NC Post vs NC Gpost

[lococnc]

I am trying to reverse-engineer a manufacturing model at a company that used to work (maybe as long as 7 years ago), it appears it last worked in 2000i as the manufacturing model (it seems) is calling for ncp210q.exe. As far as I can tell this was before PTC integrated the post processor. Was there a point at which they changed this and informed customers how to deal with failing generation of the G-code? Or should it still work as long as I have workcells and everything else configured correctly? I have only used the Prismatic and Multi-Surface milling starting in WF2 so I am not familiar with some of the change history of their NC packages. This is using NC Sheetmetal.

Also, is it WF4 or WF5 that they put the manufacturing info in the .asm file?
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[DanielSantos]

Can help too much with the Legacy PP issue... sorry...

"Also, is it WF4 or WF5 that they put the manufacturing info in the .asm file? "

WF5 does that. In fact the MFG file in previous releases stored only metadata, such as tool manager tooling, parameters, workcell details, etc. The core was in the.ASM file, since material removal, MFG Geometry and toolpaths are basicaly assembly features by design. Material removal for example is a assembly cut feature. 🙂

HTH,

Regards,

Daniel Santos - CAM Support

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