"C" axis post for fanuc

[Chris Czerniakowski]

Can someone please explain to me why the code produced is a increment move which makes the program a mile long.Is there away to make the post produce a "C" move with a "X" axis move.

[crazy^millman]

Are you doing this in a hortzional or Vertical I assume hort since you are using c and not a but could be wrong. It would also depend on the toolpath. If doing a part that rooldie would work for then you would see a great reduction in the moves. If you can put a sample aprt and tell use the post origianl like it on the cd I am sure someone can help you with this problem.

 

Crazy Millman

[PE @ IHS]

He is probably talking about live tooling lathe toolpaths. Generally milling machines don't come with a C axis (X,Y,Z,A,

 

Are you looking for canned cycle output? Is the shape you are cutting a spline by any chance?

[Jimmy Wakeford from Barefoot CNC]

SOme lathe posts have a misc setting for g107 cycles

 

Jimmy

[chris m]

Chris

 

mi4 in the MPLFAN post is used to activate coordinate system conversion for Fanuc controls. If you set mi4 to 1 (or -1, check the post header to see which you want) in the milling ops, this should give you what you are looking for.

 

Assuming, of course, that your machine has this option

 

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[crazy^millman]

Love it when you dotn know if they got helped out or not. I think it was for a freaking space ship. I need to get that orbiting motor to work right anyone got an idea how to do that.

 

 

Crazy Millman