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      <div class="title_topic2" id="xps10_pagetitle">Changing Postprocessor Kinematics</div>
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      <p class="para_topic">You can start with any existing postprocessor created with Post Builder and change the kinematics or the inch/metric setting through the following process:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Make a new post.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Select the new inch or metric setting.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Select the new kinematics setting.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Select the user option on the controller to browse for the post you want to change.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Create the post.</p>
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      <p class="para_topic">Your new post now has all of the custom commands and edits from your original post, but with new kinematics and/or inch/metric settings.</p>
      <p class="para_topic">You may need to add rotary words to the motion blocks when making a four or five axis post from a three axis post. To do this follow the steps below:</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Go to Program &amp; Tool Path&rarr;Program&rarr;Motion. In this dialog you may need to change the Linear Move and Rapid Move blocks. To do this, follow the steps below:</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">Click on the Linear Move, or Rapid Move blue event marker.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">In the dialog that displays, select the down arrow next to the drop down menu.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">From the drop down menu select fourth_axis.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">Click and hold the Add Word button until a block displays.</p>
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                  <p class="para_item">Drag the block over the block until a white outline appears, than release the mouse.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">If you have a four axis post you may only need to add the fourth_axis word. If you have a five axis post you may need to add both the fourth_axis and fifth_axis.</p>
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            <p class="para_item">Go to Program &amp; Tool Path&rarr;Program&rarr;Canned Cycles and select the Common Parameters event marker. Add the fourth_axis word in the same manner as the Linear and Rapid Move event markers. </p>
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