Another post question

[Jim Whipple]

The other day I downloaded the Metacut utilities to try out as well as Predator's editor...

Now I get "(manual Entry)" at the end of my programs that look like:

 

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O0000

(PROGRAM NAME - SW25I BLANK)

(DATE=DD-MM-YY - 01-11-02 TIME=HH:MM - 14:21)

N100G20

N102G0G17G40G49G80G90

(1" FLAT ENDMILL TOOL - 7 DIA. OFF. - 7 LEN. - 7 DIA. - 1.)

N104T7M6

N106G0G90G54X-1.1Y.25S4500M3

N108G43H7Z.25

N110Z.1

N112G1Z-.02F20.

N114X7.1F15.

N116G0Z.25

N118M5

N120G91G28Z0.

N122G28X0.Y0.

(MANUAL ENTRY)

(MANUAL ENTRY)

N124M30

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I looked in my post (Mpfan) and found a section that looks like this:

# Tool Comment / Manual Entry Section

# ---- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

ptoolcomment #Comment for tool

tnote = t

toffnote = tloffno

tlngnote = tlngno

"(", pstrtool, *tnote, *toffnote, *tlngnote, *tldia, ")", e

 

pstrtool #Comment for tool

if strtool <> sblank,

[

strtool = ucase(strtool)

*strtool, " "

]

 

pcomment #Comment from manual entry (must call pcomment2 if booleans)

pcomment2

 

pcomment2 #Comment from manual entry

scomm = ucase (scomm)

if gcode = 1007, "(", scomm, ")"

else, "(", scomm, ")", e

 

What is it that I need to change to remove the Manual Entry thing?

 

 

Thanks for the help!

Jim

 

By the way I really like both editors

[Jim Whipple]

By the way

V8.1.1 Mill 1

Thanks

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

quote:

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The other day I downloaded the Metacut utilities to try out as well as Predator's editor...

Now I get "(Manual Entry)" at the end of my programs that look like:

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I don't know how downloading and trying out the MetaCut or Predator prodcuts would !change! your post output???

 

Have you (or someone) made changes to your MPFAN.PST ? Does these (MANUAL ENTRY) blocks

appear in EVERY program you post process?

[Jim Whipple]

quote:

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I don't know how downloading and trying out the MetaCut or Predator prodcuts would !change! your post output???

 

Have you (or someone) made changes to your MPFAN.PST ? Does these (MANUAL ENTRY) blocks

appear in EVERY program you post process?

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Thanks for your response Roger, I think that its coincidental about the editors but that's the ONLY change that's been made. (I'm the only user) I even reinstalled the Mpfan post in a different folder and looked at it and it had the same manual entry parts in there too....

And yes it posts them in all programs now

Most curious

Jim

[Jim Whipple]

The solution (I think) was that I removed the MetaCut editor as my default editor and I'm back to normal posted programs. I'm not sure how it was altering my post but it was...

Thanks

Jim

[Paul Elliott]

Jim,

MCU, when integrated with Mastercam, normally adds our tool definitions to the end of the posted code. This works in v9, but does not in 8, although the next release may fix this.

 

The option "Add MCU Tools to Operations Manager" is the checkbox responsible for this feature. The idea is to allow automatic definition of tools in posted code for use with MCU whenever you use the "Post" button in the Operations Manager, without any post modifications. It's invaluable in v9

 

Best regards,

[Jim Whipple]

quote:

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Jim,

MCU, when integrated with Mastercam, normally adds our tool definitions to the end of the posted code. This works in v9, but does not in 8, although the next release may fix this.

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Alright then....Now I understand

Thanks

Jim