Lathe post edit

[Tony35]

still tweaking the lathe post for our okumas and im almost there but i want to tweak the tool comments at the top of the post

 

sample code

 

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(TOOL NO. - 3 - 80 DEG ROUGH TURN - OFFSET - 3 - INSERT - CNMG-432 - HOLDER - DCLNR - 164D)<<<<<<<<<

(TOOL NO. - 1 - 55 DEG FINISH TURN - OFFSET - 1 - INSERT - DNMG-431 - HOLDER - DDQNR - 164C)<<<<<<<<<

(TOOL NO. - 4 - .055 RAD ROUGH FORM TOOL - OFFSET - 4 - INSERT - .055 RAD .410 LONG ROUGH - HOLDER - FORM TOOL)<<<<<<

(TOOL NO. - 5 - .055 RAD FINISH FORM TOOL - OFFSET - 5 - INSERT - .055 RAD .410 LONG FINISH - HOLDER - FORM TOOL)<<<<<

 

 

( * MACHINE TOOL : OKUMA LB-15 )

( * PART NUMBER - 7000132 CURL TOOL TEST )

( * PROGRAMMER - )

( * REV LEVEL - )

( * DATE - 12 / 08 / 10 )

 

N10 CLEAR

N20 DEF WORK

N30 PS LC,[0,0],[0,0],2

N40 END

N50 DRAW

N60 M59

 

(ROUGH TURN +.01)

NAT03

N70 G0 X20. Z20.

N80 G50 S2000

N90 G0 G95 X20. Z20. G96 S500 M42

 

 

where is the tool comments getting pulled from so i can adjust what gets output

thanks for any help

[chris m]

Used to be ptoolcomment; probably still is

[Tony35]

i was playing around in there but could not get anything to change.....i will dig a little deeper in there

[Jim Evans from CNC Software]

All depends on what post you are using. The ptoolcomment in many of the CNC Posts are used to build the entire output line and then output it. But when doing tool lists at the beginning of the NC file you need to incorporate the use of the PWRTT postblocks and processing so the NCI file can be scanned and tool lists can be built.

 

Then you can call ptoolcomment from multiple postblocks to build the lines and output at different locations in the NCI -tool list at the top of the file, or tool comment at the tool change, etc.

 

Try using the debugger to follow the postblock flow and output build and then you will know where it is coming from in YOUR post.

[Tony35]

thanks Jim

i will look into this