Change M- code in post?

[Stebedeff]

Hello all,

I have a PUMA Lathe with "Live tooling" and Mastercam posts an M52 instead of M33 for live tool spindle start. How do I change this in Control Definition Manager if I even have to change it there???

I have a couple more of these isues with other machines. So it would be GREAT if I get to change some stuff. Like putting a Block number only at the beginning of a new operation and an M01 between operations.

Thanks to all

[Boots]

That's a post issue. You will need to Modify the post to do those things for you. You can use an text editor to edit your post. Just don't use NOTE PAD. Modify to put M01 and Block number after every tool change. Then you can run your Optional Stop feature. or search to the next operation using the Block number.

[g-codeguy]

Look here and make necessary changes.

# Generate string for spindle, mill
sm52 M34 # Spindle reverse - no coolant
sm55 M35 # Spindle off - no coolant
sm51 M33 # Spindle forward - no coolant
sm54 M34 # Spindle reverse - coolant
sm55c M35 # Spindle off - coolant
sm53 M33 # Spindle forward - coolant
spindle_m #Target for string

fstrsel sm52 g_spdir spindle_m 6 -1

This is for a Daewoo 200MS. No separate codes for with/without coolant.

HTH

[yoshi900]

Any reason why we shouldn't use notepad? what other text editor program can we use? MSWord? Wordpad?

[cnc-king]

Originally Posted by yoshi900 Any reason why we shouldn't use notepad? what other text editor program can we use? MSWord? Wordpad?

I have found Textpad to be a very good text editor

[cadcam]

For starters alwas make a backup before attempting to make post modes.
Next just use the editors that came with Mastercam . (ex Mastercam editor or the Cimco editor)