Front & Rear lathe turrets

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

How can I setup for front and rear turrets? The front obviously being X+ and the rear being X-?

 

Thanks!

[3rdstring]

I believe you should set your tooling up to use the lower turret to program x-.

 

HTH

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Hey 3rd, I am actually looking to use both upper and lower turrets within the same program. Any idea how you can run them together (not at the same time though)?

[crazy^millman]

You need to set-up your tools and use the turret the works for each one. You also need to make sure you pick the tool the correct way and then the biggest thing is make sure you have a post that supports dual turrets. I am not sure if the standard one supports dual turrets. Also need to make sure the MD has the upper and lower turrets set-up in its definetions. Depending on the machine you will have wait codes for doing upper andlower turret turning and how the post handles this could be a misc code. If you are looking to do pinch turning then look to the machine and see if hasa supported can cycles for doing this and might find it works alot easier than trying to program this with Mastercam.

 

BTW what kind of machine is it? What is the modle of the machine and it's Control?

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

The one I am looking at is an older VDF V800 with a Fanuc 16 (T?) control. AKA 'The Bohringer'. It has 4 stations on each turret and it is a scary old beast with tons of power! =]

 

I like it, all be it the control is kinda crude...

 

I shall have a look at the MPLFanuc post that comes with MCX2 and see if it will do what I want before I go anywhere with this, then look into the machine and contol defs for it.

 

Thanks for the help!

[Chao]

We have two mori lathe with twin turrets. the controls are Fanuc 15 AT. We modified the post from PMLfanuc. the main things are the bottom turret work on X+ instead of X-. The G2s and G3s need to switch over each other for the bottom turret. We use manual entry to do the synchronizing to output Ms codes.

 

HTH,

 

Chao

[Hymen]

MillingMan

I sent you an example how I performed this.

[crazy^millman]

Chao you could do a Misc Interger and get it like you want with one click of the mouse verse having to type it everytime.

 

HTH