M04 - general turn - M03 - Drill.................

[out2thow]

I have my lathes using left hand tools for generla turning and boring (Insert up) which requires me to use M04 for turning. For all my drilling and threading operations, i use M03.

 

Now how and where can i make changes in mastercam to do this. I have looked in tool definitions, and job set-up. I can't modify the post to do this because not every tool will be M04 (threading)

 

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

I'm running 9.0 SP1 full suite.

[Rick Damiani]

You set the spindle direction in the tool definition. In the operations manager, click on the tool you want to fix and then click on the 'Setup tool' button on the right side of the tool definition dialog. Spindle direction is at the bottom of the tool setup dialog.

[out2thow]

AHHH Thanks!

 

I knew it would be in there somewhere, just overlooked it. Thanks again!