There are many discerning customers that have their cynicism with surface finish, repeat ability, and through put. If I were purchasing a quarter million dollar machine and had no past experiences with them, I'd be hard pressed to go strictly by merit and have only the words of a tool salesman to console me during the purchase process. Depending on how serious the customer is in purchasing a machine and have genuine concerns that would need the real use of a machine, we could make the arrangements to get a "test drive" with customer material and print.

That did it!

Looks like this is the only thing that resembles what you posted. pwcs #G54+ coordinate setting at toolchange if mi1$ > one, [ sav_frc_wcs = force_wcs if sub_level$ > 0, force_wcs = zero if workofs$ <> prv_workofs$ | (force_wcs & toolchng), [ if workofs$ < 6, [ g_wcs = workofs$ + 54 ] else, [ g_wcs = workofs$ + 104 ] if workofs$ >= 0 & workofs$ <= 25, *g_wcs else, [ if mprint(swcserror, 2) = 2, exitpost$ ] ] force_wcs = sav_frc_wcs !workofs$ ]

Will i need to add that line? It doesn't seem to exist in 5 axis post

sorry about that, added a link for dl

Hello all. I've been working on a post for the shop on their haas vf6 with Trunnion 5 axis. Everything seems to be posting fine but I would like a tool list to appear in the same manner as the Generic Haas 4x Mill post. I tried to take some of the lines that refer to ptooltable to the new 5x post but so far I only get the very first tool and only the first tool to post in the list. here's an example: % O1002 ( OP2-24127-19 REV M ) ( 30-10-12 | 14:00 ) ( ==TOOL List== ) ( T1 1/4 CTR DRILL | D: .25 ) <= Should populate rest of the tools but stops at the 1st one N1 G20 N2 G0 G17 G40 G49 G80 G90 N3 G0 G28 G91 Z0. N4 ( T1 | 1/4 CTR DRILL ) <= Tool comment link to post dl: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxurnmgvxpkq2o9/Generic%20Haas%20VF-TR_Series%205X%20Mill.pst thanks in advance!

I apologize and thank you guys in advance. I've looking at all previous posts of this problem and haven't found the solution for me yet. Using X5 Transform TP I'm trying to generate multiple setups with consecutive offsets G54 and G56 -After creating the TP i go to Transform tool path -Type-Translate -Method- Toolpath, Check Include origin and save views - Source- NCI -GRP NCI Output by- Op Type -Copy source Ops -Disable Posting in selected source ops -Work Offset number- Assign New- Start 0, Increment 2 Translate Tab -Between Pts -Instances - 1 -from and to pt 0 The post spits out the toolpaths with only a single G54 on both paths. No new g54 called out. As of right now, I'm doing it the long way by copying each operation in the toolpath mgr and creating a copy of the top plate setting it to offset 2 and setting the original top plane to 0 . Even though This does give me the desired result, and more control IE being able to control the operation's cutting order within the offsets, I'd like to use the former way in translate in time when I'm in a rush and need to spit gcode out quickly. Thanks again!

Go into Control Definitions Manager > NC Output > Mill> Set Maximum Sequence number to anything less than 25,000 (I have it set at 9999)

This thread was a lot of help in posting code for a 4 axis setup I have although I'm getting some trouble with posting different offsets whenever the toolplane is changed. For instance it starts out with g54 on the first top plate and then g55 on the next rotation, g56 for the next rotation and so on... any way to keep the offset on g54? Another thing, when I code the toolpaths individually, it will post g54 regardless of the rotation.

U usually just save my file then ctrl+alt+del and end process Mastercam.exe Its annoying buy atleast I don't lose my progress.

That makes sense.

My assumption was that FBM might save some time with repetitive parts with small variations but at the expense of control. I guess I'll have to find other ways to save some time.

We just took in a job with some honeycomb. We tried a few runs with wax but im going to suggest ice. We also have some liquid nitrogen that we can use on our fixtures. Anyone know psycomills suggestion of using the kids toy "slime "?

We're getting pretty loaded at our shop and I'm looking for ways to become more efficient in my programming. We do aerospace parts with somewhat tight tolerances in some of the parts. Is fbm milling worth tuning up? How much time can I really save with the feature. Granted, our jobs do vary quite a bit, we do have a good number of 2D parts with two setups top and bottom.

Cool beans. Looks like ill be sticking with my create curve on edge technique.