Just want B0 output only

[ChrisD]

Hello everyone . I am writing a post for a kitamura horizontal . In some of the mcx files we have ther are rotations from front plane to right side plane which gives me B0 and B 90 . I have tried to force output of just B0 regardless of toolplane using mi5 to force it. But it keeps giving me B90 at the pzrapid . Am I going about this the wrong way? Is the toolpane change impossible to overcome in the post?

[Guest safeboats]

I know CNC Softwares generic 4 axis post does this. I haven't been able to force b output with the mpmaster post....

[Josh Kinney -Elite Engineering]

Oops... that was me that posted above ^^^^

[Glenn Bouman]

Chris, you will need to add your logic to pfcout, change it so that instead of outputting *cabs just update that variable !cabs and then add "B0"

[ChrisD]

Hey Glenn thanks for the response. So yeah you're right. As soon as I got off the forum, I realized I was missing just one statement in pfcout. It made all the difference.

 

Chris DiNardo

[K2csq7]

Did you think about using a different WCS instead of toolplanes? That will allow you to program from different planes but still get B0 in the code.... and if you do it that way you can still get the rotations by using T/C planes in the future if you come across a need for them. From my understanding that is the "by the book" of going about it.

[NOTW Programmer]

Chris, you will need to add your logic to pfcout, change it so that instead of outputting *cabs just update that variable !cabs and then add "B0"

Glenn what is the difference between cabs and !cabs. And where would I add the B0 ?

[ChrisD]

I do agree with you. Actually that's what I was doing at first but they wanted to be able to turn it on and off without changing the WCS . THere are also different things Im adding such as tool life management and probing etc. So they just want to be able to go the misc values screen and do everything from there.

[Glenn Bouman]

Glenn what is the difference between cabs and !cabs. And where would I add the B0 ?

 

 

cabs is output B axis value, !cabs means update the current value of cabs but do not output it.(has to do with the modality of that variable)

You can put B0 on the same line.