Coolant on always all paths

[Thee Rickster ™]

X4 MU1

 

I cut graphite on Haas high speed CNC's.

 

I want coolant on for all tool changes.

Is there a switch in the control def or somewhere, for this so I don't have to

keep changing it manually for each path I create.

 

Back in X2 Mr2 it stuck and it never sticks any more

 

Thanks

Rick

[Guest]

Rick,

 

If you don't use Tool Step, peck and coolant. set it in the OP defaults.

 

If you use Tools Step peck and coolant set it in the tools.

 

It does stick

[Thee Rickster ™]

JP, I dont need it for drilling.

 

I re-channeled my coolant so it only flow though

the spindle cooling chamber.

 

So when I have a 116 ball flying at 14000 rpm

for 6hrs it keeps the spindle cool.

 

I run 3/4 ball at 12000 etc

 

In my post I had in-house put generic stuff(way back)

at every toolchange, maybe I can have it put an

M08 at the beginning and an M09 at the end

of each change?

 

N310 Y-4.2122

N320 G80 <--------

N330 G91 G28 Z0.<------

N350 M01 <-------

N360 G17 G40 G80 G90 G54 <--------

N370 #30 DRILL

N380 T10 M06 NO. 30 DRILL

N390 MAX - Z3.

N400 MIN - Z.05

 

Rick

[Thee Rickster ™]

Btw,

 

it is set to on on all the ops in the control def.

[cormigu]

I have the same problem....How can I fix it?

[Rob @ Target Machine]

Here's a Linky from a while ago. This was a workaround for X3.

 

My coolant sticks, but I use step, peck, coolant to pull the code from the tool def.

 

If you want to use coolant from the tool, you can export the tool library to a text file, change the coolant codes, then import the text back to a tool library. It's faster than editing each tool one at a time.

 

 

HTH

 

[ 12-09-2009, 05:42 PM: Message edited by: Mastercam Guru ]

[Thee Rickster ™]

I just want coolant on all the time. All tool paths.

Every tool change, M08.

Why is this such a task?

 

What is this step peck coolant array you guys

are talking about.

 

in a 16 hour program, I peck drill graphite for

20 minutes. The coolant on, cools my spindle,

that is all, it doesent ever spray on my 'graphite

workpiece.

 

Guru, i have hundreds of saved ops, do I have

to do this export thing to all of them?

[Dave.L]

quote:

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What is this step peck coolant array you guys

are talking about.

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When using "use tools step, peck coolant" option.

 

Rick,

 

Why not hard code coolant "on" always in your post?

[peon]

Rick, I also used "use tools step, peck coolant" option on the Haas machines. I setup every tool in my trode library with coolant on. It works like a charm.

[Henk]

quote:

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I just want coolant on all the time. All tool paths.

Every tool change, M08.

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You can put it as hardcode in your post.

[Tony35]

i would just hardcode it in the post and be done with it then there is no worries if its on or off

 

JM2C

[Thee Rickster ™]

Good enuf, I suck at post editing, so I will keep ya posted on how well I do.

 

Any chance some one could tell me where the tool change line is, i use a haas post

 

Thanks all.

 

Rick

[Tony35]

ptlchg_com #Tool change common blocks

if force_output | sof,

[

result = force(ipr_type,ipr_type)

result = force(absinc$,absinc$)

result = force(plane$,plane$)

]

pcom_moveb

pcheckaxis #Check for valid rotary axis

c_mmlt$ #Multiple tool subprogram call

ptoolcomment

if sof & scomm_sav <> snull,

[

spaces$ = 0

n$, pspc, scomm_str, *scomm_sav, scomm_end, e$

spaces$ = sav_spc

]

if sof = 0, scomm_sav = snull

comment$

pcomment3

pmisccheck

#pcan MOVED TK 2/24/09

if stagetool >= zero,

[

if omitseq$ = 1 & tseqno > 0,

[

if tseqno = 2, n$ = t$

ptoolcomm, e$

pbld, *n$, *t$, "M6", e$

]

else, pbld, n$, *t$, "M6", e$ #ptoolcomm, e$

]

pbld, n$, "M50 (CHIP FLUSH ON)", e$

if mi1$ = 1, n$, *sm00, e$ # ADDED TK 2/24/09

if nextdc$ <> 3, pbld, n$, pfspindleout, e$

pcan #MOVED COOLANT BEFORE TO HERE TK 2/24/09

spaces$=0

if output_z = yes$,

 

rickster look how i forced M50 to be on, turns on every tool change

 

HTH

[Thee Rickster ™]

Ok, I found this

 

pbld, *n$, *t$, "M06", ptoolcomm, e$

]

else, pbld, n$, *t$, "M06", ptoolcomm, e$

]

...

#pbld, *tn, e$ <--change this to

This? --> #pbld, n$, "M08", e$

....

 

#pbld, n$, "G00G90", *next_tool$, e$

[Tony35]

no not M50 thats for my kitamura

yes the quotes are required

 

just how you have it

 

pbld, n$, "M8",e$

 

if you dont want a block number remove n$

 

HTH

[Thee Rickster ™]

Tony I edited my last post.

 

There is a # sign before pbld, keep that in?

 

Please verifiy

 

Thanks

Rick

[Thee Rickster ™]

I copied my rickx4.pst to my desktop.

Renamed the one in the mill/post folder to rickx4_org.pst.

edited the one on my desktop/saved and copied it to

the mill/folder.

 

posted out 13 tools, searched for M08 and it found

none

 

 

Any Idea?

 

Thanks

Rick

[Thee Rickster ™]

I just figured out that if you import a toolgroup

of paths that have all the coolant on, every path

after importing comes in with the coolannt off.

 

Is there a switch to remedy this

 

Thanks

Rick

[Tony35]

how did you force the code M08 or M8?

are you sure you have the correct path for the post picked?

[Thee Rickster ™]

I opened the mach/def and went to control/def and

look through every single option and cannot find anything related to turning coolant on.

 

Where might I find coolant related stuff in the control def?

 

Rick

[Thee Rickster ™]

Just like I mentioned above

like this

 

#pbld, *tn, e$ <--I changed this to

#pbld, n$, "M08", e$ <---This

 

is it right?

 

The inhouse guys will be in shortly, I see if I can

a tech to help

 

Thanks

Rick

[Tony35]

quote:

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I just figured out that if you import a toolgroup

of paths that have all the coolant on, every path

after importing comes in with the coolannt off.

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dont get me started with importing ops

 

it seems to be ok with MU2 but i have not imported a lot of ops yet to give a good answer to that i had some issues importing with coolant sticking but i use tools coolant and on some of my ops i use V9 style coolant because it wasnt sticking

 

so i dont think there is a switch did you save them with coolant on?

[Tony35]

quote:

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#pbld, n$, "M08", e$ <---This

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take the # sign out it will ignore it with the # sign in front of it

[Thee Rickster ™]

I can email you my post if you like Tony.

[Tony35]

send away i will take a look at it