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whats the best way to get mastercam to output a toolpath as a subprogram? im running into some difficulties trying to figure out whats best,
i personally envision a misc interger/real post mod,
for example i have a toolpath group i want to post, there are 10 toolpaths in this particular group, 4 of them are too large to fit in the machines memory,
i go to the said tool paths i enter a value in misc interger\real (####) this would be an indication to the post that I want this tool path to output as a sub,
it outputs the main program with m98 p### as indicated by misc real\integrer in the correct sequence and i also get my subs as separate files named O### so i can load them onto the cf card and then load the main program onto the cnc
seems simple enough, but modifying posts is not my strong point,(i can do simple stuff, or if someone posts up thier logic i can usually figure it out)
im not really into cut/paste programs because its error prone and time consuming if your tweaking a program
ive looked thru mc to see if there was a better way to output subs but i can only find them thru the transform ops and drill cycles, neither of which apply to my situation
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