Solidcam to EMC2 post processor

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Did you also copy Fanuc5a.PRP and Fanuc5a.vmid files?
I'm not sure if it solves the problem, but anyway, they are in my gpptool directory.
I attach my "set", check if is works or not.
Be careful, in Fanuc5a.vmid I set the max spindle speed to 18000 rpm (because of my machine goes up to that value), you should set it down to your hardware's maximum.
Adam

Editining: I don't know why, but my attachment doesn't appear, sorry... I try it again later.

This time try to attach as .zip... let's see

Adam ,
attach files as a zip archive should work dependant on file size
if you have problems attaching , send it to me directly and i'll make sure it makes it

Lukas,
your problem I think relates to perhaps typo's , you say Dely etc it should be Delay colent should be coolent

Thanks!

So, it worked as a .zip... find my files in my previous post!

Good luck!
Adam

cncbasher wrote:

Adam ,
attach files as a zip archive should work dependant on file size
if you have problems attaching , send it to me directly and i'll make sure it makes it

Lukas,
your problem I think relates to perhaps typo's , you say Dely etc it should be Delay colent should be coolent

Lukas ,
let me know what you find , I don't at the moment have solidcam 2013 installed , so cant check directly , but I will be upgrading in the next day or so
once I have my databases backed up . so any problems i'll take a look at

Lukas,

When I had trouble with making this stuff work, I also faced to these variable-error massages.
Especially when I chose Fanuc (not the Fanuc5a) machine and tried to set a previous version of postprocessor-file (downloaded also from this forum).
These files (I attached) solved the problem for me, hope that they also work in SolidCAM 2013...

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The variables were renamed in the new versions till 2011 .

mist_coolant was renamed to mach_mist_coolant
flood_collant was renamed to mach_flood_coolant

and so on ..

The LINUXCNC.GPP post processor file works well in SolidCAM 2013 for me.

However, be aware that the G43 command has been commented out in it, so G code created with this will not carry out tool length compensation. If you don't carry out any tool changes in a given job you won't notice, but when you do change to a tool with a different length you may well suffer a tool crash as I did yesterday.

It serves me right for not checking my code properly before running it, but just a word of warning for others who may want to use this file.

The relevant lines are numbers 399 & 400 as shown below:

;gcode = 43
;{nb, 'G'gcode, ' H'tool_number, ' D'(tool_number+30), ' '}

Remove the leading ; to re-enable the lines. I also think that the D parameter is not supported in G43 for LinuxCNC, so I removed that part from the second line.

Ben