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So to finalize and round out this project, we're now going to go through the process of not only going through a G-code simulation, but also post-processing and exporting the G-code files. Now the manner in which we do this is in simulation we want to go to the G-code based simulation option and we want to select the correct post-processor. So in this instance I'm going to go with a 10mm Sinumeric 840D post-processor and we also want to define the correct interpreter. So again we choose the Sinumeric 840D interpreter and we select that.
And it'll take a minute or so to generate the ENCY programs required for this, but once they're produced for each operation we will have a full ENCY program that we can step through. and make sure that all of the commands in it align entirely with what we're expecting of them. So if we start with LatheFacing1 we can see now that as we step through each of these processes it does exactly what we're expecting it to do in terms of motion and obviously it will contain things like set feed rates and everything which we don't have at the moment. This gives us our complete reviewable G-code before we finally pull the trigger on actually exporting the job.
So I'm quite happy with the status of each of these G-code outputs so I'm going to go back to machining and I'm going to post-process the job. So we've got our post-processor defined as was defined using the definition in the G-code simulation so we can now just click on run. and it will generate the folder and in doing so it will output the entire G-code that we need for all of our operations which given the amount that we've done a well 1895. so over 2 yeah that's that's not too many lines in there that's quite an efficient little program so I'm quite happy with how that's turned out.
and hopefully this has illustrated the simplicity with which one can not only generate a full G-code simulation but also export the final program as well. Thanks for watching this series and I'll catch you in the next one. Thanks for watching this series, and I'll see you in the next one.