14 hours ago, Colin Gilchrist said:

There has been the "ability" to tie a Post to Machine Simulation since about X7. You just had to pay someone who "knows how", and has an agreement with MW, so that they share the money. The customization that is available is pretty amazing. I remember seeing a 6 Axis Gantry that used a big saw cutter for some specialized application. It was fully simulated in the Machine Simulation from ModuleWorks, and the same Post that generated the NC Code from the NCI data, would also write the exact same data to the MWCL file. (move for move). Bottom line was it was successful, and worked for the customer.

Many of the service providers that offer these services are either in Canada or Germany. I do believe that several Resellers from the USA have also been trained in how to tie a Post to the Simulation, but I'm not sure which ones...

For additional axes, they use preprocessor.py written on the python and fille .mps scheme with the axes.

You can write [email protected] and they will tell how it works your dealer, but not to you ....... Why are there no descriptions of these procedures in the documentation

from math import *


class Preprocessor(object):
 
    
    VERSION = 1
    TYPE = "move"
    AXIS = ["X" , "Y" , "Z" , "C" , "B" , "WREAL", "ZREAL" ]  
    
    def ProcessMove(self, environment, operation, move): 
        if move["axisValue"]["Z"] < 30:
            # Move entirely on the ZREAL axis
            move["axisValue"]["ZREAL"] = move["axisValue"]["Z"]
        else:
            # Move 40 in the ZREAL axis, and the remaining in the
            # WREAL axis
            move["axisValue"]["ZREAL"] = 30
            move["axisValue"]["WREAL"] = move["axisValue"]["Z"] - 30

preprocessor = Preprocessor()

Ron you are right, but I would like to have a good simulation in Mastercam (one Cam software).

Thank you, Gentlemen!

On 12.04.2017 at 11:43 PM, JParis said:

What?????

This need for output G code in machine simulation

Is it possible to bring the arc in line 2 , the first column displays the arc when using the linearization (G1)  , the second column displays the comment of the arc (G2, G3) ?

linarc$ = 0

G1 Z0. F10.
G41 D280 X-.25
G3 X.25 I.25 J0.
X-.25 I-.25 J0.
G1 G40 X-.2188

linarc$ = 1

G1 Z0. F10.
G41 D280 X-.25
X-.2481 Y-.0307
X-.2424 Y-.061
X-.2331 Y-.0903
X-.2203 Y-.1183
X-.204 Y-.1444
X-.1848 Y-.1684
X-.1627 Y-.1899
X-.1381 Y-.2084
X-.1114 Y-.2238
X-.0831 Y-.2358
X-.0535 Y-.2442
X-.0231 Y-.2489
X.0077 Y-.2499
X.0383 Y-.247
X.0684 Y-.2405
X.0974 Y-.2302
X.125 Y-.2165
X.1507 Y-.1995
X.174 Y-.1795
X.1948 Y-.1567
X.2126 Y-.1316
X.2271 Y-.1045
X.2382 Y-.0758
X.2457 Y-.0459
X.2495 Y-.0154
Y.0154
X.2457 Y.0459
X.2382 Y.0758
X.2271 Y.1045
X.2126 Y.1316
X.1948 Y.1567
X.174 Y.1795
X.1507 Y.1995
X.125 Y.2165
X.0974 Y.2302
X.0684 Y.2405
X.0383 Y.247
X.0077 Y.2499
X-.0231 Y.2489
X-.0535 Y.2442
X-.0831 Y.2358
X-.1114 Y.2238
X-.1381 Y.2084
X-.1627 Y.1899
X-.1848 Y.1684
X-.204 Y.1444
X-.2203 Y.1183
X-.2331 Y.0903
X-.2424 Y.061
X-.2481 Y.0307
X-.25 Y0.
G40 X-.2188

Like this, showing where the real arc begins

G1 Z0. F10.
G41 D280 X-.25
X-.2481 Y-.0307(G3 X.25 I.25 J0.)
X-.2424 Y-.061
X-.2331 Y-.0903
X-.2203 Y-.1183
X-.204 Y-.1444
X-.1848 Y-.1684
X-.1627 Y-.1899
X-.1381 Y-.2084
X-.1114 Y-.2238
X-.0831 Y-.2358
X-.0535 Y-.2442
X-.0231 Y-.2489
X.0077 Y-.2499
X.0383 Y-.247
X.0684 Y-.2405
X.0974 Y-.2302
X.125 Y-.2165
X.1507 Y-.1995
X.174 Y-.1795
X.1948 Y-.1567
X.2126 Y-.1316
X.2271 Y-.1045
X.2382 Y-.0758
X.2457 Y-.0459
X.2495 Y-.0154
Y.0154       (X-.25 I-.25 J0.)
X.2457 Y.0459
X.2382 Y.0758
X.2271 Y.1045
X.2126 Y.1316
X.1948 Y.1567
X.174 Y.1795
X.1507 Y.1995
X.125 Y.2165
X.0974 Y.2302
X.0684 Y.2405
X.0383 Y.247
X.0077 Y.2499
X-.0231 Y.2489
X-.0535 Y.2442
X-.0831 Y.2358
X-.1114 Y.2238
X-.1381 Y.2084
X-.1627 Y.1899
X-.1848 Y.1684
X-.204 Y.1444
X-.2203 Y.1183
X-.2331 Y.0903
X-.2424 Y.061
X-.2481 Y.0307
X-.25 Y0.
G40 X-.2188

I tried to use redo_proc$, but it display only the first arc

Anyone have ideas to make it better, the display of arcs and cycles of the drilling in the machine simulation ?

Input file with expansion .CL
The file with the extension  .red is used to offset workpiece geometry and position
When you run a machine simulation, you will see - use external post
mcamTools folder used to store the machine tools for simulation with the extension .sim

this example
It supports only wcs - Top

Supports in metric mode
Does not support tool compensation - control

Transformathion -  source operations - disadle posting in selected source operations