Fanuc macro question

[YoDoug®]

On a two channel fanuc like a 16tb on a twin turret lathe. does each channel get its own set of variables? Also does each channel get its own set of macro call arguments?

 

Example

 

channel 1 - G65 P9001 H10. (H assigning local #11 = 10.)

 

channel 2 - G65 P9002 H100.

 

TIA

[Dave Ball]

The answer is yes, or at least it is on our Mori DL25. We have seperate variables and arguments for head 1 & head 2.

 

HTH

[YoDoug®]

Thanks, I didn't want to interupt production to check and I couldn't find the manuals.

 

I have been thinking of writing some macros to handle things that mastercam doesn't in our Swiss types. Like part eject and Head stock re-grip on the part.

[Dave Ball]

You may still want to check your machines, this could have been be a purchased option, I don't remember.

[YoDoug®]

as far as I can tell there are no canned cycle/macros in the machine for these features. Right now I have a post that has a mix of some hard coding and post questions to handle these functions, however I am not a big fan of hard coding lots of stuff into posts. It paints you into a corner with your posted code and then requires hand editing of code. Thats why I am thinking about a couple of simple macros.