Couple of MP master Fadal questions

[DaveR]

1. What do I change in the post to get it to output in format 2 G54-55 etc. instead of E1-E2?

 

2. I have an index job with round stock, facing sides, I just want to output rotary index moves, no need for five work offsets right? Just use G54 set as the part and indexer centerline and face of the chuck. I'm getting e1-e5 offsets in my posted code even though in the WCS I left offsets set to -1 (off right?) so that must be an issue with the way I set up my tool planes? The index moves are all there and correct in the posted code so I made it that far.

[Guest]

I can not help with the changing from format 1 to format 2.

 

To output the same work offset when doing rotary work I found if I am working on a G54(E1)

just to set all my offsets to 0, that gives me a G54 across the ops.

 

Mastercam sees a rotary move as a new offset. To keep them all the same you must set them all the same.

 

HTH

[DaveR]

Ah, set to 0, I thought the -1 would do that, thanks for the help.

 

Dave

[crazy^millman]

Get the standard MPMASTER post then take the pwcs section out of it and paste it into the MPMASTER_FADAL post. This will give you the G54 workoffets output from the toolplane page in the paramters in Mastercam no need to for the Mi1 crap anymore using this method.

 

The operation all need to have the same workoffset in which to keep the same workoffets. The post is made so that if you pick nothing it gives you one for each side.

[DaveR]

Hey thanks Ron.

[DaveR]

I am now getting an error in posting

 

"variable not defined G_WCS"

[DaveR]

Oh wait I think I know what I did wrong...hang on

[DaveR]

Nope still doing it, variable not defined...know what that is?

 

I set all of my work offsets to -1, then tried the first op at 0 and the rest at -1, can't get no love from MPMaster_Fadal.

 

[ 07-02-2005, 03:56 PM: Message edited by: DaveR ]

[MetalMarvels]

If you added in the code from MPMASTER, you will need to define G_WCS (assumes you pasted in the MPMASTER pwcs section).

 

"fmt G 4 g_wcs #WCS G address"

 

tuck it in with the other fmt statements - such as after:

 

"fmt S 9 speedrt #Spindle Speed - Rigid Tapping

fmt M 4 gear #Gear range"

[DaveR]

10-4, I'm at work now, I'll try it out soon as I get home.

[DaveR]

pwcs #G54+ coordinate setting at toolchange

if mi1 > one,

[

sav_frc_wcs = force_wcs

if sub_level, force_wcs = zero

if workofs <> prv_workofs | (force_wcs & toolchng),

[

if workofs < 6,

[

g_wcs = workofs + 54

*g_wcs

]

else,

[

p_wcs = workofs - five

"G54.1", *p_wcs

]

]

force_wcs = sav_frc_wcs

!workofs

]

 

 

Heres what my p_wcs looks like.

 

After making thse changes you instructed, I now get " variable not defined p_wcs"? Any ideas?

 

Thanks for your help BTW, this is way over my head at least for now...

[M. Anderson]

Dave,

 

Do the same for this error as Gary told you for the other - copy the format statement for "p_wcs" into your post.

 

Look at the Format section of MPmaster and copy the line into your post.

 

I will almost bet you will get one (1) more error!

 

Maybe not? I don't have the post you are modifing.

 

Care to guess which one?

 

Hint - look at what you pasted - before something can = a variable, the variable has to be defined.

 

HTH

 

Later,

 

Mark

[MetalMarvels]

Mark is right - I missed the p_wcs variable in the section you copied. You would also need the format statement:

 

fmt P 4 p_wcs #WCS P address

 

All of the other variables used in pcws should already be defined in the original post.

[DaveR]

Alright, that did it looks like, just have to try and run this part now and see what happens!

 

Thanks a lot for the help guys

 

Dave

[DaveR]

My post is now "totally sweet" as my 12 year old would say. Thanks for all of your help.

 

dave

[MetalMarvels]

Holler if you have any more questions!!

 

My current quest is to figure out how I can interface a tool setting probe to my Fadal without buying a gazillion dollars worth of interface card and probe just to detect tool breakage.......

 

There just has to be a way.....