Yes Greg, what you just said is correct. Create a new toolplane for back and bottom but you can use the original front as X positive goes the same direction as the top plane. It will index to the correct location. The angle comes from the relationship of the geometry to the toolplane. When you use a new toolplane it will spit out a new A value, If you change the WCS you will end up with no A values output to the post so you do not want to do that.

forgot to tag this on... Here is what "my post" output... N5 T1 M06 ( 3/8 CUSTOM ) N6 G00 G90 G55 C0. N7 M185 <-- still needs work N8 G00 X70.6358 Y-45.627 S4980 M03 N9 G43 H1 Z35. N10 Z30.1997 C47.252 B90. N11 G01 X69.957 Y-46.3614 F40. N12 Z28.6997 N13 G00 X70.6358 Y-45.627 N14 Z35. B0.

Ok, next issue... on block 8 of the needed output it outputs the initial C position before it calls the tool offset so it can prewind... N5 T1 M06 (3/8 CUSTOM) N6 M31 (B-AXIS UNLOCK) N7 M33 (C-AXIS UNLOCK) N8 G00 G90 G55 C47.252 N9 M185 N10 G00 X70.6358 Y-45.627 S4980 M03 N11 G43.4 H1 Z35. N12 G00 B0. N13 M34 (C-AXIS LOCK) N14 Z30.1997 B90. N15 M32 (B-AXIS LOCK) N16 G94 G01 G41.2 D1 X69.957 Y-46.3614 F40. N17 Z28.6997 N18 G00 G40 X70.6358 Y-45.627 N19 M31 (B-AXIS UNLOCK) N20 Z35. B0. In my post it puts the initial c position after the tool offset is called, I had the post output the C in the same place as I need it but at that point since nothing has moved, it outputs a C0. How do I have it look ahead and pull that C value before it moves to the initial x and y positions?

GOT IT!!! I had to add an "if sof" in front of it so that it wouldnt happen on every tool change and that fixed it.

would there be a way to format it so that it would look at the tool number and only output the M185 if it were the 1st time the tool was called? That way I wouldnt have to worry about 14 different programmers always remembering to set mr5 to 1?

would there be a way to format it so that it would look at the tool number and only output the M185 if it were the 1st time the tool was called? That way I wouldnt have to worry about 14 different programmers always remembering to set mi5 to 1?

That is what i tried yesterday, but then i found out what the m185 is, it turns on the electric spindle unit prior to the m3 code. It only needs to be done at the beginning of the file not at each tool change which is what happened with the changes i made yesterday. I will compare what you posted above and see if I added the m185 line in the correct spot. Here is what "my post" output... N5 T1 M06 ( 3/8 CUSTOM ) N6 G00 G90 G55 C0. N7 M185 <-- still needs work N8 G00 X70.6358 Y-45.627 S4980 M03 N9 G43 H1 Z35. N10 Z30.1997 C47.252 B90. N11 G01 X69.957 Y-46.3614 F40. N12 Z28.6997 N13 G00 X70.6358 Y-45.627 N14 Z35. B0.

the M185 is from a current program for the machine that I am trying to get generic post output to match. This is from a working program for the CMS... N5 T1 M06 (3/8 CUSTOM) N6 M31 (B-AXIS UNLOCK) N7 M33 (C-AXIS UNLOCK) N8 G00 G90 G55 C47.252 N9 M185 N10 G00 X70.6358 Y-45.627 S4980 M03 N11 G43.4 H1 Z35. N12 G00 B0. N13 M34 (C-AXIS LOCK) N14 Z30.1997 B90. N15 M32 (B-AXIS LOCK) N16 G94 G01 G41.2 D1 X69.957 Y-46.3614 F40. N17 Z28.6997 N18 G00 G40 X70.6358 Y-45.627 N19 M31 (B-AXIS UNLOCK) N20 Z35. B0. As for the post it is the generic 5axis post that came with Mastercam. I will look at the machine def to see if I can turn on clamping, I just assumed that since a working post spit out the code using the same machine def as what I am proving my newer version on that it wouldnt be a MD issue. I will look anyhow. Thanks

one for the propeller heads (my propeller is broken)... I am trying to adjust the generic 5 axis post to work for one of our machines but have a few problems. Any help would be appreciated. I am not sure if this is stuff that I just havent found yet or that it is unfindable because it is in the encrypted portion of the post. 1) What does the M185 code do (CMS 5 axis router)? 2) I have enabled clamping but am getting no lock or unlock codes in the program Thanks for any help, Robert

The correct way to do it is non associative boolean. That will allow you to choose whether or not you want to keep both the Tool and Target bodies. Robert Winters

AHHH I copied the file name from your post and didnt notice you were using the metric config file! I opened mcamx.config and i was able to delete the custom colors! Thanks Griveous74! Robert Winters

there are no custom colors under the COlors section in X2

Hardmill, I did the search last night. Most of them were talking about X not X2

when I hit the reload button in the color menu in the status bar, nothing happens and there is not a reload button under config. I tried clicking the reload, opening config, save as, exit Mastercam, Reload mastercam. Nothing Doing! Any Mastercam guys know how I can reverse this? I was going to reload my config file from a Zip2Go that I have but it was created in X not X2. I am not sure what changes I have made since that last config file, so I will use it as a last resort.

That did not fix the problem... I think it has changed from X to X2

Ok I found Geometry Attributes, But no reset button

I am in X2 Where can i get the Geometry Attributes?

Does anyone know how to reverse this chook? I had done it in the past I thought. Cant remember how it was done.. Or perhaps I was dreaming. Robert Winters Programmer Upland Fab Inc.

yeah, I saw that right after my last post! Thanks anyway G-code. Robert

nevermind... looks like the update post reset quite a few parameters in my post and control definition. Not sure why but they are fixed now. Looks like it had set max spindle speed in the post to 0.

Ok, may seem like a rookie question, but... Ever since updating my post and defs to X2... mastercam posts out an S0 instead of the input spindle speed. It outputs and M3 but ignores the spindle speed. Anyone seen this? Robert Winters Programmer Upland Fab Inc.

great, thank you! I just unchecked output seq no and turned the tseqno=0 to tseqno=2 and it looks just like what we post for our lathes using the fanuc o/t controls.

John... are you talking about a mill or lathe?

let me rephrase that... the default "mpmaster" machine definition generates N words and not end of blocks. I said it was the post. The machine def overwrites the post in that area anyway. I know how to change it, i just want to make sure that I should.

Does anyone know... on our lathes we dont use N words but have an end of block at each line... would there be any reason a mill would be different? All of the generic fanuc posts generate N words but no end of block.