Recently got a 2001 Bport Ezpath III lathe. Works great but Im not a program at the machine guy. Ive got 4 posts from the gibbs library for ezpath. Ive heard from others that these posts work Ok.

I think Bport changed something on the latest models of their controls. Maybe because they only wanted EZCam posts to work?

So the posts do not work with my machine. It requires output that has an X and a Z move in every line, + feed if its G1. Otherwise it crashes the control with a GP error!! PGM files load and run fine.

Gcode files with the right syntax load and run fine.

In any case fired up Compost 3 and with the help of a programmer buddy was able to change the approach lines to show X and Z on same line. Wondering if theres a global command to do this?

Heres the command we used. The SeqC ' G0 X' CurrentX# ZSPC EOL is what we added.

IF ApproachFace?
SeqC StockOnNoCan XSPC EOL
SeqC StockOff ZOpCPC EOL
StockOnNoCan
IF NotEqual? CycleStartZ# ZOpCP#
SeqC FeedNoCan ZSPC FeedRateNoCan EOL
END
ELSE { ODApproach/IDApproach }
SeqC ' G0 X' CurrentX# ZSPC EOL
SeqC StockOnNoCan ZSPC EOL


Heres a sample of good code:

N10 T1/01/ M6 ' CHANGE TO TOOL # 1
N11 S1000 M3 ' SET RPM TO 1000
N12 G0 X1.6375 Z0.0688
N14 G1 X1.0 Z0.0688 F0.015
N14 G1 X1.0 Z-1.75 F0.015
N16 G1 X1.4375 Z-1.75 F0.015
N17 G2 X1.5 Z-1.7813 I1.4375 K-1.7813
N18 G1 X1.5 Z-3.0313 F0.015
N19 G0 X1.6375 Z0.1
N20 G0 X1.0 Z0.1 T1/01/


Heres what the unmodified gibbs post outputs. (different but similar part)

N0001 T08/08 M6 'TOOL CHANGE ID=8
N0006 M11
N0011 G38 S900
N0016 G37 S125 'FORWARD RPM = 900
N0021 G90 G0 X1.3581 Z.4
N0026 Z0
N0031 X.9
N0036 G1 X.2676 F.002
N0041 G2 X.3128 Z-.0094 I.2676 K-.032
N0046 G1 X.4543 Z-.0801
N0051 G2 X.473 Z-.1027 I.409 K-.1027

Any suggestions would be appreciated!!

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