Lathe tool station MC problem.

[g-codeguy]

I've gathered from reading this forum that the lathe part of MC is kind of a second class citizen. Some time ago I read a post where they were asking for input for improving the lathe side of MC.

 

I have another place for improvement. I have already informed my reseller about it, and assume they will be getting in touch with MC, although I'm not sure what that will accomplish. Been at least 3 years since we went over the threading cycle problem, and nothing has been done to correct it yet.

 

MC can be made to output the correct tooling callout in the program, but it won't list the tools in the header. Here is an example. The turret is a 12 station one. Double holders are used. "REAR TURRET" simply means that these are the tools used on the subspindle side. Not that there are two turrets!

 

FRONT TURRET

T0202 TURNING TOOL TNGG-331FN ZF1 XT3 FINISH TURN

T0303 1/2 IN. BORING BAR VBGT-221LF KC730

T0404 THREADING TOOL 16ER A60-G1 CP50

T0505 1/16 IN. CARBIDE CIRUIT BOARD DRILL .0625

T0606 3/32 IN. CARBIDE CIRCUIT BOARD DRILL FULLERTON IN LIVE TOOL

T0707 #47 CARBIDE CIRCUIT BOARD DRILL FULLERTON .0785

T0808 80 DEG. PROFILE TOOL CNMG-432MR 2025 ROUGH

T0909 15/64 IN. CARBIDE DRILL .2034

T1010 GROOVE TOOL N151.2-1000-80-4G 1125 .394 WIDE ROUGH

T1111 L.H. GROOVE BAR TLGP-2047R KC730

T1212 CUT-OFF TOOL GFN-3M IC354

T1232 BARSTOP

 

REAR TURRET

T0121 SEATING TOOL .015R

T0323 CARBIDE GROOVE BAR .047 WIDE .002R CORNERS

T0424 GROOVE TOOL HG-3031R 323FG

T0525 5/16 IN. CARBIDE BORING BAR CPGH-2150.5AAN-TN60 FINISH

T0222 TURNING TOOL TNGG-331FN ZF1 XT3

T0727 2-FLUTE CARBIDE TREPAN TOOL

T0929 1/4 IN. CARBIDE BORING BAR CPMT-1.81.21 UD5C ROUGH

T1020 FACE GROOVE TOOL FLG-3062L-CB GP50

T1131 .4375 CARBIDE DRILL

 

Surely this is not impossible for MC to output correctly. Not that I could put it to use yet as we still don't have a modified post that will correctly transfer the part and output the correct subspindle codes. However I also use double ID holders for main spindle work. Which is exactly what caused this post.