it says M4 when I specified M3

[Dustin S.]

Ive been playen with my post and been fairly succesful thanks to this forum *thanks guys* BUT today I went to post out and all my M3s are M4s i specified a CW direction on all my toolpaths but its posting M4's and changing the tool spindle direction has no affect so im thinken i did something in the post...?

 

thanks in advance

[htm01]

i've always done a neg (-) speed to get M4

[Dustin S.]

All my speeds are positive its posting an M4 i want an M3... hmmm

[Guest]

If your tool orientation is incorrect, you will get incorrect speed output. Check to make sure your tool is flipped the right way.

[Dustin S.]

looks right I opened a new file and drilled a hole its comen out m4 as well can someone tell me where in the post it reads it i may have messed something up there

[Mr. Wizzard]

In the post file, look for "#generate string for spindle"

Make sure you have the proper Mcodes in the column.

[Kannon]

Make sure you dont have a M4 in your sm03 line..

code:

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# Generate string for spindle 

sm04 M4 #Spindle reverse

sm05 M5 #Spindle off

sm03 M3 #Spindle forward

spindle #Target for string

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[Dustin S.]

got it now i changed:

fstrsel sm04 spdir2 spindle 3 -1

 

to

 

fstrsel sm03 spdir2 spindle 3 -1

 

thanks guys