THANKS

That did it! I moved the "*speed, *spindle, pgear, strcantext, e$" line back to where it was originally and added what you said. Here is the code for any future reference. but what does this mean? should I put it there too? I don't have any S0's when I post so is this line not being used?

yes, pot 50

Hey guys, I did a search and couldn't find anything. So here is my question. I have setup my machine (fanuc 16i) to probe using custom drill cycles. Problem is the post always comes out with "S0 M5" And the machine doesn't like that. So I was wanting to put an if/then statement in the post that says If speed = zero then M5 (without S0) Here is the section of the post that outputs the spindle speed ] I moved the S0 M5 to a line by itself thinking that I could isolate it then maybe apply a if/then statement, but I may be on the wrong track..... Thanks

Thanks, that may lead me to a solution, I have another machine def (from another machine) that I could use on the tombstone pallet. What if I had multiple machine groups. One for each pallet. Would that work?

We recently bought a 2 pallet horizontal mill. One pallet is a simple tombstone, the second has a 5 axis (B,C). My post is set up with axis limits for the B axis (because of cords, air lines, etc on the 5 axis pallet). This limits my use of the tombstone pallet. Is there some way to tell MC which pallet i'm working on and when to use the axis limits?

mine shows 13.0.3.31

How do I know if I have MU3? stupid question

The only problem with the formulas given by mastercam guru is that it doesn't take into account the flat on the tip of the tools.

Just noticed my depth calculator doesn't work. It keeps giving me positive values when they should be negative. I use this function ALL the time in X3. I need it to work.

Our machine is a kitamura My center HX430i with a tsudakoma rotary table. It came with the rotary table. We bought the machine used, 3 years old.

Greg, that is how my post looks

thanks everyone, Our 5th axis sounds alot like justin's. It is a kitamura with a rotary table mounted to the tombstone. That's the best way I know to describe it.

steve i don't know what the major dia of a ex: 1/4 - 20 helicoil should be. When we thread mill..... 5/16 - 24 hole and a 3/8 - 24 hole my major dia is .3125 and .375 I can use a 5/16 - 24 threadmill to do both. and they come out right every time. But when we threadmill.... 5/16 - 24 hole and 5/16 - 24 STI hole my major dia is .3125 and .370(MAX) I can't use the same tool because the STI hole cuts oversize. .370 is not the nominal major dia

steve, the files are identical if you mask on arc or not.