Pierce delay only allowing whole numbers in F360 on a MAC

EdS · August 9, 2018, 4:51pm

The pierce delay on F360 CAM properties for the imported Crossfire table will only accepts whole numbers. It will accept 1,2,10 but .5 or 1.25 will turn the text red and remove the “OK” button from the bottom of the field. Anyone have any suggestions on how/where to fix this? TIA

Click on the picture to see the lower half off the field that includes the red .5 delay setting.

langmuir-mike · August 9, 2018, 4:58pm

Hi @EdS,

There is a solution for this issue. Back out of the post processor and make sure to put a ‘0’ before the decimal point. So in your case it should be 0.5 in the entry field for pierece delay.

Thanks!
Mike

Jeremy · August 9, 2018, 4:59pm

I am not sure what screen you are on there but any combo within this area for me.

EdS · August 9, 2018, 5:53pm

Are you using a MAC or PC? That is the same screen from the tutorial videos but I have never seen it on F360 on the MAC. The process to load the post process configuration is different and that screen doesn’t pop up. The only place I can find to adjust the properties is in the screen I captured above.

langmuir-daniel · August 9, 2018, 6:14pm

Hi Ed,

So just to be clear you are using a Mac? What happens when you click the ‘up/down’ arrow keys that are to the right of the pierce delay input box?

Jeremy · August 9, 2018, 6:15pm

Sorry Ed, I have no idea then. I use a PC/Windows.

EdS · August 9, 2018, 6:29pm

Yes on MAC.

Arrow keys change the delay In whole number incriments only.

langmuir-paul · August 9, 2018, 6:55pm

Hey Ed-

This may be an issue with Fusion. I’ve been able to get it to work (and you can change the sub second value without having to do it in the gcode) by altering the .CPS file directly with a text editor. We may upload this updated POST on our website if another solution isn’t found.

Find the Mach 3 Post in your Macintosh HD> Users> USERNAME> Autodesk> Fusion 360
CAM> Posts folder
Open it with a raw text editor (on our test Mac, TextEdit)
Edit the ‘user-defined properties’ in the file so that the default value for pierceDelay is under a second

Save
In Fusion, swap between “personal posts” and “generic posts” for the post to reset and pull from the file.

You should be able to edit the value to sub seconds.

EdS · August 9, 2018, 8:02pm

Thanks Paul, that worked but it still exposes a little bit of a bug in Fusion.

After editing the file, as described above, Fusion CAM will allow you to manually enter any number but it will still default to 1 in the display. It does that even though the pop up will reflect the default as modified in the .cps file.

The up and down arrows will also react differently depending on what the number is manually changed to.
If it is displaying a whole number (1) then the arrows move in whole numbers.
If it’s displaying 1.5, then the arrows will add/subtract in .1 incriments.

If it’s displayIng anything less than 1 (i.e. 0.7) then the arrow keys no longer function.

bsulley22 · August 10, 2018, 2:22am

Nice thanks paul mine was doing the same thing I was having to do this.

post it with 1 sec
go back to post again this time it allows me to chose decimal
now post it again this time click on replace the previous post

Don’t know why but this worked for me

With your fix I can now choose decimals the first time

Meatballs · January 20, 2019, 4:14am

Right on bsulley22! That works great! Thanks a bunch.

Another option might be to save the posted file with a .txt extension (Mach3 will use it just fine) and go in with a text editor and do a batch replacement of G4 P1 with G4 P0.5 (or whatever decimal one would like).