Corey, Will you be probing on the horizontals? Posts wont be a problem, but let me now about the probing cycles before hand so I have right stuff in probe cycles. 32,000 rpm? Sounds great. Jimmy

Alot of posts uses buffer files to store info. Look at original post(you did backup?) and see if in your changes you omitted anything writing to a buffer. ie: test1 = wbuf(1,1) the read buffer in postblock looks like test1 = rbuf(1,1) If you have post help cd look up buffer files and it will help out.(if not call dealer and get one they are very inexpensive) This should give you an idea of what your looking for, I suggest having bottle of tylenol handy also. It helps. Jimmy

you can suppress current move by testing the angle change btween moves using mov_ang variable. If it is zero(tangent) don't output current move I will try to find some code and post tomorrow Jimmy [ 06-11-2003, 11:57 PM: Message edited by: Jimmy Wakeford, from Barefoot CNC ]

sometimes we use pocket(must have rectangle round everything) turn rough off keep tool down on and dont finish outer boundry. This allows tool to stay down and navigate round parts. Jimmy

bawoody, well, welcome to the forum. just wipe your shoe off and come on in. (Alot of guys step in the same pile first time in.) These guys are testy about posts. Send my an email and I will hook you up with a milltronics post. Jimmy

4d engineering makes a chook "unfold" that will do this. Jimmy

Are you refering to the way that say a kerner trecker reads them? Tied tool a tool dia? If so you can set it up in the post to output an incremental ascii character added to the actual progno with a little string manipultion. ie: let_cnt = let_cnt + 1 s_let = no2asc(let_cnt) s_tldia = no2str(tldia) s_sub_namec = s_sub_cl + s_tldia + s_let + s_end n,*s_sub_namec,e Initialize let_cnt to ascii # letter cap A Bubba

FireDragon Did you ever figure out why the incorrect retract motion? Five ax forum for gen5x or all 5ax posts? Bubba

BLonde123, Read the other 5axis post threads from the last couple of days. They are pretty funny. If you send me the post I'll take a look or use the other one. Forum, Blonde is a legal user/educator. He is trying to use The camaix 5ax post generator. Ideas? Bubba

Blonde123, Post should have switch for feed degree or inverse time. Bubba

Keith, Its in the pst file. Are your other machines thermwoods? If so you should be able to take that post and change it for A ax output. Thanks Bubba

Keith, The divide by zero error sounds like old code. The angle is being derived from something like: " c = atan(vtoolx/vtooly)" in which if vtooly is zero then you get the error. You can backplot the toolpath to visibly check for this condition. The code needs to be changed to somethng like: " c = atan2(vtoolx,vtooly)" depending upon intial c axis stae and whether a or b is desired. Thanks Bubba

Hey Guys, Let's keep the redneck jokes to a minimum as to not offend anybody down here. Just because down here: The monitor is up on blocks. Outgoing faxes have tobacco stains on them. The six front keys have rotted out. The extra RAM ports have truck parts stored in them. The numeric keypad only goes up to six. The password is "Bubba". There's a gun rack mounted on the CPU. There's a Coors can in the cup holder(CD-ROM drive). The keyboard is camouflaged. The mouse is referred to as a "critter". ... does not mean that that we all live in trailers down here. FireDragon, The problem is not your post. Thanks Bubba

Steven, I have some customers running gerber machines. (Mostly in the textile biz cutting cloth.) I have a gerber.pst that will run the clothe cutters. If you e-mail me some sample code I might be able to hook you up. -Bubba Send prism or innovative (whichever is your dealer) some sample code and they can get you a post. Thanks Jimmy

There is an editor inside of Mastercam (mcedit) that does this. Main menu-file-edit-editor- select mcedit. Scale/shift/abs to inc are all under nc utils. Thanks Jimmy

During onsite install I kept having problems. Tried patch. Nope... My problem was that I was not logged administrator. The message I was getting was not telling me that. It was saying that it could reg some .dll. After logging on as admin all went well. Jimmy

Slick, The pause is metacut parsing toolpaths for tool info, limits, etc. It then puts this info at end of nci as g-code 1005. Most posts have a call to comment in the peof postblock and this is were the magic happens. You can fix it here or... If when you start Mastercam you click on Metacut button to open it then close it the chook does not put the mcu stuff on the op manager. I think the swinging window is cool. Thanks Jimmy

Jammer Have you checked out "How to increase Mastercam Performance" under tech tips? Its good stuff. Jimmy

Scott, I cut and pasted this out the "What's New File" Simplified Entry and Exit The Entry/Exit dialog has been simplified by removing the Approach Height and Retract Height options. Entry and exit moves will now use the Clearance, Retract, and Feed planes like other toolpaths. The idea or direction is to try to make the same thing (leadin/out in this case) look and behave the same as in other toolpaths so if you can run a 2D contour then its not a big leap to go to curve5ax. Jimmy

Go to the mill shortcut on your desktop right click on it properties at the end of target line put a space and your config file name then push apply C:Mcam9MILL9.EXE your.cfg Double and go SocklessJimmyJoe

screen-config-start/exit select your file Jimmy

Check your job set up to see if under feed caclulation material is checked or from tool is checked. You can set this as default under screen-config-nc settings-operation defaults or under nc utils