ArtCam Pro Post Processor?

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dreamfactory
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ArtCam Pro Post Processor?

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I'm waiting for my first Shark Pro to arrive on Friday. In the meantime I'm trying to figure out how best to generate toolpaths for it. I use ArtCam Pro and MasterCam for my large CNC machines and I'm hoping I can use toolpaths generated by ArtCam on the Shark but I don't see any mention of it anywhere. Does anyone here know if there is a resource laying out exactly what the Shark wants to see as far as GCode headers and command formats? I've written my own ArtCam posts for other machines including 4th axis indexing so I'm guessing this shouldn't be too difficult but I'm hoping to get lucky and find out that one of the standard posts like the one for Mach 3 will work.

Tim Owens
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Re: ArtCam Pro Post Processor?

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The Gcode that works with the Pro Plus needs to be as follows for the CNC Shark to see it.
G90
G20
F90.0
G64 P.1
S 2000
M03
...
...
G00 X0.0000 Y0.0054 Z0.1181 (standard gocode format)
...
...
M02 (this must be the last line)

Tim

dreamfactory
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Re: ArtCam Pro Post Processor?

Post by dreamfactory »

Thanks Tim, that's exactly what I was looking for. One more question, I'm getting the regular Pro, not the Pro Plus, would this make a difference?

Tim Owens
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Re: ArtCam Pro Post Processor?

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S 2000
M03
are needed to turn on the spindle for the pro plus but it wont hurt if it is there.
That is about it.
Thanks
Tim

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