There is a link at the bottom of the page to Vericut it would do that and more. Some others come to mind as well. The verification software avail today will make nice html pages with automatic screen captures at tool changes, tool lists, movies of cutterpaths, machine verification. The list goes on. Allan P.S. The rev posts are tricky enough the subs would make a guy bald.

Why would you want to reverse post? To backplot? You could get Cimco edit to do that. To verify? There are several packages that do this on gcode not some reverse posted NCI stuff. To scale? you could get Cimco edit to do that or just use the old MCedit. To import the NCI file into a new job? Well O.K. might be nice but you've only got V7 so you can't do that anyway. Why? Allan

How about getting a .plt file from Catia and using the readHPGL.dll c-hook to read it in. Presto 2D data Allan

The highfeed breaks up the code to insert acell and decell moves to acomodate what the machine is capable of. There are no exact stops inserted just more code with smooth flowing feed rates. The default is out to lunch at 20in/min maximum feed rate change per block you will want something more realistic like 2 to 5 in/min Allan

BerTau, if it is not broken don’t fix it. I've used Win98 successfully with MC. Just try Win2000 on your next computer Allan

You must run some form of client network software on the dos machine most likely msclient you will be able to map a drive in the dos machine to a windows box share. You can get the client software from Microsoft. You will not be able to share a directory in dos without running some sort of server software. If you really want to go that route win3.11 windows for workgroups would be a good choice if you could scrape the dust off the disks. I can see it now. "CRC error" Good luck Allan

Thread milling that I have done involved using a threadform inserted cutter with one flute and usually 8-12 active teeth. Different inserts for different pitches. Mastercam has a parameter for pitch and number of active teeth. Set these acordingly. You'll want cuttercomp so set it up I would use wear comp (comp in control and comp in computer on). Speed and feed depends on everything but you should start about 400SFM on mild steel and .002/rev. If you machine does not support helical moves you will want to linerize the moves. Hope that helps. Allan

Luc is absolutly correct, the arcs are 180 deg segements in the NCI file. You could wait for V9 or do tons of buffering and math to capture 360 deg arc moves and output them the way you like . Allan

If you've changed your lathe8.txt file it will produce an error but not that one. Check your exe date in Mastercam press alt-v it will display exe date. Allan [ 02-06-2002, 09:11 PM: Message edited by: Allan ]

How about the old setdirs.dll c-hook? I would set that as the startup c-hook and when you launch Mastercam it will prompt you for the project directory. Allan

Make sure that you are using V8.1.1 this was an issue with Lathe V8.0 Allan

Levels C-Hook for V7 This ones for V7, could work in V8. I've used one in V8 not sure if it's this one or not. Allan

Use the sortiges.dll c-hook and configure it using the sortiges.dat file, should take care of the sorting issue. The levels.dll c-hook is a nice complement when cleaning up your files. Allan

Plasttav, I believe you are refering to the entity type that is created. Splines Vs. Surface Curves. I normaly change from the create curve cont prm options. To surface curves then backup and create curve all edges and pick my surface. Allan

Turn the acceleration to none in the display properties. If it still fails to work get a chevette and drive over it. Allan

Depending on the era of your post the line would be in pgear postblock or ptlchg or ltlchg. Look for spdlon or something close as a string select near top of post (You will see the M3 there). Search further down in the post for spdlon and you will see where it comes out. Can you post the prpm postblock? Allan

I think the previous method will not work in your case. Most likely you will get an error indx_out not defined or whatever. You want to search in the post for the format statments FS. The xabs for instance uses format statment 2 look for FS 2 change the coresponding FS to reflect the desired output. fs 2 0.4 would give you the Decimal note the decimal in the format statment Allan

What would be more correct than the spline? They do not want the cam to be smooth and free flowing? You could create lines from point to point j/k. How big is the data set? Allan

Does the machine take code like this? code: % PNT G20; (CONTOUR); N5 G101 XB-2.2762A YB+2.2280A XE-2.2762A YE+1.9280A TC0 F0. D0.5000 CR0.0 T1; N10 G103 XB-2.2762A YB+1.9280A XE-1.9762A YE+1.6280A XC-1.9762A YC+1.9280A TC0 F0.D0.5000 CR0.3000 T1; N15 G101 XB-1.9762A YB+1.6280A XE+2.9804A YE+1.6280A TC0 F0. D0.5000 CR0.0 T1; N20 G102 XB+2.9804A YB+1.6280A XE+3.2304A YE+1.3780A XC+2.9804A YC+1.3780A TC0 F0.D0.5000 CR0.2500 T1; N25 G101 XB+3.2304A YB+1.3780A XE+3.2304A YE-1.7092A TC0 F0. D0.5000 CR0.0 T1; N30 G102 XB+3.2304A YB-1.7092A XE+2.9804A YE-1.9592A XC+2.9804A YC-1.7092A TC0 F0.D0.5000 CR0.2500 T1; N35 G101 XB+2.9804A YB-1.9592A XE-1.9762A YE-1.9592A TC0 F0. D0.5000 CR0.0 T1; N40 G102 XB-1.9762A YB-1.9592A XE-2.2262A YE-1.7092A XC-1.9762A YC-1.7092A TC0 F0.D0.5000 CR0.2500 T1; N45 G101 XB-2.2262A YB-1.7092A XE-2.2262A YE+1.3780A TC0 F0. D0.5000 CR0.0 T1; N50 G102 XB-2.2262A YB+1.3780A XE-1.9762A YE+1.6280A XC-1.9762A YC+1.3780A TC0 F0.D0.5000 CR0.2500 T1; N55 G103 XB-1.9762A YB+1.6280A XE-1.6762A YE+1.9280A XC-1.9762A YC+1.9280A TC0 F0.D0.5000 CR0.3000 T1; N60 G101 XB-1.6762A YB+1.9280A XE-1.6762A YE+2.2280A TC0 F0. D0.5000 CR-0.0 T1; N65 ( SET NEW Z! ); % I have a customer who has a similar setup but the Ezfile comm software needs the file to have a .txt ext. There are no specila characters at the file end. Allan

I've seen this before on a XP home edition laptop the fix was to delete the win9X hasp drivers hasp95.sys? ((I think) some one with win98 can confirm) The installer some how installed both drivers and they conflict. Allan

Windows xp certainly does have the command prompt it may not have a shortcut to it in the program files. Try going to the run command and type cmd Allan

Mastercam could communicate with the Mazak, you'll need to set the parameters to binary. Done it a couple of times, Mazak charge you big for the g-code option on the lathes, check out the mazatrol post. Good luck Allan

I've seen that run once thing kill an OS one time it was some DNC software that shall remain nameless. When done installing it wanted to reboot (O.K. I thought) the only thing I could get after that was an explorer crash opon boot [ 11-29-2001: Message edited by: Allan ]

The type 108 enties planes switch works on my patched version 8.1.1 4/26/2001 but not on my release version 5/01/2001. even with the patch that was directed at this problem. It works fine in a newer version [ 11-27-2001: Message edited by: Allan ]

If the CAD data was created using Parametric surfaces every time you translate the geometry you'll get a copy of it the blanked eneties, file size grows quick. Try modify X to Nurbs it'll change those nasty parametric surfaces to nurbs. Allan