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HAAS SL-20 canned live tool cycles in MC


sean_murphy
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I've been programming a HAAS VF-3 at work with mastercam for a while now and I just started trying to program the HAAS SL-20 turning center with live tooling. The part included a hexagon to be milled into it. When using mastercam's c-axis face contour toolpaths it output gcode that commanded very specific C moves. But apparently my machine doesn't have a c axis, just live tooling. I eventually hand coded the polygon with the G77 cycle as follows:

 

T707 

S10 M03 

M133 P2500 

G00 X3. 

Z-2.202 

G77 J0.312 L6 R0.5 

G98 G01 X4. F20. 

M135 

M05 

G28 U0. W0.

 

That worked fine, but what I would rather is have MasterCAM output the gcode my machine understands. The problem might just be my post processor, or that I have the machine definition setup wrong, but I'm really not sure. Any help would be much appreciated.

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