CYCLE TIME

[MCFELIX]

Hello everyone

does anyone have suggestion on how to calculate the travel of the tool in the part .example

i using a excel sheet to doing my time study i put my feed and speed ipm and others also i need put the amount need cut travel for the tool to calculate the time but my toolpaht have helix entry remachining the corner and other rare moves

 

 

thanks in advance

[Storkman]

Backplot will give you a cycle time.

[MCFELIX]

terry thanks for you input i need to know how many inchs travel my tool

[mcpgmr]

Backplot time is real close to actual cycle time. Did you ever do a comparison?

[mcpgmr]

oops too slow.

[Tim Simmermon]

In the backplot Dialog Box, underneath the Cycle Time, there is a section for Path Length. It is broken down by Feed & Rapid. This should be what you are looking for.

[MCFELIX]

sorry but i cant find it i used a version 9

[Tim Simmermon]

Yeah, I'm using X. Don't even have 9 installed anymore. Sorry.

[MCFELIX]

mcpgmr yes maybe is close to real time but i need to doing this way for my boss preference

[MCFELIX]

mcpgmr yes maybe is close to real time but i need to doing this way for my boss preference

[P_Scott]

MCFELIX,

 

You should see about investing in Cimco Edit V5. The Toolpath Statistics part of the NC Utilities really gives an accurate runtime with the total inches in feed and rapid travel. It works with any NC code file so you could use it with the code generated from V9. This would be an alternative if they weren't interested in updating your V9 to Mcam X. If the company is interested, they should do it soon as X2 is coming. The penalty fee for updating will increase after its release. HTH

[Matt Berube at Ferron Mold]

I can't remember...

 

Will mill.set output the travel length in V9 ?

[Guest]

These 2 swtiches are availabe in the mill.set from V9

 

code:

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tot_ltime : 0        # Total FEED time

tot_rtime : 0 # Total RAPID time

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[kinglouie V]

the supplied mill .set setup sheet always gave me this info. in the past.

[Santa Fe]

in V9.1 try this on operation manager right click go to options / setup sheet and it will give you some thing like

 

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TOOL FEED CUT LENGTH = 22.44

TOOL RAPID TRAVERSE LENGTH = 38.5277

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TOOL TIME = 1 MINUTE, 23.82 SECONDS

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got this info out of one toolpath only

 

good luck