flow waterjet ver6 language for MC post

[Paul_RagotCADCAM]

Anybody uses a Flow waterjet with MC?

I am writing a post and need to figure out the language. Here is a sample:

VER 6.00

12.0389, 13.8251, 0.0000, 0, 80, 1,-1

12.0389, 13.3251, 0.0000, 1, 80, 1,-2, 12.0389, 14.0041, 0.0000

11.3599, 14.0041, 0.0000, 1, 80, 1,-2, 12.0389, 14.0041, 0.0000

 

Cols 1,2&3 are XYZ

col 4 (0 or1) may be jet on/off

col 5: 80 is cut quality

col 6: 1 or 0 ? no idea

col 7: -2, -1, 0, 1, 2: no idea

col 8-11 are the XYZ of the next arc ctre

 

Anybody familiar with this language?

 

Paul

[ken wong]

flow path program faster.

before i use with mc9 post and it work perfect only one thing i can not set is nose rapid move .1 above the face meanwhile command was 1. above .now i come back to flow path acctualy much faster

[M_CODE1]

I just use the FlowPath software.

 

Does your Flow Water Jet breakdown often. Ours seem to be breaking something every week or so. If it aint the pumps leaking its the whips forming a leak. I think its the biggest money pit I have ever seen.

[MLS]

We had a post at one point, but found that outputting a clean DXF to Flowpath will work better. If you draw your profile with color coding for transition move(green I think) and cut quality moves(purple for 80) it works really nicely. They can import in Flowpath and a few clicks then done.

 

If I remember right, one of the columns are for water only or water/sand.

 

For some reason Flowpath creates a path that will run considerably smoother and faster than we could ever get it to output. Something having to do with small lines and how it interprets them.

[Racerje]

I used to run the Flowjet at my other shop. I used Cadkey to draw the parts and nest then used flowpath to do the cutting. The machine its self was very high in maintenance I rebuilt the pump every 300 hours if I didnt I would have problems. Flow told me to run pump at 50k psi I had better luck with pump lasting as 45k psi

[Allan Brown]

Pretty sure we have that worked out Paul, you want to drop Chris an email.