Well, It may have not helped rick, but it certainly helped me... We just got all our licenses converted to nethasp, and I wasn't picking up a solids license when starting mill9. Thank You.

Oh, and tool width can be same as groove width but not more.

You need to set roughing stock to zero, change "rough step" to "number of steps" and set it to 1, also disable finishing pass. This works every time.

BTW i agree with you, eeyore. Conventional cutting does wonders SOMETIMES.

I have been asked to change my programming methods from one of the machinist on the floor(imagine that) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ssssso What ? He is from the low race creature ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Actually, while this machinist makes a good point, a lot of them don't. A lot of them ask for things that don't make sense. I had guys ask me to stop putting comments in the program "cause it looks more uniform that way". I think he just didn't want anybody else to be able to run jobs he set-up, but who am i to question him.

OK, to force output of feedrate you have to do following go to "Motion NC Output" of postproc. In paragraphs plinout and pcirout change pfr to pffr. it should look like this plinout #Output to NC, linear movement - feed pcan1, pbld, n, psgplane, sgfeed, pexct, psgcode, psccomp, pxout, pyout, pzout, pcout, pffr, pscool, strcantext, e pcirout #Output to NC, circular interpolation pcan1, pbld, n, psgplane, sgfeed, pexct, psgcode, psccomp, pxout, pyout, pzout, pcout, parc, pffr, pscool, strcantext, e This will output feedrate on every line.

Whoops, I'm sorry, I forgot, To get the spaces you have to do this sg00 "G94 G01 F5000" #Rapid

There are many guys on here that know way more about this than i do. Hopefully one of them will chime in soon.

By putting * in front of a code you force PP to output it every time it comes across it. For example pbld, n, *sgcode, pfxout, pfyout, pfzout, e sgcode will be posted every time post comes across it.

Thanks Jim. Overlap and stepdown are not zero, and no you're not being a wise guy. Sometimes something as simple as that works, but unfortunately not this time. I tried updating the V9 post a few more times, just to make sure it wasn't a freak occurence. Right now I'm making a few more tweaks to the V9 post; When I'm done I'll update it and send it to Mastercam guys. Maybe I get lucky and the issue dissappears on its own.

BUMP Anyone? Help please? Is this something that our distributor should / could help me with?

Done all that, still no change...

I searched for it, and did everything as described in one of the posts, but it didn't do anything. I copied the whole section with updated parameter numbers, and double checked mapping. This is what I'm using fprmtbl 1 5 #Rough cut parameters 13343 depthcc #Was 10200 10407 clearcc #Was 10201 10202 xstckcc 10203 zstckcc 10214 directcc fprmtbl 2 4 #Finish cut parameters 13341 ncutscc #Was 10100 10101 depthcc 10102 xstckcc 10103 zstckcc fprmtbl 3 5 #Groove cut parameters 13358 stepcc #Was 10301 13138 directcc #Was 10306 13352 dopeckcc #Was 10312 10316 depthcc 13364 clearcc #Was 10320 fprmtbl 104 4 #Thread cut parameters 10811 xmaj_thd #Was 10411 10813 zstrt_thd #Was 10413 10814 zend_thd #Was 10414 10819 face_thd #Was 10419

Thank You.

I finally got my post tweaked to perfection, with a lot of help from you guys, and I ran it thru post updater thingy. The problem I'm having now is that it posts depth of cut and retraction in a canned cycle with values of zero, no matter whats set in the actual operation. Here's an example: ( ROUGH OD ) G0 X4.2266 Z.0616 X4.02 G71 U0. R0. G71 P120 Q130 U.02 W.01 F.01 N120 G0 X2.9703 S200 G1 X3.1717 Z-.0392 It should be: G71 U.13 R.01 Anybody else ran into this problem?

I have a pile of lathe exercize parts form when i was in apprenticeship. Some are for conventional machining and some are for cnc. CNC ones also have a dimension or two missing, which forces the apprentice to trig them out.Only issue though - prints are in german. You should be able to use them since all important stuff is pretty much universal. If that sounds like something you want, let me know. You'll have to give me a day or so, since i have to scan them all in.

If you don't have solid, you can just draw a helix with right diameter, pitch, start and depth, then just mill it as a contour. I used this method when i had to threadmill tapered threads.

Excellent, Thank you john. For some reason i kept tying nt to n instead to nt I tried nt=n+1 but that obviously didn't work. nt=nt+1 works perfect. Thanks again to all of you, guys.

Roger, I don't need them to match tool number. I had that issue before with a mill post, and I was able to do that, with your help. I need the N's at the tool change to start at N1 for the first tool in program, and increase by one for every subsequent tool. The problem I'm having is that N's that are a part of a canned cycle screw up the sequence of N's at the tool change. Basically I need to have a different variable (I'm using "nt") with its own start and increment. I just can't figure out how to make "nt" increase every time it repeats. I'm going to try connorMac's suggestion, and i'll let you know if it worked.

This is a Lathe Post V9.1, I would like to post sequence numbers at the tool change that go from 1 up. i.e N1 G0 T0101 G54 G0 X5.Z0 ... ... N2 G0 T0202 etc. But i still want my canned cycles to come out as before, namely with line numbers in 100's ... G71 U.15 R.01 G71 P100 Q102 .... Basically i'm trying to establish 2 sepparate sequences for canned cycle lines and programm sequences. So far i was able to get it to this point % O0000 G20 (447798-1_OP20 - 07-02-07 - 07:14 ) (TOOL - 1 OFFSET - 1) (OD ROUGH RIGHT - 80 DEG. INSERT - CNMG-432) N1 G0 T0101 G50 S3600 G96 S200 M03 G0 G54 X5.3202 Z.1276 M8 G72 W.1 R0. G72 P100 Q102 U.02 W.01 F.01 N100 G0 Z0. S200 G1 X1.5454 X1.2047 N102 Z.1276 G0 X6.5618 M9 G28 U0. W0. M05 T0100 M01 (TOOL - 2 OFFSET - 2) (ID ROUGH MIN. .75 DIA. - 75 DEG. INSERT - 5-16 IC TRIANGLE) N5 G0 T0202 G97 S200 M03 G0 G54 X1.2047 Z.2276 M8 G71 U.1 R0. G71 P104 Q106 U-.02 W.01 F.01 M9 G28 U0. W0. M05 T0200 M01 (TOOL - 3 OFFSET - 3) (LATHE TOOL 79 INSERT - NONE) N9 G0 T0303 G50 S3600 G96 S200 M03 The issue is that it still keeps all the n's in the same sequence, it just subtracts 99 from lines with tool change. I did this so: nt=n-99 toolno = t * 100 + tloffno pbld, *nt, e pbld, *sgcode, *toolno, e I was thinking about setting a lookup table, as one of you guys suggested in a thread where somebody was trying to make his tool# match a sequence number, while adding a value to it if it shows up more than once, but i don't think i need that since i'm just trying create another independent sequence. It's not a life or death issue, as you all already realized, but it would sure make things easier. Any help would be appreciated guys.

If you have a spindle that spins fast enough best option would be to grind the plate. 6" Dished wheel at 10-15K rpm .001 at a time.

Do you have to give it a certain IP adress, or do you let it assign one itself? Does it have to be same as adress on the machine? I like the caps server cause it gives me control over what program is loaded. Right now we have a problem where every operator and set-up guy has his own programs and they won't run anything else.

Jerosu what software are you using to communicate?

Sorry I had to resurect this thread... We are about to hook up our Lathes to my computer and we are getting to a point where we'll have about a 1000 feet of cable btw. comp. and machine. We have 20 Mori Seiki Lathes 18 of them have Ethernet ports. I would like to go wireless but I have no idea what software will support ethernet, and how to turn a wireless signal into a wired one. I tried using a Linksys "Game adapter" and Mori's CAPS server software but i could never get the machine to connect. Any Input would be much appreciated. Thank You

Lets see if anyone can beat this: RS232 - 600 feet of cable. Boom!