Hello, We are having trouble just drilling and tapping, I think we have the surfacing worked out. Can anyone please send me a Posted drill cycle for this machine. It's a KR199 6 axis. We are working with Axsys but having trouble figuring out how to drill and tap properly with the post??? Thanks,

i know this is an old post, but can someone explain what a dataserver is an how it works with the Makino?

Hey All: We are in a panic ! Our Greco, that we load our old K & T's just went on the blink. Our Tech person is gone for 2 weeks........and we can't find the manual to figure out where to find the settings on the machine. It's a Horizontal KT 200 with a Gemini Control. If anybody knows a solution please respond. Thanks, Frank

Hey All: We are in a panic ! Our Greco, that we load our old K & T's just went on the blink. Our Tech person is gone for 2 weeks........and we can't find the manual to figure out where to find the settings on the machine. It's a Horizontal KT 200 with a Gemini Control. If anybody knows a solution please respond. Thanks, Frank

Hi All: A quick question to all the experts. We allways run all our jobs on the horizontal machines, off the center of the rotary, and have made subplates for the rotory that has a 1" doweled center pin, that our fixtures set on. The 2 new machines we've gotten in reciently, have side bumps on the tables, do you ever use those to bump the side of a fixture, to calculate to the center, or what are they used for ? Thanks and happy holidays, Frank

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I can do it in the tool parameter, but for safety's sake it would be much better in the post. JM that link is to change my post to where it is now.

Hey all: I have a little tweaking to do on a new post I have for a horizontal Makino. The post I am using is a good one except for it generating, cutter comp, the same as the tool number. I need it to always be D2. I found this in my post, and hopefully I'm looking in the right spot, can anybody, push me in the right direction. What do I change ? Thanks, pccdia #Cutter Compensation #Force Dxx# if prv_cc_pos <> cc_pos & cc_pos, prv_tloffno = c9k sccomp if cc_pos, tloffno

I went to the 4 oclock at D & B X is really something. I just have to talk to the boss here to get it. Chuck I asked Ryan where you were, and he said you moved on. Then I asked why did I hear you in the promo video, on X. And he told me you were just contracted to do that. What's up.

If you create your arc in say the top plane, then go to the front plane for machining, and choose contour, your post should automatically select the proper G code.

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I really don't want to have to repost this program, it's been running a couple of years, and changes don't go thru me. I'll have to use the editor to get it right. The other problem will be that the Makino doesn't take the G95 for tapping, which I thought was a great feature on the Hitachi, so that will also have to be changed. Thanks, Frank

We also have the pro 3. And it was explained to us that we could use just the fanuc part of the control, to use the regular offsets, but would lose a lot of the pro 3 features, like defining heavy tools in the rack, so the machine will automatically slow down the tool change, for one instance. What concerns me with this machine always using H1's and D2's is I can't transfer any programs from our Hitachi Seki to the Makino without redoing the whole program.

Wow it looks foreign to me. Is that above an actual program ? See if I get this right. The tool management is for automatically changing tools after one has hit a defined number of cycles, or parts. Then the next tool does the same and it picks the original back up..... Thanks

The machine has tool life management, but I'm not real familiar with it, and the great minds here don't want to use the free schooling to learn it. How's the learning curve ? Thanks, Frank