Actual machine time?

[Brendan P]

When I backplot a lathe file,at the bottom of my screen,it will say "Machining time 10 minutes,25 seconds".

Then it says,"Please use set up sheet to get specific time estimate".

 

Is the time that the backplot gives you not very accurate?

And also,I have gone to the "setup sheet" and cannot find any machine times in there,

WTH am I missing.

If there is times in the set up sheet,please explain to me how to find them.

 

thank you in advance

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

When discussing Setup Sheets, you need to let everyone know WHICH setup sheet generator you are talking about ->

 

1> the Graphic setup sheet option in MC

2> the .SET (post type) setup sheet option in MC

3> the HTML Setup Sheet (from In-House Solutions)

 

The .SET type setup sheet generators for LATHE that shipped with MC v9+ DO output times ->

 

(for each tool ->)

Time for tool 2: 0 hours, 1 minutes, 24 seconds

 

(and program total ->)

Total time: 0 hours, 34 minutes, 41 seconds

[Brendan P]

I must be talking about the grafic set up sheet.

op. manager/options/set up sheet.

This is where I am going to look for the times.

Is this not right?

 

How do you use the .set set up sheet?

 

sorry for not being specific,I didn't know there was a difference.

I am using v9.1

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

Screen -> Configure -> NC Setting(tab)

Look in the middle-right of the dialog for...

 

Setup Sheet

* Post (uses .SET file)

* Using Graphical Interface

 

If you select '.SET' type, you can specify the Setup Sheet template file (the .SET) under the Files (tab), look under File Usage and highlight 'Setup Sheet Template'. Now look below in the File name text box for the the ?.SET filename.

[Brendan P]

Thank you very much Roger,just as I read it in the help section,I realized that I had never checked this off in screen/configure.I had it set for graphical interface.(all this damn time)

I did get it to work for me.

Again,thank you for your patience.

[Rekd™]

Bucket, note that you will need to specify the rapid and tool change times in your .set to get more accurate readings.

 

:edit:

This is from Mill2.set:

 

code:

---

# Specific setting to allow tuning the cycle time calculations ->

 

# Set the time it takes for machine to do a toolchange ->

tlchgtime : .1 # Tool Change Time (* in Minutes *)

 

# Set the Rapid Traverse Rate of the machine

38. Rapid feedrate (Inches per Minute)? 400.0

1538. Rapid feedrate (MM per Minute)? 10000.0

#These values are loaded into the pre-defined post variable -> pst_rpd_fr (v9)

---

:/edit:

 

'Rekd

 

[ 08-04-2003, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: Rekd ]

[Brendan P]

Thank you Rekd...

 

Bucket teh kinda has a clue

[Lathe-Mill]

WHAT'S UP BUCKET!, remember you need to use cutter comp. also, otherwise wont give you cutting time,mill and lathe (use wear cutter comp.)

[Nominal]

and canned cycles.