lathe.set

[Jeremiah]

Hello Forum. I am a mill 9 level 3 user and am starting to implement MasterCam in our lathe dept. I have modified lathe.set to output "tool type" using the 20000 nci parameters. I am using 20100 for the lathe tool types and 20004 for mill tool types, for mill/turn applications. It works great untill there is a mill tool after a lathe tool, then it is using parameters from the previous lathe tool in combination with the mill tool. I have a conditional statement then post line call to the specfic tool type, but it still seems to combine the 20100 variables with the 20004. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

Jeremiah

[gstephens]

You should have 2 completely different postblocks. 1 for mill operations and 1 for lathe operations and they should be called from mtlchg and ltlchg respectively.

 

Parameters are the second trickiest thing in MP. Make sure you have enough variables defined for the longest version of the specific parameter (same # can have many different meanings). Also you have to keep track of the variables as you may name one for 1 type of tool, but the name doesn't work for a different type.

 

Confused?

[Jeremiah]

Thanks a million. The stock lathe.set file only had ptlchg. When I added the mtlchg and ltlchg, along with some other edits it worked great. Thanks for the hints. This forum is too awesome.

 

Jeremiah