I do want the g52 but its just posting the y axis and z axis flipped when it indexes.

After making this change and adjusting planes to something like colin suggested im still having the G52 shifts either be correct with no A axis output or the correct A axis output with the y and z axis flipped. thanks for your help, perhaps something is being lost in the translation on my end.

Okay cool, the template program is a smart idea. I beleive that was the direction i was headed with this. when you are programming like that is Z zero always the rotary centerline at all time? this is what I'm trying to avoid by creating planes at the top of stock of whatever face of the workpiece I'm working on. I was taught that wcs needs to be the same for all operation and then tool plane and construction needs to be the z orientaion of the part at that index, this is how inhouse solutions showed me. for example wcs: top tp: top cp: top and wcs: top tp: front cp: front should output a 90degree index. what im trying to do is get top of stock to be Z zero at those orientations. are you saying that Z zero should always be the centerline of rotation no matter what?

so you're saying that it just has to be 100% programmed off the centerline?

I don't know how to do what you are asking? my shop (big drum) has 3 legit mastercam lisences through inhouse solutions. I do have my WCS plane set to 1 plane in all operations which is the center of rotation of a tomb stone, the other operations are all on the part modeled in position on the tomb stone. I can certainly provide a zip to go. find it attached EMCAMTROUBLESHOOT.ZIP

Hello, I feel like I am missing something when posting through my new fanuc IKE processor, either in setting up my planes for it to pull data from or in setting up my control deff. I am working on a 4 axis vertical with A axis as the rotary. When I set a separate tool plane relative to top wcs it will give me a g52 ahead of moving into position to take that cut but if I'm working on a back facing plane the z and y are output backwards. I believe it has something to do with the fact that i can't change wcs bottom and back to have the x axis in the right direction relative to my axis of rotation. I can get it to give me the right g52 shifts if I change the wcs in the operation to a plane facing the correct direction but then it will omit the A axis move when posting. i hope that wasn't a mess and someone can help. thanks!