Re: Post Processor

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Ray Henry <rehenry@u...> wrote:

>
> Seems to me that there is a bit of a stretch here concerning the
> differences between a "real" post processor and a "config" file
>driven
> cam. I'm curious to know what a post can do that a config can't?
>Uh,
> other than cost you a bunch of cash!

Ray,
See post # 40858 for a reply to this. A post shouldn't cost you a lot
of cash. it should be in the program to do this.

> Beyond that -- and it may well be my ignorance of the nuances here -
>- it
> seems to me that a lot of us could write a post-post processor
>using any
> common language or macro intensive package that would read the
>output of
> about any reasonable CAM post or config and submit it to a few
>rules that
> would modify it to a specific device or variant of rs274.
>
> Ray
>

That is exactly what a post is. If you do this then you have wrote
your own post.
Basically a post works on the completed file.
A config file works on each operation as it's produced.

John S.