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With the new release of X4, the error reporting capabilities of Mastercam for the post are significantly improved. This means that Mastercam will pick up a lot of warnings and/or errors, that you may have had for a long time, but were never reported.

• This does not mean, that your post is not working properly, but simply that the error was never reported.
• To update your post, run the Chook (Alt + C), Updatepost.dll
  
• During posting, Mastercam may let you know that some errors/warnings have been found
  
  
  
• If you do have such errors, please verify the error log. This will indicate to you in detail, which area of the post is causing the error. This will also give you a detail on the type of error reported, and you will be able to verify if this error is fatal or not.
  
  
  
• After updating an Mplmaster (Lathe) based post from X3 to X4, you may receive the following error messages:
  
  
  
• To remove the error message file, open up the post (c;\mcamx4\lathe\post\mplmaster.pst) and search for the post block pprep$.
• The line containing rd_params$ needs to be commented out (#), like following:
  
  pprep$ #Pre-process postblock - Allows post instructions after the post is parsed but before the NC and NCI file are opened.
  #DO NOT ATTEMPT TO OUTPUT TO THE NC FILE IN THIS POSTBLOCK (OR ANY POSTBLOCKS YOU MAY CALL FROM HERE) BECAUSE THE NC OUTPUT FILE IS NOT YET OPENED!
    rd_cd$ #Read CD Parameters
    rd_mch_ent_no$ = 0 #Read only the machine base parameters (use to collect common parameters from CNC_MACHINE_TYPE)
    rd_md$ #Read machine definition parameters
    rd_tlpathgrp$
  # rd_params$
    if write_ops = 0, result=mprint(swriteopserror, 2) #Write NC Operation information MUST be enabled in CD