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

Oh sorry MC9

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.

Hello from Michigan !!

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

Thanks all: James I always ask my reseller, but this sounded like an easy fix for the great minds here. I would of had to send my Mc9 file, my post, and txt file, and my generated nc file without edits, then one with. Also normally their backed up so it would of taken a month to get it back. I'm sure there is more to change, but I wont know until I get more familiar with the machine. This was a quick fix, with a quick question. Thank you it works great. Frank

Hi All: We just got our new Makino A81 delivered. I'm trying to get the post edited to work right with this machine. It sounds strange but the nc file must only use H1's (tool offset) and D2's(cutter comp)for every tool in the rack. It actually sounds pretty scary, is anyone familiar with this ? I was able to change the post to only use H1's but I can't find where I have to change the D's to only use D2, can somebody help. Thanks, Frank

Nevermind got it from my dealer. Thanks

Hey all: I know I'm not suppose to do this...so let the flaming begin We ordered a Makino A81 back in Feb and I immediatly contacted my Mastercam dealer for a post, and was told I would be put in a line as order was recieved, which is totaly acceptable. Now we have the machine, it's getting wired today, and the boss would like a little test program written for it. I'm sure when I call my dealer they would be able to get right on it, but I was hoping to get something quick. I would try something I already have, but we know absolutly nothing about this machine, so tweaking an existing program is impossible. Thanks, Frank

Bill check your mail ! Thanks, Frank

Did you get it ??

Hey all: (Still here) We have a Hitachi Seki, that's 1 year old, and we are having a Makino delivered next week. They both have a Fanuc 16M control. Before these machines our best has been 12M and very slow. We have been stumbling through running the Hitachi, good parts but scary. My question is schooling comes with the Makino, and the boss doesn't want to send anybody, he doesn't think there's a big difference between the old and new. I personally think there is a big difference, but since I'm used to running the old, could someone point out the +'s of schooling for the new. Thanks, Frank

I just put C5-R on the ftp site...in the MC9 folder. This is the logo that I've put on the racing corvette's valve cover. Good luck Frank

Thanks all for the replies. Yeah Brian, if there was some kind of reason for it, I could maybe understand. As of right now and always, if the print comes in Metric, I draw it in metric,save it as a metric file for reference. Make a copy and scale the part, and run it on the machine. When inspection gets it they check the part to the metric print....everybody's happy To me this is just a power play, and he has all the power. My advise means absolutly nothing.

Well you guys must not have that majic wand, that you wave over Mastercam, and make it all better. IN METRIC