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Howdy everyone. Recently just began converting our shop from X5 & X6 to 2018. We are mainly equipped with Haas including a Mori and Roku Verticals + Mitsubishi Wire & Sinker machines. There is 4x and some times 5x work done. When it comes to making changes in a Control Definition for the Generic Haas posts in 2018, do all of the options and settings that can be manipulated actually make changes or set flags and parameters in how the post should be outputting code? I have read through lots of Colin's info on how everything interrelates and best practices, but I seem to notice that certain changes made in either the MD or CD don't have any effect on how the code gets posted while others do. If I hand edit the post, it behaves the way I want it....most of the time. Some of the modifiable items in the MD & CD seem to work, and others don't. I end up manually making the changes in the post directly, but I noticed in the 2018 Haas 4x or 5x post that it specifically warned to not make changes directly in the post and to use the CD & MD. Has this been addressed elsewhere on the forum? If I am not imagining this, does this go back in previous versions? I started in school on X7, and have used professionally x5 through x9. For the MD and CD, if some options do work and others don't, does there exist any kind of list of options to ignore in the MD or CD (I understand that you should have the MD correct for your machine for verify, simulation, etc). Am I making sense?
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