Denford Orac sample G-Code

[drexen16]

I am a user of mastercam X2 educational version and I am currently enrolled in a CAM class at my high school. My teacher just got a new Denford Orac Machine and wants to test it out but hasn't had any free time in the last week because he also teaches other classes. We have not yet been able to write a simple program because we have not learned it as we just got the machine and just finished setting it up yesterday. i am wondering if anybody is willing to let us use a short program that you have written in G-code in order to test our new machine. We don't want it to be that big so please limit diameter to 2 or 3 inches, length no more than 5.

 

Thank you very much if you can help me.

 

 

Los Gatos High School

CADD/CAM 2nd year

[1 master]

you should have a generic post.

[drexen16]

the generic post i have does not output the correct code for our machine. i am looking for a simple little program and i have not found one yet.

[Allan]

Did the Machine come with manuals? Usually there is a sample in them.

Have you tried the post file I pointed you to previously? If so what does not work, what kind of errors?

 

Have you tried the Denford forum?

Denford Forum

 

If you don't have the Manual you can find one here: Orac Lathe Manual

 

 

Allan

 

[ 03-09-2008, 10:24 PM: Message edited by: Allan ]

[cadcam]

drexen16 go to the forum Allan pointed you to you will find what you need there.

[drexen16]

I have looked and they don't have current mastercam x2 post processor files. only old ones. will those work? I didn't try them out because i didn't think they would work. My instructor found a sample G-code but now instead of figuring out how to implement the file himself he wants us to setup the control computer. but i guess it is good experience.

[Yogesh K. Raman]

The denford people are very helpful...try their support site. I needed their assistance once and they responded very fast.

[drexen16]

hi, i have tried there website and i cannot find out anything. i have not gotten a single response. also, whenever i try making toolpaths for the geo i have it won't generate the path. It gives me an error message, i have tried closed chain, open chain, whatever i could think of. i really just need a Denford Orac lathe post processor and how to do a toolpath. i drew the top half of my geo then closed the chain with two lines going down and to the right, then after that i tried using lathe rough toolpath and it doesn't work.

 

does anybody have a tutorial that they could give me because i am a student and can't afford one of those $400 ones. If you could upload a short video of you creating your geo, then creating a toolpath i am sure i could figure it out from that.

 

thanks,

 

Derek

[cadcam]

I post the the updated post my self.you did not see that in the forum over there?

[drexen16]

hey cadman, yea, i looked and couldn't find it. i am not sure but maybe i am looking in the wrong places,

 

would you possibly be able to just email the post for the lathe to me,

 

thanks,

 

Derek

[email protected]

 

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Los Gatos High

CADD CAM Engineering course