Mori Seiki NH4000 DCG sample code

[PDognite]

"The Company" is in the process of buying a new machine, the Mori Seiki NH4000 DCG HMC is the tool of choice. I currently have a post request in with our local Mastercam retailer, but I thought if I could get some sample code, I might be able to compare it with the output from the mpmaster generic post and if it is only minor tweaking that is needed, I could probably do that my self.

 

Anyone willing to post up or email a simple program consisting of a drill, ream, and maybe a mill cycle of some sort?

 

Thanks for your time.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

We've got one of them. I'll send you something.

[neurosis]

We just bought that exact same machine. Using the MPMaster post, you can get great results with out having to do "TOO" much tweaking.

 

Our local applications guy loaded a bunch of macros in to our machine and I have modified my post to take advantage of them "and" the HPCC that came with the machine.

 

I talked to our local rep and he said that a post could be had for a price but I decided to make our own.

 

Send me a PM and I will discuss it with you further. I would post code but it may not work with your machine depending on what if any macro's are loaded.

[Hitachi]

We took a MPMaster post and modified it for our NH4000, didn't take much work, matter of fact we built all of our posts from MPMaster.

 

 

Elco1971

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[Joe788]

MPMaster is great for any "standard" horizontal. Should be just fine for the NH4000. Best part, it's FREE!

 

Neurosis, what made you guys go with the NH4000? I thought the boss was all hot and heavy over the Toyoda FH400J?

[neurosis]

Sorry for the mini HiJack!

 

Joe,

 

They were very hot for the Toyoda! They were hot enough for it to fly me down to Cali to look at one in person.

 

We just couldnt find enough people to recommend it. There were absolutely "no" people in our area that had one and there were very few that we could call and talk with about that particular model period. It was just too new I suppose so it made the boss a little nervous.

 

The Toyoda was my first choice but in the end I think that we will be very happy with the Mori.

[PDognite]

Thanks for the input. Looking at the sample code Matt sent, it should be fairly easy to get the results we need.

 

Thanks again

[Joe788]

Continuing thread hijack....

 

Neurosis, did you get an NH with the newest control? The one like this:

 

[neurosis]

Yes,

 

It came with a Fanuc 30I and Mapps IV. It is exactly like that one.

[Hitachi]

Yeah the NH4000 is a quality built machine, we also have a NH5000 with a small pallet train and 5 SH-63's, these machine take a beating and still keep running

 

Elco1971

X4 Mill L3 Lathe L1 5X

SolidWorks

[DavidB]

New Mori Seiki's will have Mapps IV and Esprit built in.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

[Greg Williams]

quote:

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New Mori Seiki's will have Mapps IV and Esprit built in.

 

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So is that all new Mori's or just the multiaxis ones?

[DavidB]

All "N" series

NH, NMH, NMV, NT ect

[heavychevy2155]

Nice, so David, how you like your new gig?

[DavidB]

Just got back from Japan.

It's a floating lisence of Esprit per machine.

So if it's on a network anyone can use it.

Customer just bought four NH4000 DCG so he now has 4 seats of Esprit!

[Greg Williams]

David,

 

Just out of interest, Who supports the espirt licenses, Mori or the Espirt dealer network?

[neurosis]

If I understood correctly, our machine came with two years of support through Esprit. Esprit is running on the control itself and on one of our workstations using a network license.

[crazy^millman]

This information was passed on to me by a good friend at Mori and yes all Multiaxis Mill/Turn will come with Esprit. Could have been Mastercam had they done something years ago, but they got Art instead good trade. I am getting more and more calls from people asking about Esprit and looks like if I want to be doing Mill/Turn with Mori's I better learn it. I am hoping I can get something worked out, but may end up having to purchase Esprit in the near future. Would have been nice to have Mastercam come with all these machines. I will digress and just say what they have been warned about this for years is now coming true. Seeing the writing on the wall was not enough now hopefully the proof being in the pudding or this case the machine will wake them up and shake some action out of CNC software, but I really doubt it and here hope I am wrong.

[DavidB]

Hi Greg,

 

quote:

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David,

 

Just out of interest, Who supports the espirt licenses, Mori or the Espirt dealer network?

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This should answer your question.

Mori