Sounds like someone hit your emergency stop. Do you have more than one? We have a few that have emergency stops near the carousel doors. Sounds like someone's messing with you.

The Griffo Bros. (thanks Jack, that's the one) editor is great and all, it's just that I can't get the programs to load without the micky mousing around. The Cimco editor is fine, they just have preditor as a preffered system. I don't think it's the software. I think this has to do with the Mazatrol itself and I was hoping some "expert" might have some insight as to why I'm struggling. The post that they use for their mazak's is basically the same as the standard mpfan post. We just load them through the EIA port. One thing of note is I'm trying to load .nc files and when we got through converting the successful on (via the micky mouse method) it wasn't a .nc file anymore. Oddly I don't know what file extension it was (using their computer and they don't show file extensions). Guess I'll have to do some digging in the morning. Again, thanks for any and all suggestions. I just think this method (they've been doing it for 5 years) is archaic.

I just started programming for a shop that is 90% Mazak. The problem I'm encountering is I cannot get the older mazak's to accept the program on download. Their work around is to send it to a newer machine, then send it back to some GB (gart brothers?) editor and then use that editor to convert the file to M32 - M2 (or is it M+?). This is insanity!! I've compared the files after conversion and they appear exaclty the same except for some weird symbol (like a bold letter "l") before each line. This is with using one of their in house mazak posts. Anyone know any secrets that would make my life a tad easier? We're using Mcam 9.0 Sp1 & Preditor Thanks, Buzz.

It was a different site/forum. (obvious statement here) I was the one who told on him. I was hoping he would get banned before someone responded and I didn't want to send him a warning (if Mcam was going to go after him) by responding to his post. So I just emailed the mods. I don't post much, but I read alot. If your selling pirated software, I'm going to narc you out.

Anyone have a post precessor for a Mazak "Vortex 815"? It's a 5 axis with a dual head rotary. It has global tool length offsets. I have a customer who needs it. Thanks, Buzz.