Re: Mastercam post pro

Owen:

In TurboCNC you won't get prompted for toolchange unless use the
M06 word:

M06 T20 ; Stop and change to offset 20

Using the tool word by itself, or on a line with other stuff just
changes the offset without prompting:

G01 X1.234 T3 F10 ; Change to offset 3 and move

Also, in dry-verify, M00/01/06/72/73 and probably a few others
won't pop up prompts if the syntax is OK, but the offsets are
changing to validate the rest of the code.

Tool offsets are stored internally, so if your code calls out H and
D words they'll be ignored.

Some folks (myself included) use TurboCNC with gang tooling on
lathes, so it's kind of silly to keep dismissing prompts every time
the offset changes for the next tool if we don't have to.

Dave Kowalczyk
Everett WA
TurboCNC -->http://www.dakeng.com/turbo.htm

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Owen Lloyd" <sbw@c...> wrote:
> I've run Gcode generated by Mastercam in TurboCNC [simulation mode]
and have
> not been asked for tool changes. The job contained 10 different
operations
> with 7 tools -- so I'd expect that many tool changes.
> Anyone know what I'm over looking?
> Thanks in advance.
> owen