[CurtissCustomKnives]

Please excuse my rookie question, but how do I add one NC program to the end of another? I use Notepad++ to edit right now. So basically I want to take "Op1" and add "Op2" to it to make one program.

[Jim Dawson]

That is exactly how you do it, in Notepad

At the end of Op1 there are most likely some lines of code that look something like this:


M5 (Spindle Stop)
M9 (Coolant Off)
M30 (End of Program)
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So normally all you have to do is put Op2 ahead of these lines. There are also normally a few lines of preamble code that could be removed from Op2

If you have a tool changer then you will need to insert the needed code for that. If you need to manually change tools, then keep it as two separate operations/programs.

The other option is to just create the separate operations in your CAM program and post them as one program.