Im planning on purchasing a Haas TL-1 lathe and Mastercam. Ive noticed on the mastercam demo's that when backplotting they always show the tools from the back side of the lathe. The TL-1 lathe is setup like a manual lathe where the tools are cutting from the front. Is it possible in Mastercam to show the tools cutting from the front when backplotting? Mark.

Im currently using the MPA2100E.pst for a PC2100 control. I keep getting an error on the machine when the program starts to do a helix move. I notice the mpmaster.pst has some info in it concerning this. Do I just use the mpmaster.pst instead of the MPA2100E.pst? or do I need to copy some info from mpmaster.pst and paste it into the MPA2100E? Im not sure how to go about this. Thanks for your help.

You may be right. I do notice that all the digits on the control for X, Y, and Z are to 5 place decimal accuracy, and the post is outputting to 4 places. I wonder why my control is showing 5 places after the decimal? I cant machine that close. Mark

Is there more than one post processor for the Acramatic PC2100 control? I cant seem to make the only one that comes with MasterCam work. It will post out fine, but when I run the program on the machine I get an error message at a arc move. G2 or G3. thank you. Mark