With the Mazatrol tooldata, G43,H and D codes are not neccesarry

If Mastercam X would go into Demo mode whenever the HASP isnt connected....there would be 83924 extremely satisfied customers!

I think that is the difference of how the 1 Line G71 and 2 Line G71 works. Something about FS15 format or something. 1 line G71 is the older style.

Now i know that there is a company in Saint Joseph Michigan that is "seriously screwed" if the programmer leaves. Looks like job security to me. Dont get me wrong i picked up a few idea's for myself, but damn at least label the variables incase somebody needs to figure them out one day. lol

I dont know about X yet, but that is a pretty cool tip. thanks

nice tip charlie

you could just try and test all the combinations of the #1000 variables and see what changes depending on what pallet is in. ex. put pallet 1 in the machine, and write a program like; #101=#1001 #102=#1002 #103=#1003 etc. then switch pallets and run it again and see what changes. hopefully something does and you can check for that.

What do you mean by Tool Info? Can you be more specific

Should the original work offset be set to zero before this runs? What workoffset is active when you run this? You might want to make a check to be sure it is before it runs.

for V9 open up the CVIEW.PRM file that is in your chooks folder and change the number after "1." to a "1", its probably a zero now. Dont know if its the same in X

if you already have toolpaths done in english and you switch to metric none of the toolpath settings update. So as long as you dont toolpath before you switch its not so bad. otherwise your reselecting everything or putting "in" behind every value in your ops.

As a semi-hijack side note. Would it be possible for a post to be setup to output mm or inch through misc integer?

quote: We pay Maintanence on this Lathe seat too and what are we getting? umm Translators? Until matss comes out, i guess we are just prepaying for later.

That example is for a mazak. If you leave the "P" out of the "M98H99" it will search for N99 in the program calling the sub. Leaving out the "P" is what makes it a local sub call. Fanucs cant do it simply.

I have always considered a local sub program as residing in the main program. The subs are contained after the M30. So you can use subs all you want and you only load one program. As Tim explained its pretty easy to setup your post for this, doing just as he said. ex. % O100; ; ; T1M6(SPOT) G0G90G54X0Y0M3S500 G43H1Z2.0 G99G81Z-2.5R.25F100.K0 M98H90(jumps to line N99) G80(returns here after M99) G0G91G28Z0 M1 ; ; T2M6(DRILL) G0G90G54X0Y0M3S1000 G43H2Z2.0 G99G83Z-25.R.25F134.K0 M98H90(jumps to line N99) G80(returns here after M99) G0G91G28Z0 M30 ; ; N99(HOLE POSITION SUB) X0Y0 X35. Y20. X50.Y50. M99 ; ; %

Fanuc needs to fix/add this to the controls. Local sub program calls are the shiz. Mazak,Yasnak i80m,Fadal,Haas can all do this.

Fadals will go to the toolchange position and orient. Mazaks will ignore the call.

Agreed

Try the Depth cuts box and use the Tapered walls option.

Ive had that problem before and what i did was rotate the line by .001 degree and it "fixed" the problem.

Eia monitor curser to block you want to start on restart non-modal cycle start It will not search for modals when you do this so be sure to start in a safe spot.

I called my reseller to ask about get the Version X demo disk. He told me they dont have any and to call back in a few weeks. WTF?

No "%" signs in the program.

were i work cell phones arent allowed, but it depends who you are. We have a Hard start-Hard stop time. This began when we started our "Lean" implementation. If we start a little early or stay a little late we need to tell the boss about it and he can ask his boss if we should get paid for it. I think the company is coming out ahead on this but most people now drop everything as soon as the bell rings, and they dic around until the bell rings. We used to be on flex time, as long as we got our 45 hours in by friday we were fine.

our shop let the maint. expire. now it asks for an access code. oh well