Nope. I have a printer port style HASP 4 also. along w/ 3 new usb type. and X runs just fine on that computer. (other than user issues..lol)

Well if that's the case then I would have to agree with what you said above above calculating the rotaries speed. Hope fully there is a way to asjust it so that you don't break alot of cutters. The only one I used like that rotated so fast it would have been impossible to do.

Cam, Does your control not handle INV feed rates? I believe that if you can turn on the INV feedrate in the post then it will maintain a constant feed based on the tools position from the center of rotation.. IE the closer it gets to centerline the faster the rotary has to spin.. I haven't figured out how to get mcam to put out a different feed for each z depth any other way..

No problem..

In the ops menu pick the geometry on the operation you want. Then right click on the chain you want to edit and select change at point. You can change feed rates anywhere along the profile. Don't forget to select the next point to change the feedrate back to waht is was.. Unless you want the rest of the chain to be just as slow..

If your machine can follow an origin point not on centerline as it rotates.. (for example our acramatic could but our okuma is too old and can't) Then you don't have to set z at centerline of rotation But if it can not follow the origin then you will either have to program from centerline or create a different offset at each angle for the operator to pick up

I noticed that section was labled: # Axis output formats - Linear There isn't another section labled # Axis output formats - Circular or arcs where the values are different? I don't know alot about the old post I've only been using since VER 8.1. So I'm just guessing here. If you want to email it to me at [email protected] I could try messing w/ it during my break later. and see If i can find the answer your issue. Yep I've Been here my whole boring life...

You can try searching your post for the following: code: fmt X 2 xabs #X position output fmt Y 2 yabs #Y position output fmt Z 2 zabs #Z position output This should make you post out put X, Y, And Z to only 4 decimals and should round it to match what was on the G03 line. It's my only idea... But it might work for you. Jeff

quote: Making it always default to the end of the active Toolpath Group would fix all the complaints I have with it. I like that Idea. Then if we need to add some ops up above just drag it up there.

Oh Yeah and in X its under: Settings: COnfiguration: Screen

What version RU running? If it's 9.1 then got to screen: configure then the screen page and unselect display viewport XYZ Axis. Jeff

I tried this also. It only seems to crash on files that contain toolpath. Running X SP1 also. Jeff

quote: 2 billion levels? Anyone remember these too??? No-one will ever use 128meg RAM!! How on earth am I going to fill a 40MEG HDD??? WOW!! a full MEG on a floppy?!? What will they think of next?!?!? Nothing against ya Bruce but to use 2 billion levels just spending 1 second per level never going to the same level twice would take 63.4 years. I don't plan on spending that much time on one file. Jeff

Check your stock view is set correctly. Are you using more than one machine group? If you are I think the stock view has to be the same if you are using an stl for the second machine group that was created by the first operation. Jeff

It does however look like I may have made a few more steps than necessary. I guess that's what rookies do. Well I tried. lol

I should have known someone would beat me to it while i was typing that all those instructions out. Way to go Paul.. LOL

I've tried this and it seems to work for me. That being said what you need to try is to change in your SCREEN-CONFIG-FILES set your defaults to the mmd, control and post on the network. Then under MACHTYPE-MACHDEF change it to select the same post on the server. **** While in this dialog click the save disk or it won't save your changes( gave me a headache figuring that out. I'm a little slow sometimes.) **** Also you have to click the edit control icon and add your network post to the list by clicking post processor button then add post. After you have done that you will be able to select it on the pull down menu to the right of the post proc button. **** Then click the save icon on this screen( are you begining to see how much of a pain this is) click the check mark to close the control def window. (you should still have the mach def window open behind it) make sure the post processor shows the network path above it and the correct post is selected. click the save icon again just to be safe. And now go do the same thing on all the other computers you want to use (quite the pain) I haven't tried this yet for more than one mach post. Just figured it out during lunch for ya. But this should work when you open the same file on the other computer all should be the same. I did try this on 2 different workstations and i was successful. of course you need to check your machine group properties and make sure they are right before you close the file on the first workstation. But as I have only tried this with one file. using one mach def. i can only hope it works for you. Jeff

Howdy, I think what you have to do is actually go into the operation parameters and just select right instead of left(or vise versa). Jeff