artcam and mach2

[flipper]

Hello everybody,
How does a postprocessor work in artcam? There is a post processor in artcam for .NC, but how do i use this.
Thnx.

[Stepper Monkey]

Drop it in the folder with the other ArtCam post-processor files (I think its named PostP), restart Artcam, and the new options should then be selectable - when you go to save your next toolpath it should be on the list. I believe there are actually two post processors for Mach - inch and metric.

How the g-code functions then with your controller and hardware setup, who can say, but that is how to get the processor installed and the g-code generated.

I use Mach3 myself, but do not use the Mach post-processor - Mach nicely eats one of my other machines formats as well, and so I only use one format for portabilities sake between them.

[TechGraphix]

Hello everybody,
How does a postprocessor work in artcam? There is a post processor in artcam for .NC, but how do i use this.
Thnx.

Just look in the postp files how they are build up.. It's plain text..
I wrote several postprocessors for ArtCam for different machines and interfacing programs like WinNC, EaziCNc.
You only have to know what your CNC talks..

Kees

[antsals]

I have found a post from you 12 months ago answering someone about artcam and a postprocessor. I have been trying to get hold of a post processor for feature cam which will intergrate into eazicnc?

[TechGraphix]

Send me your mailaddress and i will send you my postprocessor.
Place it in the artcam/postp folder and you will have your G-Codes generated for EaziCNC

K36914@hotmail.com

Kees