MP_FADAL tool home @ 4th axis at move??

[Eric S.]

Hello all

 

Our resident Fadal guy is off on holidays so I have been struggling to twist my HAAS wired brain to work on the Fadal. He has never used mastercam to its full potential the programs are an mix of manual, mastercam and smartcam. So I have been trying to post my MC9.1 files to work on the Fadal with a new MPMASTER_FADAL post. So far it seems to have been working quite well (except for having to find way to fit in the control) until I tried to post for the 4th axis. The post is sending the tool home and stopping whenever there is a A move? I've been "attempting" to fix this problem myself but with my vary limited post knowledge I've just managed to waste time (and learn a couple of new thing about posts as well).

 

One of the operations from the post:

 

% pheader

O5203 pheader

(TEST) pheader

(JUN-29-05) pheader

(T20 | #2 CTR DRILL | D0.1250" ) pwrtt

G90G80G40G17G0 psof

(CTR DRILL TAP HOLE LOCATIONS ROTORY AXIS STAYS AT ZERO) psof pcomment2

T20M6(#2 CTR DRILL) psof ptoolcomm

M3S6000 psof ptlchg_com

M61(UNLOCK) psof ptlchg_com

G0G90X-.685Y-.25A0.E2 psof ptlchg_com

M60(LOCK) psof ptlchg_com

H20Z1.695M8 psof ptlchg_com

G81G99X-.685Y-.25Z1.442R1.695F20. pdrill

X-.685Y.25 pdrill_2

G80 pcanceldc

G0M5M9 ptlchg0 pretract

G53Z0 ptlchg0 pretract

M0 ptlchg0 pstop

M3S6000 ptlchg0 pstop

G0G90X-.495Y0.A180. ptlchg0 pstop

H20Z1.695M8 ptlchg0 pstop

(CTR DRILL .250 HOLES AT 180 DEG.) ptlchg0 pcomment2

X-.495Y0.Z1.695 ptlchg0 p__38:1259

G81G99X-.495Y0.Z1.42R1.695F20. pdrill

X-.875Y0. pdrill_2

G80M9 pcanceldc

G0M5 peof pretract

G53Z0 peof pretract

X0Y0Z0E0H0 peof

G90 peof

M30 peof

% peof

 

 

% peof

 

Any ideas on how I might fix this?

 

Thank you

Eric

[crazy^millman]

Look here and turn it to 0:

code:

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ret_on_indx : 1     #Machine home retract on rotary index moves, (0 = no, 1 = yes)  

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HTH

[Eric S.]

lol

 

I CAN'T BELIEVE I COULD NOT SEE THAT LINE!!

 

Thank you

 

lol

[crazy^millman]

No problem one of those been there done that enough knew exaclty what the problem was.

 

Glad to help.

 

[TheePres]

Was wondering...

Contrary to forum rules, I will ask if someone would please hook me up with MpMaster_Fadal post.

I am so swamped with work, can not find time to customize my own at this time.

[crazy^millman]

Have your dealer contact Dave at In-House and should be in like Flin in no time.

 

HTH