Thanks for confirming my suspicions guys. I thought he was talking out the side of his head. Job ran fine, we just decided to try it on a spare part, and after several thread pitches, it still looked like a double thread to us. I milled a knurling tool to hold a standard diamond knurling set using an old insert holder (also milled to fit) and home-made wedges... and for small diameter, we modified a Swiss screw machine tool to fit in the Mori... Thanks for getting my back on an argument we knew we were right on

We have a job we are doing with knurling and have the tool all setup and works great. A neighbor came over and was talking about using left and right hand threads to single point the knurl. We tried it and didn't come out as expected, have any of you guys had experience with it, or even heard of it? Thanks, -John

Is vector majic any good? $8 a month is affordabele

When you get a sample part or a tepmlate from a customer, what's the fastest way to get it into MC? I have been trying a few different things... 1. Make a photocopy, use layers and trace the drawing. This works OK, but is a pain to get into scale sometimes. 2. Trace it on graph paper and pull measurements from a chosen x,y zero. 3. Take multiple measurements and draw. Of course this works good for 2d drawings, or for cutting sheet matal, but is a bit complex/inefficient for large or complicated parts. None of them work good for holding tolerance, and after it's in the program it usually has to be "fudged" in. We don't have the kind of money to buy a plotter, digitizer or probe as we have only been opoen slightly more than a year, but were curious as to how some of you tackle it? Thanks, -John

Thanks FP1 We are probably going to try a dummy program this week.

Yes, I know about aligning them unfortunately We had to put new pins in it when we got it, and I was the one lifting the head back on the machine. We will run practice programs first of course We've got the dwell mastered, we use it for bar feeding all the time, so I hope this will be the same process. My biz partner is the lathe guy, I work on the mill. We were going to call Fanuc, but the calls end up often being longer than the time it takes me to get a reply here We have the turrets set up for one to do the boring, the other to do the facing/turning. I'm sure tool indexing could get ugly

Thanks!!! That was fast, you guys are awesome. We have been able to get both turrets to move simultaniously by lighting both lights, and the manual only shows M codes up to 99. We are making the prototypes at the moment for this job, but that will be a life saver when we are doing the long runs. I will post up if we can't get it from there. Thanks again, -john

We have a Mori dual turret lathe with Fanuc System 11tt, and are tired of switching from head1 and head2 to complete a part that needs to use both turrets. Right now we run 1/2 the part, go to program 2 to finish, then go back to program 1 again to start the next part. I've been through the programing manual with a fine tooth comb and can't figure out how to use both in the same program.(manuals may be incoplete since it was bought used) Any suggestions?

Any one?

I need the com port to open befor sending anything. If I leave the DOS window open after a program (not sending it, but not closing the com port), then hit "read" on the machine, it doesn't alarm. I even tried leaving a DOS window open and sending another program, but get a "com port is being used by another program" from the PC. Is there a way to open the port from MC? It works fine for terminal use. Can I open the terminal then send something?

Tried that.

http://s158.photobucket.com/albums/t87/for...=tempscreen.jpg Yes, that's where I'm sending from. I shortcut from the main menu by pressinf F,N,C.

Chris, I'm not finding "wait for xon/xoff" in the editor.

Fanuc said I can drip-feed.

Yes, but that doesn't seem to have any effect. I have searched all the past threads on the drip feeding, but none have answered my inherent problem. Fanuc sent me a fax with both the hdwr and sftwre connection configurations and I am correct on the cable for software handshaking. The problem is if I hit "read" on the machine in any mode (tape or edit) it alarms because it doesn't think the cable is plugged in. The machine needs some kind of signal present and MC is not giving that signal until a program is already being sent. Thanks for the response