Post no longer works

[stenersonmachine]

My post no longer works for manufacturing on fusion 360. 

[j.labdik]

Upload your post so that someone can see what version you're using. Fusion updates faster than posts update, and I've noticed a few posts with functionality missing due to posts not being up to date with the actual software. 

[engineguy]

@stenersonmachine 

Your Post Processor has most likely been overwritten by a Fusion update, you should keep your good working PP either in your Personal Post Library or in the Cloud, if it is in the "Installed Library" then it will be updated to the latest version of that PP, to stop automatic updates of PPs and Machines then open your "Preferences" and turn off the Automatic updates of PPs and Machines, this does not turn off Fusion update 🙂

You should also keep a copy of your good PP in a safe place on your Computer so it doesn`t get changed at Fusion Updates. Meantime try uploading the PP you were using and any notes you may have regarding any modifications.

Double check if you are actually selecting the correct PP, is it not outputting any code or wrong code ???

[j.labdik]

I have a bad feeling this may be an old post that no longer works at all. Recently, I was building a 3+2 post for a machine and noticed that some of the logic is completely different in the post manual. All the way to the point that certain functions arent even used anymore... I don't think anybody really addressed this from Autodesk. We posted the file on the forums and one of the post guys from Autodesk was asking why we used certain custom logic, but it came straight from the Autodesk library with that logic in there. Things are getting a bit weird in post-land these days. 

[beug4133]

I am using pre NCG Haas Processor

[j.labdik]

I hear ya. Are you using the latest version from the autodesk cam post processor library? Or are you using a locally stored version on your computer? 

To simplify whats going on.. Fusion (and every other CAM software out there) uses functions that are defined in sections of the post. Those functions are called certain things for certain reasons. So for example "onRapid" is basically a macro command that's a bunch of logic which is defined in a section of the post. So when onRapid is used as fusion is posting out, logic is executed and translates that command into a line of code that says G0 X3.5 Y4.0 Z1.0. Well, Fusion's last big update rewrote the book almost entirely. So now what used to be one "macro" may be something entirely different. This is super super evident in the multi-axis sections.