Our post writers are the best in the business, and we work closely with our customers and machine manufacturers to find the best way to accomplish your goals. We have an amazing team with over 100 years of combined machining experience. The most common way to get a post customized for your machine and the way you run it is to have us do it for you. Get it right and it will bridge the gap between what you programmed and your machines’ full capabilities. Get it wrong and your machine may not cut the part or worse yet, do something foolish like run the spindle into the table or chuck (which gets expensive quickly).

Post-processors are a critical part of your CAM and CNC tool set, and without the right post the machine may not run properly or to its full potential.

Bring the machine table to the front center at the end of the program so the parts can be more easily unloaded.

Add a custom header to the file including the programmer's name.

Introduce different types of coolant control.

Modify the code output to match the parameter setting in the controller.

These posts are great for 2.5 axis milling and turning but at some point, machinists will want to do more. Both SOLIDWORKS CAM and CAMWorks come with several posts but you can download many more machine-specific posts for free from our CAM post-processors page. You’ll definitely want to start with a post built for the machine or controller you’re using.

The driver ensures your new card can communicate properly with your computer and work correctly. Another way to think of a post- processor is like a driver you might install after picking up a new graphics card. This output, called G & M codes (or NC code), is really just a well-formatted text file that is specific to your machine and how you want to run it. Simply put, a post-processor (or post) converts the tool paths we make in CAM tools like SOLIDWORKS CAM or CAMWorks into a specific output format your machine can understand. We’re going to try to answer many of these common questions in this blog article. How do you change the post you're using?.How do you get your post-processor customized?.Many people have questions about the post-processors used in CAM systems, such as:

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