WEAR COMP NOT WORKING

[K2csq7]

You can do that right in Mcam, select all operations, right click, edit selected ops, renumber tools, then put whatever you want in the field for "length offset value to be added to tool number".

[MotorCityMinion]

"you couldnt have been more right. it seems the machine is getting the height and cutter offsets from the same value." Glad to hear that worked out. If indeed this is the case, do not change the H value. Force your post to output a new D value instead. Keith A-1 stated "You can do that right in Mcam, select all operations, right click, edit selected ops, renumber tools, then put whatever you want in the field for "length offset value to be added to tool number". Good tip. This is how I post for our Makino, H1, D30.

 

Best solution here is to call the folks who did the upgrade and ask. A parameter usually controls the incremental value such as offset 1 for h1 and offset 30 for tool 1 dia. comp. Could be offset value 20 or 40 depending on how its set, usually in increments of 10 though. Try posting code out with lets say h1, using offset 1 for hiegth, and D30, using offset 30 for tool comp and see what happens. Try 20 or 40 if 30 does not work. You should have received a new manual with the upgrades, that would describe this function and point you to the parameter settings.

 

Regardless of the fix, always be care full when setting tool comps in this fashion. You probably have a 50/50 chance of scraping the part when it it picks up the wrong comp. It happens that fast as well. Looks strange when it misses the part by a mile, sucks really bad when it enters the part and keeps going. I did this when hard milling some pockets at 90. IPM and as luck would have it , the dam tool did not break and left one hell of a groove in the face. There's a c-hook for renaming machine def's that may help set you up just for theses machines once your tweaked.

 

 

[RIKS]

many thanks to all of you. i think i finally have everything working properly. i dont even want to begin to think about where i'd be without this site. prob even less hair on top of my head then i do now

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Another thing in Hurco controls when using cutter-comp, you have to set your look ahead in the control to 2 or 3 lines because it will look too far ahead and just do the lead in/lead out and not go around the part when cutting around the perimeter of a square/rectangle