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  1. I used FBM once for 5 axis drilling and tapping 110 holes each on a different vector so for center drilling, tap drilling, and tapping that's 330 different selections of the same size holes. You have to fill in all the values asked for in the tools and other sections before I could make it work. But once the blanks were all filled in with feeds and speeds and tool depths and vectors of the right length etc, it worked very well. It cut and tapped all the holes correctly in about 8 minutes from regen to NC code and I was using X7 I think. No way to do it that fast any other way. There was a left and right side parts too. I've never tried milling with it but it worked for that particular job.
  2. After a G94 line the next line has a G93 and an A axis move. That line and everyone after have a Fxxx feed rate line. I have now changed the rot_type :0 to a 2 and will try it again. Another line I changed from 0 to 2 is ipr_type :0 #Feedrate for rotary, 0=UPM 1=DPM, 2=inverse. If I should change it back let me know but that change seemed logical.
  3. Ok it's not working quite right yet. The post is giving a G93 call and a Fxx number on every line. A and X axis are moving at the same time but the rotary head moves to the A call out then all the way around to the next A call then all the way around to the next A etc. Effectively a 362° move that should be a 2° move. What causes this to happen?
  4. Thanks Alex, I had the MD set just like that except for the feed rate in minutes. And now it works.
  5. After reading up on inverse time feed rates I remember now that after a G93 call there is a F callout on every line. I have made some changes to the mpmaster.pst file and I'm getting inverse time feeds but not on every line and I'm not getting the G93 either. What do I change to make this work?
  6. I'm at a new job and they have a Fadal 6030 with a rotary table set along X axis and plugged into the control. They have been running parts using it as an indexer, but they don't know of it will run inverse time code as in a full simultaneous 4 axis machine. We have tried to send it a program with inverse time feed rate, but it errors out. I don't have enough experience with Fadals to know if there is a setting in the control to allow use of inverse time feeds. Is there a setting in the control or maybe in the post that can be changed to get this to work?
  7. The solution to another problem I was having, solved this one too. The files I was posting didn't all have the same nc filename. Correcting that cured this problem too.
  8. Thanks Jeff, that did the trick and solved another issue I was having with adding text to my files.
  9. I've had this problem years ago and cant remember how it got solved. In MC 2018 have a mill file with several parts and each part has it's own T and C planes not used by the other parts. There are a dozen ops for two larger parts, some drilling, some 2D contour, and some flowline surface paths. When I check all the ops and hit the G1 command to post the part I get 2 separate .NC files on both of the larger parts. Ops in each are not split by mill or drill, not in order, but are renamed -1 and -2 by Mastercam or the post processor. Parts with fewer ops post as they should, a single .NC file. Using an mpmaster.pst
  10. The post seems to be a mpmaster.pst with the revision log mostly by IHS. We use this same post on most of our machines, Fadals mostly, Awea VP2012 and a Mazak. I've tried it again and once it worked correctly and in my zip2go example it didn't output the note at all. 353A4231-2---REF.ZIP
  11. I want to put notes in with the code but not manually in code expert. In 2D tool paths at the bottom there is a manual entry selection (tool path) that I can put notes in to insert in the code where needed. Problem is it doesn't go where I put it. For example I may put it after the 2nd or 3rd operation but in the .NC file it appears on the first line, the N100 line. How can I make it show up where I need it?
  12. Thanks for that tip gcode. You have been one of the most helpful members of this forum for quite a long time. I appreciate your response.
  13. I haven't posted here in a long time. Glad to see familiar names still around. I'm still getting my work from Catia drivers. When I was machining friction stir weld tools, I found arc centers off the tool centerline constantly. Came down to the method used to create the tool and probably tolerance settings. Mastercam dealer had 2 Catia converters and neither of them worked as well as STEP or .igs conversion for me. Always hated that end lines often don't meet and arcs are 2 splines. At this new job we convert using Solidworks. Been reading page after page in this thread. I was using X9 daily until I was politicaly incorrect to the boss. Now I'm not running machines anymore, just programming only and trying to figure out where the commands I used so much are located in MC 2018. I'm so happy that this forum still exists and you all are posting here. Glad to be back.
  14. I had X5 through X8 installed. I removed X5 to make room on hard drive for Catia R23. Afterward the icon in Windows explorer no longer showed the last saved .jpg of each file. Instead it just shows X8 or whatever version the file was last saved in. This happen to anyone else?
  15. Nope, thats not it. Also thumbnails that were created in any MCX version that once were viewable are now just rectangular box with X7 or whatever version I was using at the time.

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