From the course: Learning Mastercam for SOLIDWORKS
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Post-processor options
From the course: Learning Mastercam for SOLIDWORKS
Post-processor options
- [Instructor] When you're getting ready to post out the G-Code for your operations, there's a bunch of options we can modify inside of Mastercam. In fact, we can load different post-processors and so on. Let me show you how to do that. So right over here under stock setup, you can see over here I can come click over here, and click on files, and then right over here I have the options of editing the machine or replacing the machine. So currently I have a Fadal 4 Axis VMC, so if I wanted to replace that, I can click over here, and you can see it jumps into the available machines that I have. Notice that's at Public, Public Documents, McamForSW2019, so SOLIDWORKS 2019, CNC_Machines. These are the machine definitions that I have downloaded, and I got these from mastercam.com, okay? And you can too, just go over to Mastercam, download the post for the machine you're using, or call your resaler, get the correct post, and then save these into the CNC_MACHINES as well as the posts. Let me…
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