【正文】 otary indexing or contouring head (A, B or C) 5Axis with Dual Rotary Heads Your post has three linear axes (X, Y and Z) and two rotary indexing or contouring heads (A, B or C). 5axis with Dual Rotary Table Your post has three linear axes (X, Y and Z) and two rotary indexing or contouring tables (A, B or C). 5axis with Rotary Head and Table Your post has three linear axes (X, Y and Z), a rotary indexing, or contouring fourth axis head and a rotary indexing or contouring fifth axis table (A, B or C). Lathe Selecting this option defines your machine as a lathe type. Typically lathes have two linear axes (Cartesian X and Z). The chuck rotates and the tool remains in a turret that moves in the X and Zaxis. In the machine section you can also specify your post as a four axis lathe with a fixed distance between the turrets. Wire EDM Select this option to create or edit a Wire EDM postprocessor. The system provides posts for three mon wire EDM machine tools: Agie, Mitsubishi, and Charmilles. They contain all the G and M codes used to control standard Wire EDM functions. They also contain the basic two and four axis motion. 2 Axis Your post has two linear axes. 4 Axis When you select this option you get basic fouraxis output that you need to customize for your machine. You may select either coordinate or angle output. For coordinate mode, the post will calculate the position on the upper plane where you need to have the wire to achieve the programmed tilt defined by the tool axis. For angles mode you get the basic Agie output. The post calculates the tilt along the direction of motion and the tilt perpendicular to the direction of motion. When you select the Agie control, you get the Agie Q and R angle output. When you select Mitsubishi or Charmiles, you get the U and V output for the upper plane coordinates. Controller You must now select a basic controller type. You can choose a generic controller, a specific controller from the controller library, or a post you have previously created. The specific controllers have nurbs output for the Fanuc, Siemens and Heidenhain mill controls. The choice of controllers is difficult for mill, lathe, or wire edm machine tools. After making all your selections the system uses all the information you have selected to create your post. Changing Postprocessor Kinematics You can start with any existing postprocessor created with Post Builder and change the kinematics or the inch/metric setting through the following process: a new post. the new inch or metric setting. the new kinematics setting. the user option on the controller to browse for the post you want to change. the post. Your new post now has all of the custom mands and edits from your original post, but with new kinematics and/or inch/metric settings. You may need to add rotary words to the motion blocks when making a four or five axis post from a three axis post. To do this follow the steps below: to Program amp。 Tool Path→Program→Motion. In this dialog you may need to change the Linear Move and Rapid Move blocks. To do this, follow the steps below: on the Linear Move, or Rapid Move blue event marker. the dialog that displays, select the down arrow next to the drop down menu. the drop down menu select fourth_axis. and hold the Add Word button until a block displays. the block over the block until a white outline appears, than release the mouse. If you have a four axis post you may only need to add the fourth_axis word. If you have a five axis post you may need to add both the fourth_axis and fifth_axis. to Program amp。 Tool Path→Program→Canned Cycles and select the Common Parameters event marker. Add the fourth_axis word in the same manner as the Linear