Where in mastercam are the settings that backplot uses for rapids and such for the cycle time estimate? thanks for the help Wally

I am trying to make a part on our Hardinge Quest with y-axis. I need to mill a profile using Y and Z with a 2/3 of the part on the Y+ side and the rest on the Y-. Can anybody tell me the correct settings for c-plane/t-plane, cview etc. for using the YZ plane when i post the part out? I have tried cview-cross-parallel, top view, left spindle, top turret. I dont get any Arc moves in my program. Just Y and Z movement. Or could it be something in the post? Hope that explains it. v8.1.1 Thanks

Thanks Mike. and thanks James. My coworkers dont really have faith that we can get good programs written from mastercam or any other cam for that matter. The people up above want me to prove it also. I think the best way to do it is to have a mastercam posted program look as close to the ones we write manually. A couple of guys even re-wrote a posted program i did without even trying it because they thought thier was only one way to do it.(I think its hard to teach an old dog new tricks) That is my purpose for using the M98P1, M98P2 etc. I sent in a sample post to our reseller to modify 6 weeks ago and have not heard anything since. I started looking around in the post looking for what does what. I still dont really know but i am getting there. I used James suggestions(thanks) and got the code i wanted, only not in the right place(close though) and i still cant get rid of the MO1's and M05's. I used the MPLFAN. We have ten hardinge lathes and they all use this format except for one. Mike, can i see the post your talking about? All the help ive been getting is great. Wally [email protected]

Hey Mike! yep it is a hardinge. You must be familiar with them huh?

Yes. the m98p1 calls a safe index sub program that tells the machine were to index and it also puts the machine in g97,g98 and cancels the tool offset among other things. We use that right before the tool change. ex. N100Z(T0101 DRILL) N2M13S1500 N3M98P1 N4T0101 N5X0Z.1 N6G99Z-.5F.004 N7M98P2 The m98p2 is pretty much the same thing except it cancels tool offset, has M01, g40 and tells machine to go to Z.5 (right of Z0) before it go to home position. Wally

Hello. Can anyone explain how i can modify my post to output what i want instead of what it does? Bassically in my post i need it to post an "M98P1" at the beginning of a toolchange and an "M98P2" at the end of an operation. No g30/g28 or xhome zhome, m01,t0 etc. I need it to do this at every operation. I hope i make sense. Also where do i look in a post to delete the mcodes and gcodes i dont want to use? Is it as simple as deleting them in the post file? thanks again. Wally

Thanks Sirs

We have all Hardinge lathes and we are hoping to get ahold of some posts for them. Either for the OT, 18i-t, or 10tf control.