Just talked to a guy where I was working and he asked me what I was doing to remove the decimals from the canned sequence N lines?? G71 P100 Q200 U100 W50 D1000 F.01 N100. G0 Z.1 ETC..... I just left there a week ago and NEVER had this problem. I know there is a setting on the NC Output page to output decimals on the sequence numbers but he assures me that it is not checked. I had the mach defs all locked and was the only one with the password till the day I left because of the multiple times people had messed with them when there was no need to. He said it is doing it on all the posts but one. I had separate machine, control and posts files for each machine so I am a little stumped as to what is causing this?? any ideas??

Can anyone give me some info on getting the toolchange arm back to origin on a Daewooo DMV?

I tried it in the back plot but it didnt work. edit... ok I take it back it, tried it again and it did work. thanks again Eric... still like wear better!!

checking the "comp in control" on the verify settings page did help. Thanks Eric. It still will not do it in back plot tho.. guess Im gonna have to see about changing this if Im here for the long term.... Thanks guys..

Thanks guys, I would refer to use wear but as I said I am at a new shop and they have been doing this forever and all the programs and operators are used to the control method. Too soon to make waves so I'm trying to conform for now. why wont MC calculate and veify correctly. seems like something it should be able to do. I hate not being able to be sure at my computer before I send it out to the shop! anyone else have any suggestions??

I havent done any comp in the control programming and I am at a new shop that programs this way. The backplot and verify are giving my exaggerated tool movements but the code looks right. Is this normal? Is there something I can do to correct this? thanks for any advice Ken

I got it, thanks again. I must have been typing something wrong. Monday!! woo-hoo!

Thanks so much! You Rock!! Whats the username and passowrd again? or which folder is it in? I can get on thru the forum but get asked for the username and password when I click the link.

nope nothing on the control for any codes. anyone have a sample snippet from a fan-518 I could peek at to see if it will work?

unfortunately the books are long gone and I browsed thru the control and didnt find anything, should they be there in a 10 year old machine?

Can anyone tell me where I can get a list of the M and G codes for a Mori SL300 with a MSC-518 control. I need to do some live tooling work and some of the codes in the post are not right.

well Don what a blessing it is to know I am not the only one today. I am having the same trouble on a trunnion and I was just getting ready to post it. I have 8 cutouts at 45deg and the tool must stay parallel to the front plane. I can get it to move in A and orient in B but I cannot get it to rotate in the cut. I cant post the file till tomorrow but would like to see what response you get. sounds like a similar problem.. My brain is toast on this one. trying to hard and I know I am getting way off base!

ok guys it was a joke! (its a big joke around here anyhow) since you picked that one apart how bout this, we had a new engineering manager that was asking the difference between a horizontal mill and a vertical. we told him on the vert the spindle is vertical and on on the horiz it is horizontal. brought him out into the shop to look at machines and he says "so this is a horizontal?" NO! that is a lathe! LMAO!!! it was a horizontal lathe so i guess he was half right.

Just so everyone is clear! On the lathe the part spins and the tool is stationary. On the mill the tool spins and the part is stationary.

It is a great resource for getting up to speed in a short time. it made the change to MCX very easy. They have V9 thru X2 videos and are adding new videos all the time. So in reality by the time your subscription is up you end up with more than you originally purchased. Not like buying a video course or a book. And unlike a class you can go back and see it again as needed. Money well spent INHO

Thanks guys, I am outta here today( thank goodness!!) and wont be back till Thursday (wooo-hooo!!) but I will test this then. Looks great!! Ken

Thanks app guy, so the only way to define is in the post? I was hoping for something a little more user friendly so I could be more specific when numbering. I have a couple machine down here with a ton of programs that I cant delete and they use all different kinds of numbers. Putting a new one in is a task when I try to stick to my naming convention.

How can I give a specific starting numbers to my subs? thanks, Ken

Chris, you are right it does output a canned but it is a G72 and I prefer G75. Good news is that since I have become alot better at editing my posts I know I can change this to be whatever I want. DUH!! Thanks, I got so used to doing it the other way because I could make it work I just stuck with it.

connermac, I have used them but not often. I almost alway rough with a larger radius insert and finish with a smaller so the canned doesnt work for that. I also like to have more control and the finish function lets me be more specific. I would really like to see a canned facing cycle instead of having to use the canned groove.

Personally I use the canned all the time. its all in the way you chain them. I have never used the quick toolpaths so Im not much help there. But dont be to worried about the canned, once I figured it out it works great for me. I have 100's of postable lathe programs in MCAM. Not to say I didnt have my share of problems along the way, I learned lathe long before I got on this forum and I just always thought it must of been my error and kept plugging away at it until I got what I needed. Although I guess if I figured out how to do it wrong and they made it work right I'd be all screwed up. lol This is all just single spindle and turret 2-5 axis stuff though, i am not sure about anything beyond that.

Streaming Teacher is great. I was flying around in X2 once I signed up. click here birdman welcome to the forum!

I was just looking and I had to go back to MC9 to find the folder. Not sure what happened to them in the MCX-MCX2 install. Do you have MC9? If so look in there. Maybe someone on here know what happened to the sample files.

Phil, its no so bad a place to be stuck. now if I could make a decent wage so I didnt have to drive 50 miles to work it would be perfect.

Take a look in the sample programs in your MC lathe folder. Its pretty easy once you get started with it.