fadal post

[Scott Bond]

Hi all

How do I remove the g8's from our fadal post?

Scott

[Thad]

Scott,

 

I would just do a search for G8 or sg8 (or sg08?). I'm surprised that they are there to begin with, unless you guys added it yourself. I've had to force a G8 in our posts because the 'out of the box' post didn't have one.

 

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

 

Thad

[Scott Bond]

Thanks Thad

All done

[Jayson Kramer]

Scott why are you taking them out if I may ask?

[Finecut]

You guys are lucky. I have to put in G10's on most of our outputs. Fadal, okuma, ect

Just one I wont. Our new Kitumara with all the bells including probing, pallet changer,4th ...

and a 16I control. this one is fun to pgm

 

 

Finecut

[Scott Bond]

Hi Jay

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Scott why are you taking them out if I may ask?

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We have Farmers for set up guys.

[crazy^millman]

Well Scott so I guess they are throwing quality out the window huh and going to start measuring everything like on a farmer throwing horse shoes huh close enough is ok. I have found on the Fadal's taking out the G8 does increase the cycle times a little but on anything over 50 ipm beat the machine and really effects the surface finishes if doing 3d work. I guess unless they are using the AFF function now avaible on the Fadals they will be not happy in the long run with the results. Just my .02 worth is all.

[Peccator]

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I've had to force a G8 in our posts because the 'out of the box' post didn't have one.

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+1

[John T.]

If you look on the first page of your toolpath parameters, there is a button with check box called "misc values" (I think...its kind of automatic for me now, don't really READ what some of these things say anymore). If that is checked (on), click on the button and look on the left column of choices. There is a line that says something about G9/G8, with a value of 0 for G9, and 1 for G8. Change this as necessary, and it should set that as needed in the post. You have to set that for each toolpath.

 

For 2D stuff, we leave it off, 3D has it on. G8 is needed for smooth surfaces. If you use nurb splines instead of arcs in a 2D surface, you can try G8 there also, but I'd replace that spline with a arc if possible.

 

John

[crazy^millman]

John I hard coded our post to output this all the time:

code:

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G8 

G4 P2000

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We also do about 95% 3d stuff around here so that 5% of the time doesn't hurt to have it do it nice.

 

[ 02-17-2004, 03:56 PM: Message edited by: Millman^Crazy ]

[John T.]

Millman,

We have a broader mix of 2D/3D than you do, so we change that option as needed.

 

John

[crazy^millman]

Yeah is we had that mix I problay would also. just goes to show how what works good for one application is not always the best fit another one.