I guess I'm just going to have to modify a newer version in my spare time. Thanks for the insight, appreciate it.

Yes, Opti-Pro is our re-seller. They have been good to us, I'm not trying to imply they aren't but they (rightfully so) wanted money for a post for a brand new multi-axis lathe nobody else bought yet that we purchased about a year ago therefore I had no choice but 1- Hand edit a LOT of code for every program, 2-Fight with management until they forked over the cash for a post 3-Edit the post myself. I decided to edit the post myself and have got it down pretty good. So I fixed the posts for our other machines myself as well and up to this point every one of those other machines posts perfect code EXCEPT this retract issue, so I hopped on here to see if maybe somebody else might have dealt with this issue and here we are LOL. I didn't get on here to start pissing matches or to waste anybody's time. I specifically left out turning Ref points on because I didn't want someone to open up the file and think maybe it was jut a glitch or something as I had stated previously even when turning them on it's ignored. I was just hoping somebody on here had dealt with this issue and knew where it might be in the post. That's all.

Um, I don't recall saying I expected the posts to be perfect. I was completely unaware new posts came with the new software as I wasn't told about it at the seminar or by our re-seller. Add to that the 2002 post is actually closer to what I needed save for not posting DOC and pulloff values and it would probably have taken me longer to edit the post you referenced than the 2002 post anyways. I kind of inherited a little bit of a mess without much to go on and as we all know full well re-sellers are rather not so helpful and the first thing they do is hold out their hand looking for bills. Thanks, I think.

Has anybody tried using the Ref points? Because as I stated above^^^ it is ignored and it is not posted.

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Are you looking for an actual MCAM file?

I'm not sure. AFAIK this is a stock, basic MCAM post that came with the software 100 years ago. The only thing I have to compare the post with is the Generic_Fanuc 4X MT_Lathe post that DOES output the code I need but that's an apple to orange comparison.

Thank you for the response, however for whatever reason on a canned cycle only the Ref Points are ignored and only at the END of the cycle. This is what's posted: G50 S1500 G96 T0606 S425 M03 G00 X1.625 Z.105 M08 G71 P30 Q40 U-.03 W.005 D.1 F.008 N30 G00 X3.6174 G01 Z-.0183 X3.5474 Z-.0533 Z-.475 N40 X1.625 M09 G00 G28 U0. W0. T0600 M01 This is what I would like to have posted: G50 S1500 G96 T0606 S425 M03 G00 X1.625 Z.105 M08 G71 P30 Q40 U-.03 W.005 D.1 F.008 N30 G00 X3.6174 G01 Z-.0183 X3.5474 Z-.0533 Z-.475 N40 X1.625 G00 Z.105 ( <~~~~ THIS ) M09 G00 G28 U0. W0. T0600 M01

Hello all. After years of getting burned by our posts, I have finally got them down to posting near perfect code I just need one last thing, posting a retract to initial approach on a G71 Canned cycle. It would be stellar if I could get it to post this on an ID turning cycle only. I'm not going to lie, I'm a COMPLETE NOOB and it's taken me about a week (working on them whenever I get "free time") but I'm comfortable editing the posts now as I have multiple backups as well. If anybody could point me in a decent direction it would be greatly appreciated. Posts are Generic MPL_HAAS and Generic Fanuc 4X MT_Lathe.