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bhorman1-Visitor
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March 2, 2016
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File extensions - ".cnc"

  • March 2, 2016
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Hi All,

I am fairly new to the Pro-E software. I've just generate a mini program to test but I am not familiar with how to output it to the machine.

There are post processors already existent that were made from the previous programmer but I am not sure which one to select.

I am also trying to understand the file extensions following. By default Pro-E will generate a ".ncl" file but how can you generate a file with a ".cnc" file extension.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.


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BenLoosli23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
March 2, 2016

Most posts have the file type naming of the output file as a setting.

The .ncl file is just the cutter path file from Creo which is submitted to the post to generate the machine code. Old APT programmers called that the CL-file.

Mahesh_Sharma
Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
March 4, 2016

Brendon,

By default Creo will save CL data to file with extension .ncl, if you would like to get the file in .cnc format set the config option ncl_file_extension as cnc

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