boschert cnc punch press

[cherokeechief79]

our metalfab shop has a compact 750 press by this company.

it has a small turret with a few different shaped punches.

you can program simple things on the screen of the machine but it would take forever to program something very complex.

I thought it would accept a dxf file if I created it in mc but after talking to the company they said it wont.

can mastercam output code that this machine will read?

they claim it can accept a program from a cam system that would output an asci file if it were properly posted.

any ideas?

[Colin Gilchrist]

28 minutes ago, cherokeechief79 said:

our metalfab shop has a compact 750 press by this company.

it has a small turret with a few different shaped punches.

you can program simple things on the screen of the machine but it would take forever to program something very complex.

I thought it would accept a dxf file if I created it in mc but after talking to the company they said it wont.

can mastercam output code that this machine will read?

they claim it can accept a program from a cam system that would output an asci file if it were properly posted.

any ideas?

What does the format of the ASCII code file look like? I've built Posts for some very weird machines before. The Post is just a translator. You need to know what kind of "input" is needed in the form of some kind of tool path from Mastercam, and what the "output" should look like, based on that input.

[CEMENTHEAD]

On 10/3/2018 at 4:22 PM, Colin Gilchrist said:

and what the "output" should look like

tru .. need to know the OUTS before you put the IN in.