This forum has taught me a lot of what I know about Mastercam. The "in-depth Post Stuff" is explained in the MP Post Documentation. I was fortunate to work at CNC Software for a few years.

Oh I know that, we'd only be making the block itself. We'd send it out for the taper portion. Already contacted a company capable of doing this. We have a smaller group of similar parts and we use an eccentric DA (maybe it's an ER, don't remember) collet holder to hold a similar ID tool and it works great. Just can't get a Ø7/8" collet in except for ER40 and TG100 collets. The collet extensions I've found all have a very short shank and we'd be lucky to get 2 screws on the shank. We have 1 lathe with a C, the others are only X,Z. Thanks.

Why not go with Capto? You should be able to find what you want off the shelf and a C6 is a stronger connection than a CAT40.

I had this problem with Carmex HardCut thread mills. They run M04 and the operators kept hitting M03 and ruining the thread mill when they stopped to gage a thread. I put tape over the M03 button for a while till they got used to them

If it's the same as my 2015, when you hit the "position" button it cycles between machine, distance to go, operator, and the current work offset.

Not sure if there's an easier way to change which offset is displayed, but you could send the machine to the coordinates of G58, then zero the "operator" position. Now when the machine is moved, the coordinates in "operator" will be in relation to G58.

how do you guys know so much? Either way I am grateful for the nudge... I will most likely just use my newer MP Master than.. lol Thank you for the help

Gcode is correct. You've used a HST path, or one of the new finishing paths, and there is a Comment Output "String Select Table", that needs to be updated to work properly. All of the lines in the error file are just "standard report info", except one; the line with the "RUN TIME" error. This tells you the error occurred on line 1254 in the Post. You can use Alt + G to search for that line in Code Expert. I bet it is 'shstop' variable, or something like that. (String Select Table).

They are also useful if it is not possible or practical to center a large part on the C/L of a table The operator places tooling balls wherever it is convenient and gives the programmer the coordinates of the tooling balls in relationship to the part and the C/L of the table. The programmer uses the C/L of the tooling balls as program origins.

Use the adjust start of contour and adjust end of contour to extend your slot along with a perpendicular entry and exit to turn the comp on correctly.

You just need to match the tool numbers to the pocket numbers in the pocket table and set all the pockets to fixed,only take a couple of minutes you do not need to call DMG. Tool Table-Pocket Table-match the first two columns (tool # and pocket #) and then activate the fourth column (F) for each tool.

Just a thought....you can set your post, to give you in M128 mode(5x) the surface-normal vectors NX, NY, NZ, instead of your machine axes. Same code will work in a machine with a different kinematic also.

Might throw that out there next time also. They do it completely different than just about anyone.

So it turned out that my C-150 was just one special solution for one problem , but it would not have worked in general. It turned out that by tweaking two parameters in my Camaix post I was able to output the right angles without the C shift . Gracjan

I am not a Heidenhain guy but they must be a way to move the C axis machine zero point?