lines on the same line as the canned cycle. I can't figure out what's going on. Please help!

 

Example: G98G83X-1.5Y0.R.1Z-1.25Q.1F10.X1.5Y0.G0G80Z2.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Matt

[Guest]

Welcome to the forum Matt

 

 

can you post the ppeck$ section of your post?

 

It looks like the is an e$ missing at the end of it.

[billystein]

put ,e to end line

[powder]

What would it be under? Canned cycles maybe?

 

I'm new to this whole messing with posts stuff.

[powder]

One more thing. The post worked fine on MasterCam 9 and we converted it over to X. It's kinda weird that it would start doing it now, isn't it?

[Guest]

mail powder

[summit fever]

To add:

 

The post worked fine on monday. Yesterday it seemed to just freak out all of a sudden.

 

Here is the ppeck:

 

ppeck # Canned Peck Drill Cycle

pdrillref

pn, *drillref, *sgdrill, *x, *y, *refht, *depth, *peck1, *frplunge, pcoolon

 

This post was/ is pretty hammered. It was brought in about 6 years ago, and has been used ever since. If I can find some time, I'd like to make a whole new post, as well as some others for a different machine. Does MCX have a post tutorial that is easy to understand?

 

Stretch

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

MCX Post Tutorial = Emastercam.Com search button.

 

MCX does come with the post parameter reference guide (in the documents folder). But it's not the easiest thing to understand.

 

The alternative to both of these is to contact your MC seller and ask for the big post guide (About a 20meg file with about 20 + PDFs in it). I got it recently and for what I was needing it was a big help.

[powder]

You got mail John.

[powder]

It didn't work. What did you change?

[Guest]

code:

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rpd_typ_v7$ : 0     #Use Version 7 style contour flags?rpd_typ_v7$ : 0     #Use Version 7 style contour flags?

---

I changed this line to zero

[Guest]

Here's something that doesn't make any sense to me at least

 

code:

---

pcoolon    # Coolant on "M" code output

if prv_coolant$ > 0, ex$

if coolant$ = 1, "/M8" # Flood

if coolant$ = 2, "M8" # Mist

!coolant$

---

I have no idea at all what the ex$ is doing there, try removing it so it reads

 

code:

---

pcoolon    # Coolant on "M" code output

if prv_coolant$ > 0,

if coolant$ = 1, "/M8" # Flood

if coolant$ = 2, "M8" # Mist

!coolant$

---

or if you DO want a space there change it to e$

[powder]

We ended up changing it to:

 

pcoolon # Coolant on "M" code output

#if prv_coolant$ > 0, ex$

if prv_coolant$ <> coolant$ & coolant$ > 0,

[

if coolant$ = 1, "/M8" # Flood

if coolant$ = 2, "M8" # Mist

]

!coolant$

[Guest]

And did that take care of your drill output issue?

[summit fever]

Sure did. Kinda weird that line was out of place...

[Guest]

no, not really, after I looked again, I realized there was output being done from the scoolant call and that's where it was getting lost.

[powder]

Thanks for all your help dude. You're the man.

[summit fever]

Gotcha. Thanks once again, John!