I've been asked to help move a process from a manual mill to our Multicam 3000 router / knife cutter. The machine uses fairly straightforward G&M codes. The main problem is the Z axis. The Multicam has a flipped Z-axis: positive values are down and negative is up.
I originally thought that I would copy the generic 3-axis mill definition and post, then alter from there. I thought that I would change the Z-axis direction in the Machine Definition and that would fix everything. I found that spot on the Machine Def, flipped it so positive Z was pointing down but, it still posts with positive values being up.
The question: where will I have to invert the Z-axis values? In the post? In the machine definition? Is this a setting somwhere else I hadn't thought of?
I already posted the output, used MS Word to search & replace all of the Z values into Z-. The output works fine except for this one glitch.