MPMASTER FOR HORZ MILL

[HEAVY METAL]

Hello everyone I'm in the process of getting a post configured for are new fanuc om control which is on a horz mill. I using the mpmaster. My question is do I need to specify in the post that this a horz mill .

 

Thanks HEAVY

[robk]

Yes... Heavy look for this part in your .pst. As always don't override the original post.

 

quote:

---

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Rotary Axis Settings

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Typical Vertical

#srotary "A" #Rotary axis prefix

#vmc : 1 #0 = Horizontal Machine, 1 = Vertical Mill

#rot_on_x : 1 #Default Rotary Axis Orientation, See ques. 164.

#0 = Off, 1 = About X, 2 = About Y, 3 = About Z

# Typical Horizontal

srotary "B" #Rotary axis prefix

vmc : 0 #0 = Horizontal Machine, 1 = Vertical Mill

rot_on_x : 2 #Default Rotary Axis Orientation, See ques. 164.

---

[Tim Johnson]

code:

---

# Rotary Axis Settings

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Typical Vertical

#srotary "A" #Rotary axis prefix

#vmc : 1 #0 = Horizontal Machine, 1 = Vertical Mill

#rot_on_x : 1 #Default Rotary Axis Orientation, See ques. 164.

#0 = Off, 1 = About X, 2 = About Y, 3 = About Z

# Typical Horizontal

srotary "B" #Rotary axis prefix

vmc : 0 #0 = Horizontal Machine, 1 = Vertical Mill

rot_on_x : 3 #Default Rotary Axis Orientation, See ques. 164.

# #0 = Off, 1 = About X, 2 = About Y, 3 = About Z

rot_ccw_pos : 0 #Axis signed dir, 0 = CW positive, 1 = CCW positive

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The vertical mill is "active" (without the # marks. Just add # to the beginning lines of the vertical and remove them the horizontal.

 

Note: My "rot_on_x" = 3 , I use the front plane for my paths and rotate around "Z" You may want to rotate around the "Y".

[HEAVY METAL]

Looks like everything is all ready set. I'm sure I'll have some more ?'s as a get more into this control

 

 

Thanks heavy