One of the machines I program had a pretty serious crash a few years back, and needs to be programmed to move 1 deg past, then back when moving in the positive direction in B. Is there any straight forward way to change the post to do this? Afraid it's beyond my entry level post editing abilities, and the company will not pay for post work from MCAMNW for these older machines... so I'm on my own either editing this in by hand after post, or figuring out the post edits myself.

So I contacted my re-seller yesterday, chatted briefly on the phone and was told he'd send me a link to the post processor guide and the powerpoint presentation on setting up a 5 axis (well, 3+2) post for our horizontals (B and A, but we run them with a 90.### offset in B axis and program the A as C axis, but use the A adress [don't judge, I just started here a few weeks ago]). What I got in the email 5 hours later was a disclaimer, a statement saying that while I'm welcome to create my own posts, they will not be supported, and then a link to a couple sales brochures. Is there any other literature out besides what is available from my reseller? Cause I don't want to spend a month going through this song and dance only to have them eventually offer to sell me a .pdf file. ------------------- Just got another email from them with the files. Yay. Educated guesswork is better than the alternative.

Ah ty, that did it. Thought that was the first thing I tried, but I don't think I tried it without the *. One issue down, many more to go... they had most of this set up at one point, but had all of the machine defs and posts stored on a local HD, that tanked on them a couple years back... so I'm rebuilding all the machine definitions and tweaking the posts for every machine in the shop... luckily we're not busy and I've been getting by hand editing a LOT after post when I get new parts.

Ok, I'll admit, I'm a total noob with this stuff. We dabbled in post editing in school, but that was 5 years ago... if mi1$ > one, [ sav_frc_wcs = force_wcs if sub_level$ > 0, force_wcs = zero if workofs$ <> prv_workofs$ | (force_wcs & toolchng), [ if workofs$ < 6, *"G" 35 "500" else, [ p_wcs = workofs$ - five "G54.1", *p_wcs ] ] force_wcs = sav_frc_wcs !workofs$ ] That is just giving me # 500 in place of the offset, instead of the G#500 I'm looking for.. I know I'm overlooking the simple solution here...

Not yet, don't know if our current license covers post edits, we're still running X8. I've made some headway sorting out other issues myself, but I was wondering if there was any way to get it to post out the # character, since it comments out anything following it on a line...

We use a mori horizontal with a pallet changer, and the location of the two pallets is marginally different but they have the same setup and are used for production jobs. Is there a way to get mastercam to post out G#500 for all offsets rather than G54, G55, etc.? I know this is a kinda jenky way to run it, but the machine is set up as 3+2 axis, program off a single work offset, and just use a template and multiples of G54 to get our locations for B axis rotations. It works fine once I got the template for the stops and center of rotation updated, but I know it far from the best way of doing it. We add this line at the start of all programs for that machine, so #500 is determined by whatever pallet happens to be in the machine. (MORI SEIKI NH5000) (USE #X STOPS) (PALLET CONFIRMATION) #501=#147 #500=[#501+53] (G54 ORIGIN COORDINATES) #5221=-14.375(G54X0) #5222=-24.402(G54Y0) #5223=-23.3743(G54Z0) (G55 ORIGIN COORDINATES) #5241=-14.375(G55X0) #5242=-24.402(G55Y0) #5243=-23.3793(G55Z0) New to the shop, and trying to get the posts set up to be a little more machine friendly and require less editing after posting a file. This is what I need the post to spit out for the first few lines in a toolpath. G190A0 G0G90G#500X-.3264Y1.218B0S2000M3 G43H7Z1.M8 Thanks for any feedback!