post help - custom drill cycles

[YoDoug®]

I am modifying a lathe post to use custom drill cycles for part probing. I have three cycles set up for custom 9,10,11. the output is just about what I need, what I am having trouble is getting the labels inside of the toolpath on the custom drill parameters to say "diameter", "print", etc.

 

TIA

[cadman2112]

Which parameters Doug?

 

 

Those labels are handled down in the text section of the X posts.

 

If it is on the custom parameters tab

 

you'll have to add in the labels something like this

 

code:

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[drill cycle 10 custom parameters]

1. "ID PROBE PARAMETERS"

2. ""

3. ""

4. ""

5. ""

6. ""

7. "(S) HOLE SIZE"

8. "(W) WORK OFFSET"

9. ""

10. ""

11. ""

---

[YoDoug®]

I added this and there is no change.

 

code:

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[drill cycle 9 custom parameters]

1. "DIAMETER TO MEASURE"

2. "VARIABLE NO TO STORE THE POSITION ERROR"

3. "TOLERANCE = H.001 = +/-.001"

4. "VARIABLE NO TO STORE THE ERROR"

5. "STYLUS OVERTRAVEL"

6. "THE RADIUS OF THE FEATURE FOR OFFCENTER FEATURES"

7. "SPINDLE ORIENTATION FOR MEASURE"

8. "TOOL NO TO BE UPDATED"

9. "UPPER LIMIT ERROR AMOUNT"

10."PRINT, 1.0 PRINT W/O HEADER, 2.0 PRINT W HEADER"

---

I also tried changing the text in the control def and no change with that either

[cadman2112]

You'll need to "reload" the machine def to pick up the changes.

 

also,

 

if you have multiple control def inside of the text section, you might check to make sure you edited the one for that machine.

 

Where it lists the control

 

code:

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[CTRL_MILL|HAAS_3AX__MPMASTER]

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[Tim Johnson]

Did you replace your machine def after editing the text? Also make sure you either have only one text section or add it to all your text sections.

 

Err... what he said

[YoDoug®]

No go, I tried reloading, replacing, and even creating a new machine group/toolpath. I also added it to all text sections. still no change.

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Try restarting MC

[YoDoug®]

Tried restarting, no go.

[Guest]

Doug,

 

Try scrolling through your other drill cycle and see if the options become available on a different custom cycle.

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Are they on here?

code:

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 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Enable Canned Drill Cycle Postblocks, set for mill and lathe

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

pcuttypldrl #Change cut parameters for lathe drill

usecandrill$ = 0

usecanpeck$ = 0

usecanchip$ = 1

usecantap$ = 1

usecanbore1$ = 0

usecanbore2$ = 0

usecanmisc1$ = 0

usecanmisc2$ = 0

---

[YoDoug®]

John, no luck

 

Don, mine looks identical to what you just posted.

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Try adding

code:

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usecanmisc9$ = 1  

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[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

forget that misc 9

thats not it

at the end of your post file in the text section did you add the ifo here

code:

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 [CTRL_MILL|MPFAN-PROBE]

[misc integers]

---

[Don S at Barefoot CNC South]

Also add them here.

code:

---

 [CTRL_MILL|DEFAULT] 

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[Tim Johnson]

Try moving your cycle 9 custom parameters to cycle 10 custom parameters .

[YoDoug®]

Tim, already tried that. No go.

[Tim Johnson]

Do you have more than one text section? If so make sure "[CTRL_TEXT_END]" is removed from the previous sections. There should only be one at the end of the last text.

[Guest]

Mail Doug.

 

For some reason which I cannot put my hands on it just would NOT see your section.

 

I went into the control def >> text section and named a custom cycle, this in turn created a new control def reference in your post. I then copied all of your stuff into the new reference, deleted the old and all is now well.

 

I've seen small spelling errors cause problems when naming by hand but yours was named exactly the same as the new created one, so I am sort of stumped as to the why but it is now fissed

 

[YoDoug®]

Thanks John, It looks great. I just added description info for the other 2 probe cycles and they are showing up as should.

 

I still have some more testing before I can release this to my other programmers. If I come across anything else weird I will post.