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I have had a machine loose it's cmos memory. We have replaced it's battery. But some of the parameters have gone blank. The machine is a Mori lathe SL-25 with a Yasnac controll. Total shutdown without the parameters. The page is totally blank. Has anyone ever had this happen to them? I have contacted Mori and they said they will try to look them up.Been waiting & waiting & waiting If anyone has one of these lathes I sure would appreciate a listing of the parameters from #6030 to 6049. We have every other machine backed up but our files for this machine are corrupt. Any insights or help would sure be appreciated. Thanks, Jeff

Hey guys, Drslayer here. Thanks for the input. Chris, I will try the fifo buffer and see if that works. beej, I havn't beenm at my desk for a while and I will check on Tue. Jeff

GCODE What do you think of the ergonomics? I have a Spaceball 5000 on loan till my Space Pilot comes in and Kingloui may have a point. The Pilot does look a bit uncomfortable. What do you think??? Anybody else have one yet???

Hey everyone. I'm looking to replace my old space puck and I was wanting a Spaceball 5000 till I saw the new Space pilot. It looks really cool and I want one....bad. But, I would like to know if anyone has gotten their hands on one yet. linky

I got the same error here too. Maybe his computer is still sleeping

Doug. find this in your post and change it to NC "($", progname, ".MIN%)" I think it is in 2 places. HTH Jeff

Go Navy had it right. must 1st hit mem button. Then graph/setting button twice. go down to disable hold/run button, hit righr arrow button. then hit enter. then hit "Y" This works on my TM2. have to do it every time I fire it up. Can do it permantly, but that will viod warrenty. HTH Jeff

Are you talking about the safety switch on the side of the console?

J Coulston: I have read a little on the search you spoke of and will have to look into it a bit further, for now I did as you recomended. Program complete then sort by tools. This worked for me now. Storkman: That is kind of what I am doing now.However, I am not using views. I have copied the top wcs for each vice position, then after creating a tool path I go back into the parameters of each tool and select the the wcs I want. Thankyou both for your input. Jeff

Hello everyone. I was wondering can I assign a WCS to a group of entities? Such that any tool I use on each different group would automatically switch to the corresponding WCS? The reason for my question if I have two Kurt double vices and I do various operations in each of the four different locations and picking geometry and keeping the different WCS assignments can get a little confusing. Any advice would sure be welcome. Thanks Jeff

I run them with high pressure coolant. They last forever that way.

That works great. Thankyou very much. Jeff

When I analyze an entity, it tells me there are tool path refs. What is an easy to find out which tool this entity is accociated with??

Jay, Just sent mine in via paypal. Thanks for all your hard work. Jeff

Thankyou everyone. Sounds like the Fanuc is the way to go. I sure appreciate all your input.

Jayson, Without a doubt, I'll kick in. I've only been involved with this forem for a short time now and I wish I had discovered it years ago!

Hell everyone. We are looking for a new machine. Quite possibly a Mori-Seki. I understand they offer two different controls, a Fanuc and a Mitchu. We do some surfaced parts a o lot of small production runs, mainly in aluminum. What are your opinions of the two different controls offered? Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jeff

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Jeff, I have split programs between the two dir's before and I had to call each one up individually to run them. There is a way to select a prog and designate a path to the second dir and run the subs from there, but the program select is quite tricky and the last time I tried it I couldn't get it to work. Have you done this?n How do u do it?

Randle, That is what I am looking for, the ability to call up the program from the control. I didn't know if that was possible. Jeff, is there another option other than going thru OKUMA? The price is now $6k and 6 months I'm dealing with 32k memory in both of my machines. I must say that MC likes to generate a lot of code. I'm getting real good at subs. But incremental can bite you in the but alot. Is it possible to modify my post so incremental subs will always have an absolute Z move?

I'm just looking to run a large program due to low memory.

Good morning all. I am looking into having a dnc link installed into one of our okuma mills. I am wondering how well that works. Do you have to start the prog from the pc every time or will the machine call for the prog to be uploaed. The reason I am asking is I want to run production with this setup and I am wondering how much trouble it will be for the "chuck monkeys" to operate. If any of you guys have this, I would appreciate your input. Thanks. Jeff

I agree on the .1 increment button on the HAAS machines. What I would like to disable is the jog lock button on ours. The guys lock this on when traveling in the negative Z axis and usually crash my tools. I have done a little reading in the parameters and have not found it yet. Who orgaanized those parameters anyway? Does anybody know offhand how to disable this feature? The guys at out tool supply house would love for me not to fix this. Any advice would greatly appreciated. Thanks Jeff

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