From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress
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Post processor options
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress
Post processor options
- [Instructor] A post processor is really a translator from what you see here on the screen to G-code for whatever machine you happen to be using. And there's, literally, thousands of different styles or models of machines out there. So you have to have a post for each one or each style of those machines. In fact, the same manufacturer of a machine might have multiple types of posts for the different styles or even age of the machine you'll be working with. Same thing with like 3-axis machines, 4-axis machines, 5-axis machines and beyond. You need a special post for each one of those. Now HSM does give us a pretty good library of posts already. So if we want to jump in there, go over here to select these operations here, click on post process and right up here we have a bunch of different options. We can look at which folder we're looking in, right so I can click on this one over here, open that up and I can look in the post folder or I can select a brand new post folder if I had one.…
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