Thank jlw. I will do it.

This part 1.25 x 26.00 OD. The water channel is .600 depth inside and 5.00 c-bore x 2.500 dia through.

I am sorry. This material is Al 5086 in stead of 5080. thank Nckbe10 for your inputs.

Hello everyone, I got trouble to machine Al 5080. The part will be twisted like metal after first rough op. can someone give me a direction how to tackle this part. Thanks. Lamlinh.

Hello All, Could someone helps me to modify a post so that I can output G54 G0 G90 X0. Y0. S480 M3 G43 H1 Z.25 M29 S480 G98 G83 Z-.5 R.25 F.0313 G80 INSTEAD OF G54 G0 G90 X0. Y0. MISSING S480 M3 G43 H1 Z.25 M29 S480 G98 G83 Z-.5 R.25 F.0313 G80 Thanks.

Hi Crazy Millman, Thank you for your information. It will help me alot!!!. The material will arrive next week. I will let you know after machinning it. I just wonder this kind of thread belongs to ACME's family? Thanks again. Lamlinh

Hello All !! The customer provides me material A36 32" OD X 14" ID X 8.5 Long and they want me to machine a thread (15.500-2SAM2-2G. MINOR 15.25-15.275. Major 15.52-15.565. Picth 15.375-15.42). I have not done this thread before and what kind of thread is it?. Can someone gives me a direction how to machine it. I mean CSS, Feedrate and depth of cut etc. Thanks. Lamlinh

your part is one 4 aix setup therefore you can not run fast. That is reason which we have to slow down the feed rate.

Try this 1/2 cabide coated emill - .1doc, rpm 800, 10-15 ipm with 10% dynamic toolpath (ramp it to the depth).

Thank Allan

Thank your inputs. I want to make my statement more clear. I have .1 diamond drill tub already. .1 dia hole at the center of material is through and I use Haas machine without coolant through spindle. Thank.

I totally agree with Goldorak.

Hi All, My customer provides me material: Soda Lime Glass- 2" Dia x .05 thick. He wants me to make .1 hole at center of material by next week, however I have not machined this material before. Could someone points me a direction how to hold the material, Feed rate and RPm. Any input will be appriciated. Thanks.

Hi All, Keith A-1. I selected retract of .1 above the part as absolute. Chris.Thank alot!!!. Everything goes smoothly now.

Hello Chris, Thank for the post and it works now. There is a problem with drill canned cycle. I set clearance .25 above the part and retract .1 obove the part, the post come out as following. G83 Z-1. R-.15 Q2500 F.01 (R-.14 should be .1) G80 and also my longhand drill is the same as above. G83 Z-1. R-.15 Q2500 F.01 G80 For the longhand drill, subsequent peck, peck clearance and retract amount in the operation are grey out. can you help me to modify the post. Thank.

Hi All, I use MX5 with lathe post- mplfan. I want to have n# = t# for each tool in my lathe program. can someone helps me with my post? Thanks.

Hi JParis and Cjep, Work great!!!!!!! Thanks

Hi All, I use X5 with MPFAN. Every time, I click on linking paramaters under toolpath, It will show me (RETRACT - INCREMENTAL. FEED PLANE - INCREMENTAL AND DEPTH - INCREMENTAL). I would like to change them into ABSOLUTE. Can someone help me to fix it?. Thanks.

Hi Chris & Greyman, After I delete those lines 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - PST LINE (766) - Label has not been defined[7] 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - PST LINE (769) - Label has not been defined[4] 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - PST LINE (2222) - Label has not been defined[7] My post works great!!! Thank both of you.

Hi Chris, can you explain "I don't believe that post block has been defined" to me? and where do I place pspc # Creates spaces based tool level setting if sav_spc = one & omitseq$ = no$, " " in post? Thanks.

Hi Chris & Greymen, Thank for your relies. To be honest, I don't know much about editing the post, but I think I have made progress with your helps. I hope you don't mind if I keep asking you guys questions. Thanks

Hi All, Now I got z min & max for each tools however when I output NC file, I get a message "errors were detected during posting!" and here is 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <0> - Report created. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - Initialize posting log file 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - Using MP run version 14.00 and post components version 14.00 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - Initiate opening the post processor file(s). 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - C:\USERS\PUBLIC\DOCUMENTS\SHARED MCAMX5\MILL\POSTS\MPFAN5X.PST 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - The post processor file has been successfully opened. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - Post version information (input): 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - UPDATEPOST Version 14. was used to modify this file. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - The file was modified by this product on 22 Jan 09 10:52:44 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - The post was written to run with Mastercam Version 14. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - The post product type is Mill. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - Initialization of pre-defined post variables, strings, postblocks was successful. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - Search for defined post variables, strings, postblocks was successful. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - PST LINE (766) - Label has not been defined[7] 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - PST LINE (769) - Label has not been defined[4] 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - PST LINE (2222) - Label has not been defined[7] 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'maxnccomment$' was re-initialized from 256. to 120. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'dec_seq_left$' was re-initialized from 3. to 4. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'omitseq$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'sub_seq_typ$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'tplanemode$' was re-initialized from 2. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'bldnxtool$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'nobrk$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'nobrkxz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'nobrkyz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'lnobrk$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'lnobrkxz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'lnobrkyz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'arctype$' was re-initialized from 5. to 2. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'arcoutput$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'arctypexz$' was re-initialized from 5. to 2. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'arcoutputxz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'arctypeyz$' was re-initialized from 5. to 2. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'arcoutputyz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'larcoutput$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'larctypexz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'larcoutputyz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'breakarcs$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'breakarcsxz$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'breakarcsyz$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'lbreakarcs$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'lbreakarcsxz$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'lbreakarcsyz$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'do_full_arc$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'do_full_arcxz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'do_full_arcyz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'ldo_full_arc$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'ldo_full_arcxz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'ldo_full_arcyz$' was re-initialized from 1. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'rotfeed4$' was re-initialized from 2. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'rotfeed5$' was re-initialized from 3. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'lrotfeed4$' was re-initialized from 2. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'lrotfeed5$' was re-initialized from 0. to 1. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - CONTROL DEFINITION - Post variable 'sub_level$' was re-initialized from 0. to 0. 29 Oct 2011 04:22:00 PM - <2> - Successful completion of posting process! could someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks

Thank for your input. I forgot to tell you that I use X5 MPFAN. I followed your instructions. I got Z MIN & MAX with first tool instead of all tools. I think I did not put your codes at right place. Can you be patient to walk me through?. Thanks.

Hi All, My operators want me to post max & min z depth after tool change for them so that they watch out tools. here is my example GO G20 G40 G80 G90 G98 T1 M6 OLD G0 G20 G40 G80 G90 G98 T1 M6 (MIN DEPTH Z = 0) (MAX DEPTH Z = -1.5) NEW could someone help me to modify the post. I use MPFANPOST. Thanks. Lamlinh