Posthaste Question

[microdot]

I’m trying to create a Posthaste post for a Siemens 810L (lathe) control. I have 2 questions. Posthaste doesn’t seem to recognize drilling. Not only will it no put out Canned (G81, or G84), but it won’t even write it long hand. All I get is one line after the tool change (which I finally got right) which contains just: G0 X0 Z0. No correct feed point, no feed no depth. In posthaste I have their line for drill cycle:

Drill
G81 X[H] Z[D] R[VClear] F[FRate]
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FWIW Siemens uses D for the tool offset. I don’t know if this is a problem.

Question 2,
Siemens calls subroutines with the letter L. As in L97 for threading with R20-R32 as the thread parameters. Anyone have any idea how I write this into Post Haste?

Thanks.

Peter-

[Master_CNC]

What are you using for a CAM system that they don't have a post processor for your machine?

[microdot]

Gibbscam. And I have 8 posts that my reseller sold me along time ago. Not one of them is exactly right so i decided to see if I could do better with Posthaste.

[Paul-PostHaste]

Hi, Microdot -

(Replying to your 'PostHaste drilling woes' message of 11/12/2007)

There was a bug in one release of PostHaste that prevented output of LATHE drilling ...

We have a copy of the corrected one (Posthaste.DLL) that works properly.

If you CALL ME (805-583-3460), I'll be glad to send it to you.
(I'll help you sort out the subs / threading issues too.)

Cheers -

Paul