Writing a post would be a daunting task indeed. Your best bet would be to find a post that's close to what you want, and start modifying it.
Originally Posted by
Alex_Cole
Mastercam's post processors are not really any specific programming language. It's kind of there own language where they have some of there own functions.
Actually, MP is Mastercam's propriatary programming language. It uses all the basic features of any other language, with it's own syntax, functions, methods etc.
In order to make minor modifications to your posts, you can likely open it and do things. But if you want to use the advanced features, (if/then/else, buffer files, using strstr() and brksps() etc), then you'll need a basic knowledge of just about any other programming language, plus the reference guide. There was a book several years ago for posts, but I don't know if it's available any more.
Matt
San Diego, Ca
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