Hi Fellas,

Corey did you get any feedback on your last questions on this thread?  My whole career I've run my own programs and I've never figured I'd need CAV, but it is a new world for me as I'm also looking to learn y-axis lathes.  Any advice you have(pricing, ease of use) would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

Most excellent!!!  I'm really excited to have this fix.  I"m going to put this in my post for my shop version which is 2017 and doesn't have this issue, but you can never be too safe!!!

I'm just usig the Mastercam X Editor to edit the post, how would I get Code Expert Editor?  

Thanks again!!  I owe you a beer or 6 if you ever make to the Left Coast!!

This is the first time I've ever edited a post so bear with me:)

On 1/9/2018 at 6:55 AM, Colin Gilchrist said:

X5 was buggy with the Tool Numbers matching H and D numbers.

You can fix this in 60 seconds and never worry about it again.

Open your Post Processor File, in a Text Editor.

Find the Variables at the top of the Post, and add these two Global Formulas, starting in the 1st column:

tllngno$ = t$

tloffno$ = t$

Now, every time you Post, MP will ignore the settings in your Tool Page of the Operation, and will Force all H and D numbers to match the tool number.

You can ignore whatever is inside the dialog box in Mastercam. Only the T# will matter, since the global formulas will do the work for you.

I've entered these values at the top of my post and the D value is following the tool but the H value is not, any ideas?

Thanks Colin!!

Cheers,

Bo

Sorry I didn't specify it will post fine but when I'm programing my tools in the page where my tool spindle speed etc are listed the tool length and diameter numbers will not snyc with my tool number listed.  Even when I use the right click-edit operations and re-number tools I still have to go in every operation and manually put in the proper tool values.

My day job has me stuck in X5, I have a copy of 2017 I use when I'm moonlighting.  No issues with the 2017, but I can't get the X5 tool numbers to sync with the H&T values.  It's like the programmer before me locked parameters somehow.  I've change to my own machine definition and that's solved most of my issues but I still have to manually input T H and D values for each tool.  Any advice would be great,

Cheers,

Bo Price