Here are the steps to use the program. 1. Install program 2. Run the program 3. Use the open command to load and correct the post. When the program is complete it will notify you and it will have made a backup copy of the post. If your post has a psb file the parameter tables might be inside the .psb file. If this is the case then this utility will not fix the issue and you will need to send the post to your reseller to have it corrected. Hope this helps Alex

If any of your posts are a mpmaster based post then you will need to update the parameter tables to get the correct output. I created a utility that will scan and correct these issues in the post. It can be found in THIS THREAD You can find details about the parameter tables that need corrected in mpmaster based posts in THIS THREAD Again these are for mpmaster based post processors. If your posts were built from default posts that came with the install of Mastercam then thsi should not apply Alex Cole

There should not be any issue getting these up and running in Mastercam. Contact your local reseller and talk with them about getting the posts setup. I am sure they would be glad to help Alex

Mike, It's nice to hear from you again. Alex

I can try to work on it. It may take me a little while as I am very busy at the moment. Alex

Dave, Try the new download. It should fix the issues with invalid range values. Let me know how the new download works on your systems. Alex

Revision 3 is now available for download. I found in my testing that some tools in X3 are outputting different cut types. I have tested this version of Tool Manager and I cannot break it on my system here. Please let me know of any issues you encounter. Download: www.fastechinc.net/Tool_Manager_REL.zip Alex

CNC Apps Guy. Thank you for providing feedback. Can you email me the error details you received with your tool lib. [email protected] What tool type was it on.. In the error details was it processing line 7 data or 8. Last night I had some time to do more extensive testing. I found some new values being output ouside the ranges of what the header describes. I have made some fixes to catch two of the issues. I will be uploading that version and replacing the download that is currently available. Give me a little while and I will post an announcement when the new download is available. Alex

I just wanted to let everyone know that now the download in my msg above and the link to download in this msg will be downloading the newer version that will run on the Windows Vista platform. Please let me know how this works for you. Download: www.fastechinc.net/Tool_Manager_REL.zip Alex

No. At this point is uses no spread sheet. I am going to look into adding the mass replace field option. Thinking about this. some of the fields will not be able to mass change or the mass change needs to be confined to the tool type. I will try to add some stuff to it. It will just take a little time. Alex

Not sure on that one. I would recommend working with a xxxxor tech before changing a bunch of stuff. To measure your pivot length from spindle face to center of rotation you can touch the face of your empty spindle(vertical) off on a 1x2x3 block. Then note the z position of where you touched off. Now remove the 123 block and position the head at the same Z value of where you were when you touched off on the 123 block. Rotate the head up to where it is at 90 degrees (horizontal) Take a Height guage and find the distance from the outer ring of your spindle to the face of the 123 block you referenced. Simply subtract the radius of the ring on your spindle you located with the height guage and you have the exact distance from the face of your spindle to the center of rotation on that axis. Hope this helps. Alex

The P number that is ref. in my msg is a parameter number in the tables of your controller. How the TCP works is you have parameters to enable it. That makes the controller look at other parameters like the Xform1,2,and3(as I recall) These are the shift registers that tell the controller how the controller should track the pivot. Then the controller will use the tool lengths that are applied along with the pivot that is setup in the parameters to calculate and allow TCP to function. You may want to call xxxxOR and talk with one of there techs. They have always been very helpful. 2250 Estes Ave Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 Phone: 800-423-2467 Alex

To those of you running Vista. I have converted this utility over to the Vista platform. I do not have access to upload it to our server from here but I can in the morning. Until then if you would like a copy emailed to you send me an email at [email protected] and I will send you back the install files. The install is smaller than 1Mb. Alex

The app was designed to allow you to quickly go from one tools data to another to modify values without having to close and open each tool. I will look into adding a mass change command that will allow a user to change a value on all tools of a type or somthing. As for the language issue. I have found this now in two of my utilities. It appears that one of the functions I am using is only able to process the data using the character set that the application was compiled in. I am looking into it but I cannot make any promises as this is not my main job. I just like to make little apps in an attempt to help some of you guys out there. Alex

Also if you are doing this in a post then mp should automatically create a prv_ variable for your variable holding the work offset. You can simply compare them too. Alex