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NC file naming

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:28:09 GMT

Apologies if this is a very basic question but I'm new to F360.

When saving a cam file, Fusion automatically comes up with a number e.g. 1001. Instead of this, can I simply rename it in appropriate text rather than in numbers?

Re: NC file naming

engineguy — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:53:54 GMT

@Anonymous

Yes you can, in Setup under the "Post Processor" tab there is a box labeled Program Name/Number, just type in there the number or name and it will be posted out at the beginning of your code in brackets.

See image below.

Regards

Rob

Re: NC file naming

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:56:22 GMT

@engineguy Brilliant, thanks for your help 🙂

Re: NC file naming

seth.madore — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:51:48 GMT

Just to clarify for anyone else coming into this thread;

There are many post processors that will reject anything but a 4 digit number in the top box, while accepting anything in the bottom. To name your file something other then the 4 digit will take a post edit. It's not cumbersome, just flipping some things around and deleting some warning messages

Re: NC file naming

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:58:44 GMT

Thanks for this Seth.

I use Carbide Motion with my Shapeoko 3 and luckily it reads text files so
I can name the nc file anything I want. Really useful I find.

Re: NC file naming

ifuASTJY — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 10:26:42 GMT

Hi,

Can you "flip" those things around for the general Fanuc pp to be able to post my NC file name with alphanumerical characters?

Thanks!