Yeah John its Mike, I didn't even realize that was you. Didn't want to bother you over something stupid like this, that I should have known how to do. I guess my mind just ain't what it used to be, 'cause once I saw the code this morning, . Again thanks for the help John.

Sorry, for not responding to your suggestions last night. Thanks for the help JParis. I'll try them this morning. And yes I'm using MPMaster Fadal, guess I forgot to mention that. Again thanks for the help guys.

I've been tweaking our posts for years,(even when I wasn't the programmer) but after just replacing our last programmer, and trying to get the posts to work correctly after he butchered them is proving quite a challenge. These last 2 problems should finally get things just right. I am trying to get the post to not put out a "D" value (Diameter offset) on a drill tool path. I haven't been able to figure this out. I want to be able to have this on all of or mills (Fadal's with CNC88 and Fanuc controls, and our Okuma 630H horizontal with a Fanuc control). The other option I would like to be able to add is a "G4P3000" after the spindle is turned on when the RPM's are above 7500. Our Fadals take a little bit to reach the higher rpms, and I want to make sure the spindle is up to speed before the tool hits the part. Fadals have the option to wait for the spindle before moving, but I don't want to wait the whole time. A couple of seconds is usually enough to get the spindle going while the rest of the speed up is done while moving to the part. Any help would be apreciated.

When you set "roll cutter around corners" to all you also need to turn on corner break (just below), go into that menu and tell Mastercam what you want for a corner break, radius or chamfer. If you don't turn on corner break Mastercam will wrap the tool around the corner, but leave it sharp. I do know that sometimes Mastercam wont output an arc move (instead it outputs a straight line move)if the radius start and endpoints fall within your tolerance zone. Could be the reason you don't get a round corner between your 177 surfaces. JMHO.

I found an easy way to be able to program VTL's from the front of the machine. All I did is edit the post to flip G2-G3 and, set the planes to the following: Gview= Top-Lathe VTL WCS= Top CPlane= -D+Z(TOP) TPlane= Top This way I can take the engineers toolsheet for the part, which shows the tools as how you would see them from an operators POV and how they are loaded onto the turret, and you can program on the right side of the part in X+/D+. This makes life so much easier, but only works on VTL's with the turret to the right. I say this because we have a small VTL that has the turret on the left, so I program this like a slant bed, with the post I have set up for our slantbeds. The programmer I replaced did it like you guys do, from the back and I had a hard time grasping this, and remembering to flip the orientation of the tool in Mastercam compared to the tool sheets. Maybe this will help some of you.