Lathe Chuck Parameters

[The Cathedral]

I'm trying to get the post to pick up the lathe chuck Z position. I'm using the MP parameter book but what it's recommending is not posting. Documents say it's parameter 17435, but the book is for X7. Did it change for X8, or does it only post when you have a misc/chuck operation?

 

 

[crazy^millman]

That is a CNC Software Post Department question. If you have gone through and wrote the pprameter process for it and not getting the output you would expect then the post department is going to be your best bet.

[EX-wccprogrammer]

This parameter is from the machine definition, and needs to be accessed in a different way than NCI parameters.

 

In the pmachineinfo$ postblock, make sure this line is not commented out:

      if prmcode$ >= 17000 & prmcode$ < 18000, result = fprm(17000) #Run the parameter table for Machine Definition Parameters 

then, in fprmtbl 17000 table, type something like this:

         17435   chuck_loc     #Chuck Location

That should get what you want.  (After you define the variable you want to use, of course.)

 

HTH

[The Cathedral]

That line is not in my post, nor is the table. It's a post by Postability so it's possible that it's binned.

 

I managed to make a work around; the only reason I needed it is for pick-off operations on our sub-spindled Okumas. Since I used a modified Misc-Ops > stock transfer operation, I just pulled the parameter from there. It's not an ideal solution but it got the job done.

[crazy^millman]

If you email Dave and tell him you would like access to that part of the post he will move it from the binned area to the un-binned area.

 

HTH