I am hoping someone can help here. We have a Mazak Variaxis i800 with a Postability post. The post has been working well for us for years, with an occasional tweak being needed.
Our other 5X machine is down, so I had to reprogram a part to run on this machine. Ive attached a zip2go.
At the start of the morph toolpath the machine is attempting to move to a point that appears to be 180° from "X"
, which would plow thru the vise. I've never attempted this 4 axis path on this machine before, but if I change the tool axis control to 5-axis fixed angle to axis Z, it outputs close to the same code.

In the image I've hidden one vise jaw & shown the path that the machine is trying to follow. The red marking is where the path should start. The green marking is where the path is trying to start

Is this a post issue?

test.ZIP

2022

This is becoming very frustrating. We use viewsheets extensively (as the graphics for setup sheets), the drafting entities randomly disappear from the screen, only in created viewsheets, not in the main viewsheet (viewsheet 1). The entities are there if you run screen statistics, but they are not displayed, eventually they will comeback, but we have no idea what brings them back. It is not universal, in the same file, some viewsheets will do this & some won't. And is random AF, Close the file & reopen it and completely different sheets will be effected.

If anyone else is experiencing this and has found a solution, please enlighten us.

1 hour ago, Chally72 said:

That's unfortunate, as embedded videos worked really well here.

Agreed

On 8/24/2022 at 6:19 PM, cncappsjames said:

LOL I hate autoINcorrect.

Fixed it for you. :)

20 hours ago, #Rekd™ said:

This gives a deeper history of the CAD side.

https://www.cadazz.com/cad-software-history.htm

This is a fascinating read! Thanks

Those feed codes look like G93 values, but I only see a G94 call.

On 8/13/2022 at 8:10 AM, JParis said:

Apparently we can no longer embed YouTube videos???

That kind a bites

Yes, but you can triple-click to select the link, right click & open it in a new tab. At least in Firefox, I rarely use any other browser, so I can't speak to how they work.

This happens to me in 2022 often. Usually when I create the 1st Optirough path in a file, then save the file. It goes dirty, I regen it & save it, then all is well. It is irritating, but since CNC has moved to 2023 you can be sure it won't be fixed.

I'm pretty sure they come from your Machine definition.

On 8/7/2022 at 1:42 PM, crazy^millman said:

Need to use the choose file option to upload it. You cannot drag and drop photos anymore on this forum is link to outside sites. The slow death of the forum.

You can still drag & drop pictures, you just have to drag them into the correct spot.

Does he have his config set to bring solids in as surfaces?

Like this.

Doesn't Harvey offer Helical's coatings?

The AlTiN coating works well. We've used it on a few jobs here with good success.

Never mind, I figured it out. The path has to be in quotes if there are spaces in it.

Just now, JParis said:

Try this..notice the quotes

copy "C:\Users\johnp\Documents\My Mastercam 2023\Mastercam\CONFIG\mastercam.workspace" "C:\Users\johnp\Desktop"

I just realized that too. I hadn't noticed the space in my username

18 hours ago, Glenn Bouman said:

you will need to create a batch file that copies one of the 3 workspace files to the \config\mastercam.workspace. 

I'm not very good with this, it seems like it should be fairly straight forward, but I'm doing something wrong. I created a couple of folders, with copied files in them, on my desktop to try it out and made this batch file:

@ECHO
copy C:\Users\Zeke Radford\Desktop\from_here\Zeke.config C:\Users\Zeke Radford\Desktop\to_here\Zeke.config
copy C:\Users\Zeke Radford\Desktop\from_here\Mastercam.Workspace C:\Users\Zeke Radford\Desktop\to_here\Mastercam.Workspace
copy C:\Users\Zeke Radford\Desktop\from_here\mcamx.config C:\Users\Zeke Radford\Desktop\to_here\mcamx.config
copy C:\Users\Zeke Radford\Desktop\from_here\mcamxm.config C:\Users\Zeke Radford\Desktop\to_here\mcamxm.config
PAUSE

But when i run it I get "The system cannot find the file specified." on each line.

Any idea what I'm missing?

Is it possible to create multiple MC configurations?

I'm going to start training one of our operators to program. I use a modified configuration; custom RMB, background colors & gradients, keyboard shortcuts etc.

Since he's going to be practicing with HLE at home, I would like to train him with the default setup.

Is it possible to save a couple of files or folders in a safe location that I can reload to change the configs back & forth?

42 minutes ago, Doug Funny said:

EUREKA! Thank you sir! I've been a Camworks user for most of my career and only recently started using Mastercam. This forum is so much better than any I've found for camworks. There are a lot of incredibly smart and helpful people here. More often than not, I get answers here quicker than from tech support...

Glad I was able to help. Sorry it took so many tries, it was a long time ago that I modded that post and I'm getting senile. :)

1 hour ago, Doug Funny said:

Hi Tim,

I want the N numbers to be sequential regardless of the tool number and only at the tool change. So not a Guru has gotten me to the point where I get N numbers on my tool changes but, there seems to be a bit of logic missing because they are all the same number.

 

N1 TXX M6

N2 TXX M6

N3 TXX M6

In the ptlchg_com postblock

After this line:

          if tseqno = 2, n$ = t$

Add this line:

      if tseqno = 3, n$ = opmgr_opno

2 hours ago, Doug Funny said:

I was able to add the line but, when I went to post I get an error. do I need to define  opmgr_opno as a variable name?

Yes, I'm sorry. In the Misc strings section add:

opmgr_opno  : 0    #15240 - Operation number

2 hours ago, Doug Funny said:

I was able to add the line but, when I went to post I get an error. do I need to define  opmgr_opno as a variable name?

You are actually adding a string, not a variable.

1 minute ago, So not a Guru said:

You are actually adding a string, not a variable.

The added line initializes the string

8 minutes ago, Doug Funny said:

I can't find pprameter$ in my post

Whoops, it should read

pparameter$

That's what I call a bold pirate!

I added this function to a MPMaster post several years ago.

In the General output settings section:

tseqno      : 3     #Output sequence number at toolchanges when omitseq = yes
                    #0=off, 1=seq numbers match toolchange number, 2=seq numbers match tool number, 3 = Mastercam Operations Manager Operation Number

in the pprameter$ postblock add:

           if prmcode$ = 15240, opmgr_opno = rpar(sparameter$,1)      #Operation number

Turn off "Output sequence numbers in the CD:

Anyone have a recommendation for a Laser with a 4 x 8 table? We would be using it mostly for cutting wood veneer.

1 hour ago, gcode said:

I never knew you could do that.

I'll bet that was dead dog slow 

Yes, it was slow as hell. But it did work.

15 hours ago, gcode said:

 

 

Here's one for old timers

Who remembers dropping $3K on a PC and it won't run your CAD/CAM software because

you forgot to buy the optional math chip ... and then you find out your mother board does not have a slot

for said math chip 

Yes, and having to run a math co-processor  emulator from a floppy.

The only way I know is to have the veiwsheet active while you renumber the level.