Thanks Again for everyone's help! Really appreciate it! Problem solved, Thanks Chris.

Kieth-thanks, but I could not open your file for some reason. It sounds like what I am trying to do and everything I did. It just will not post out the C moves.

Yes. How and where should I send it?

"If you are repeating the same cut at the initial position, then repeating it 120 degrees away, you should just use a transform rotate toolpath (make sure you select toolplane rotation)." "Otherwise just define a new toolplane that is a 120 degree rotation about Z of your original toolplane and program the next cut." -This is exactly what I am trying to do. I have tried both of these ways many,many times. When TRANSFORM Rotate everything looks good in the graphics window, but I need the rotary table to physically turn 120 degrees or else i will run out travel on the Y axis. When I create a new toolplane rotating about Z, there is absolutely no change in my post. It will cut the same contour, in the same place without rotating the part. I am using a horizontal miller,with a rotary rotating about z axis, and my planes are set to WCS=top Tool=front, Comp/const=front. When I create my new rotated plane, I change my Tool and Comp plane to "new view" I believe I am doing everything correct.I work with 4th and 5th axis all day long, but never had this situation before.

No they are simple 2d contours and then some drilling. I just need to make the parts in section, because we took on a part much larger than our capability (sound familiar everyone?) The post actually came from you guys up there. I cannot get the post to rotate 120 degrees about the z axis to repostion the part. I must be missing something simple.

I don't see "intial primary" in the integers, but i do have "intial rotary axis position" in the misc. reals. I tried to change it to 120.0 but had no effect. I will try changing that and rotating my T/C planes. If I rotate both C and B axis in the tool plane everything works great(as to drill in the side of the part). I tried other posts/ machines and none would give me the desired results.

Yes. That was the first thing I tried. Made no difference.

Hello I have a large piece on a HMC boring mill w/5th axis ©. The part is too big to mill without over traveling. I need to mill a section then rotate my C-axis 120 degrees and repeat, something which I have done before but long ago. I think I tried every combination in the transform/rotate tool paths. I tried to set the machine limits, but that had no impact in the NC file. Is there something simple I am missing? Is there something wrong with my post? It is a custom 5 axis HMC post from my reseller,But want to make sure I am not missing something before I contact them( I need help ASAP). It doesn't seem like it should be this hard! I figured out a hundred different ways to "cheat" it, but want to know the right way.I am using X5. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for all your help Keith! I changed the format statement and all is well.

I figured out if I enter 0.1 for the index increment it will work, except I noticed was there aren't any decimal points after the angles if it is a whole number for example A90.0 will post out A90 but A1.5 will post correctly.

Thanks Keith. Almost got it.The lock turns off/on now. I had changed in the post not the machine def. I am ,in this case, just indexing. I entered a value of .001 for the index increment in the machine def- the table will handle .001 of a degree. Now when i post, I get the error message "WARNING - INDEX ANGLE DOES NOT MATCH POST SETTING ('ctable')" In the post there is a value of "5" enter for the ctable any suggestions? please?

Both machines are fadals. One has a fanuc control and the other a fadal control. Both use M60 and M61.

Hello. I am using X5. I am trying to get the Rotary Axis Lock to work using the Generic Fanuc 4 axis post. I changed the rot_lock switch to "1" and it still does not work. If I post the same program on the Fadal post, it works fine. I tried switching from continuous to indexing, but that had no effect. Is there anything else I need change?

I looked at the post and I can't see anything that would change this, but I am no expert. What should I be looking for?

Thanks I did change the machine def to shortest path and that had no effect. I noticed it only "winds up" when I post out multiple tool paths. If i post out a single toolpath, changing the machine def will fix the problem, but when I add the next path, which I am using axis subsitution, it continues where the previous path left off( if I post out just the axis sub path alone, it also works fine). The post does post out the "M15" and "M16". I will try to edit the post but initially nothing jumped out at me as being off.