Good morning! I have a 2022 4-axis Haas post, but I just got a new computer that has MasterCam 2023. I can't seem to use the migration wizard to convert the 2022 post to 2023. I've done this successfully in the past but I think the issue may be that I don't have a 'Shared MasterCam 2022' folder in my PC's directory. I've tried copying and pasting a full 'Shared MasterCam 2022' folder and subfolders from another PC and I still can't convert my post. Unfortunately I don't have access to a 2023 copy of the post. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

I contacted our MasterCam reseller yesterday about purchasing a post our VF2 with a trunnion Yes the post we have outputs both simultaneous and 3+2 motion as a function of DWO, I'm trying to figure out if I need to change a misc int/real value to trigger TCPC or if I need to just buy a machine specific post

I have MasterCams Generic 5-axis post for haas mills and I'm pretty inexperienced with post processors. Currently the post processor outputs all of our code to be compatible with DWO (G254). Is there something in the misc integers/misc real I don't know about to post utilizing TCPC for our simultaneous operations? Or something in the post processor I need to change? Or do I just need to buy a more advanced post? Thanks in advance for any help/advice!

Good afternoon, I have a Haas VF2 with a TRT160 on the table and have a program that moves the A-axis to 90 degrees and then performs a 4-axis Rotary toolpath with the B-axis rotating continuously as the Z-axis moves up and down. My issue is that the MasterCam post I have will only rotate the B-axis 9,999.0 degrees and then it moves the tool up and rewinds to 0 degrees in increments of 1 degree at a time. The entire program rotates about 63,000 degrees. I'd like to either increase the limit of rotation above 9,999.0 degrees, and I can see where to do this in the post: pri_limlo$ : -9999 pri_limhi$ : 9999 However, the post file is encrypted and it will not let me use it if I make edits myself. I've tried changing post parameters through MasterCams GUI but this parameter does not appear, or at least I can't find it. Thanks

Good morning, I'm not sure if I'm even allowed to ask this. I run an Advanced Manufacturing shop at a vocational highschool and we've basically been stuck in the mud for the last few months and I'm not sure what else to do. My students are learning remotely 75% of the time, and have access to the Home Learning Edition of Mastercam 2021, which does not produce G-code. Due to a series of miscommunications, my physical shop at the school has MasterCam 2020 (non-HLE, so it can produce g-code), and I have been continually told, for months now, that we would have 2021 installed on the shop computers 'by the end of the week.' I am still in the building even when I am teaching remotely so I have been able to program and machine some students parts, and even get to livestream the machining of parts that my students have designed and programmed in shop, including simple 4th axis parts. My problem is, I have a dozen high school seniors who have been working on their own MasterCam projects in MasterCam 2021 from home for a few months, and are in school this week but we cannot produce any g-code because they have programs made in 2021 and we only have 2020 on site. Is there any way to create code, or save entire mastercam files as an older version in this instance? Thanks, Al

Thanks for your response! You gave me an idea.. the post maxes the feed output at F1000. for inverse time and almost every line has an F1000. The programmed feed rate is around 15 IPM which is converted to something above 1000 in inverse time feed for 99% of the moves already. I figured if the feed rate doesn't change over a small distance, thus not outputting a feed, it is probable that there are not actually two identical feed rates on consecutive lines based on the shape of the part, but they are close enough to be the same due to rounding. So I increased the programmed feed from 15 IPM to 100 IPM to scale the feeds (still capping inverse time feeds at 1000). This fixed my problem Thanks a lot!

I noticed the lines that did not have feed rates were on lines that moved with very slight changes in A-values and thought MasterCam might have an issue processing the feed because it is moving between two points that are very close to eachother. I increased the cut tolerance to 0.010 in the cut pattern parameters and this seems to have fixed the issue.. but if anyone has any ideas as to how I can remedy this without having to always increase the cut tolerance, that would be much appreciated.

I have created a program that finishes with a 4-axis rotary tool path. I am using a Haas VF2 with the Generic 4-axis haas post from MasterCam. It's about 80K lines of code that get output using G93 Inverse time feed. Feed is non-modal when using G93 so there needs to be an F-value on every single line while G93 is active. About 1 out of every 20 lines does not have an F value and I can't figure out why.. any thoughts as to how I can fix this? Thanks, Al