Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Post Processor

Hi Jason:
The standard way for all the guys I know is to swipe a premade post and
diddle it by trial and error until you get it to output the correct code for
your machine.
Sometimes you can luck out and pull a useable post off the net...that's what
I did for my Haas.
MasterScam provides a bunch of workable posts that will run many of the
standard controllers out there.
For example, if your controller uses a variant of Fanuc you are in luck.
You REALLY have to watch it though: some of these posts do VERY WEIRD
THINGS!!!
The stock MasterScam Haas post takes tool#2, puts it exactly where tool#1
left off, and then rapids to the start point of the code for tool #2.
Scared me right out of my gonchies the first time it did it to me, and
snapped a 1/4" ballcutter off against the side of the job.
That's when I started trolling the net for a better post, and found a
simplified educational one that has been rock solid so far (touch wood!!!)
It really rots my socks though, that the MasterScam boys are making post
writing a proprietary secret and scamming the working guy this way.
It IS a great CAM program though, so I swallow my pride and work with it.
Cheers

Marcus

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Cox" <sinergy@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Post Processor


> Doug,
>
> I have access to Mastercam v8, is it possible for me to make my own post
> processor? or is there no other choice but to get it done by a rep?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason Cox.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Doug Harrison <prototype@...>
> To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 10:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Post Processor
>
>
> > 8/14/02 6:06:42 PM, "stevenson_engineers" <machines@...> wrote:
> >
> > >Normally they are user configuarble so you can get them to output the
> exact code needed.
> > >
> >
> > Two notable exceptions to this are Mastercam and Surfcam. Beginning
with
> Ver.5, Mastercam began omitting crucial
> > information from their post documentation. They stopped shipping the
post
> manual at Ver.6, though you could get it for
> > asking. I did and found it a farse. With the release of Ver.7 they
were
> telling customers that the regional reps were now
> > handling post development.
> >
> > A few months ago the local Surfcam rep told me that post processor
> development was a fee service. He was also boasting
> > about the new universal post he had just developed, only $1000. The
post
> was universal in that he (and he alone) could
> > configure it to nearly any machine in a matter of minutes - for another
> thousand bucks.
> >
> > These programs can be effectively made obsolete when the developers
decide
> to stop supporting the version you purchase.
> > Your option is to pay the annual support fee (one of my clients pays
$950)
> to assure automatic upgrades. The support fee
> > does not include post development. And for some reason, new versions
need
> new posts. Imagine that.
> >
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