NC file naming

[Anonymous]

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?

[engineguy · Accepted solution]

@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

[Anonymous]

@engineguy  Brilliant, thanks for your help 🙂

[seth.madore]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[ifuASTJY]

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!