Cycle Time

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

How can one extract the cycle time from MC to output thru the post?

 

Thanks!

[Allan Brown]

Not easy.

 

I've kicked this around several different ways over the years.

 

Right now they best I have is that when you 'post', you actually run a setup sheet (.SET) style that outputs nothing, but writes the time estimate per tool or per op, and total to a buffer. The it launches your actual post, which reads the buffer, kicks out the values as comments in your NC file, then deletes the buffer at the end of posting.

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Yeikes.

 

In the laps between when I posted this and got your response, I have been hacking thru the lathe.set to try and incorporate that into my post directly. The results were.... messy. I suppose the other way is to just output the setup sheet and copy the time into my file manually....

[Allan Brown]

I've been down the 'smash setup sheet into the post' route before.

 

Setup sheets linearize arcs, do long-handing drilling, and a bunch of other simplifications that would need to be done in a more complicated manner to work in the context of a post, without breaking the post.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

[Dan@home]

Backplot window has cycle time also. Click the arrows down, the Info tab. How accurate it is ???

 

Dan.

[DavidB]

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How accurate it is ???

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Not accurate enough to use it never has been.

This all the toolpaths in a group backplotted cycle time is around 39mins

 

 

The actual on machine cycle time is more like double in this case.