The postprocessor converts the "picture" of the toolpath on the screen, to the specific language for "your" machine.
Every builder can take a standard Fanuc control and make it do something a different in a way that requires a different code. I've seen machines by the same builder, with the same control, from different years, that require different postprocessors.
Mike Mattera
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