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Operation Not Posting


Scott Lent
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I've run into a little problem I've not seen before. I have a program written with 13 operations. Everything looks good when I run it in verify, all operations run. 

The problem is when I post it, the last operation does not post. The operation posting is NOT toggled off, and the operation is checked with all the others.

I also do not receive any Partial NCI output file warning "Not all operations have been selected for posting. Post all?"

 

Any ideas what I should be looking for?

 

 

Thanks,

Scott

 

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I've ran into this problem with Lathe, and I think I've narrowed it down to having a Canned Rough being the very first op.

Sometimes it will post the rough, sometimes it won't.  It's not an NC name problem, and it's happened too often to be random. 

 

 

Edit, that was in X5, I haven't posted much lathe programs in X9 yet.

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A tell tale sign for this 'problem' is that Mastercam will try to post two programs (or more if you have more operations with different program names), you would have seen a second dialogue box after the first post processing was complete?

 

HTH Andy.

For this to happen you have to have your post dialog in your machine's Control Definition set to "Ask"

This is good practice for 2 reasons..

It makes it harder to accidentally overwrite an existing file when making edits

and

Its  a good warning if not all your toolpaths are posting under the same name

I've seen a 300 operation file with dozens of pocket roughing toolpaths  post one toolpath under

a different name because that toolpath was imported from a different file

Bad things happen when you try to finish a pocket that hasn't been roughed.

Setting the post dialog to ask is good insurance against this.

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For this to happen you have to have your post dialog in your machine's Control Definition set to "Ask"

This is good practice for 2 reasons..

It makes it harder to accidentally overwrite an existing file when making edits

and

Its  a good warning if not all your toolpaths are posting under the same name

I've seen a 300 operation file with dozens of pocket roughing toolpaths  post one toolpath under

a different name because that toolpath was imported from a different file

Bad things happen when you try to finish a pocket that hasn't been roughed.

Setting the post dialog to ask is good insurance against this.

Can you place an image of where this 'ASK' is please?

I can't see it on mine (probably not looking in the right place!!)

 

Ta.

 

Andy.

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