transform is not really my problem its more of getting my b axis cocked on 45 degrees to mill the flat

thanks slepy, can i do this with a 2d wire frame or do i need to create some sort of surface? if possible a example would be great. I would post what i'm tring to do on the ftp site but am having problems uploading. another xp/it problem. thanks

thanks for the reply. hopefully i'll be spining part tomarrow.

I finally got a post for our mill turn machine and was wondering if there was a easy way of programming somthing like a 45 degree flat on the face of a part in 6 places. I have done this a little but i thing there has got to be a easier way. to get it to work for me I create a solid than my 6 flats and have to change my construction plain for each flat. Is there a simpler way? any help appreciated.

we get our new haas sl-30 today. does anyone know if a standard fanuc post will work on this machine?

nice sheet. I would love 1 for lathe also

jmm, if you select the tool and then go to draw tool if the face of your tool is at the "z" orgin line you should be all set, hth

chris thanks for the reply. 2 turrets at 1 time is to many moving parts for me

thanks stork that did it.

quote: pinch turning I've never heard of this. what is it?

Brett Thomas i beleive is currently working on a post for our mt-253. i figure if our reseller outsourced the job to him he must be good.

lathe.set

when I change the name of my nc file why does the set-up sheet keep the old file name?

i just looked at that. i might be easily amused but that is cool. I hope i can remember it. thanks a bunch

dwsz71 that did the trick thanks alot. I guess i am confused on assigning string variables. where did the 20110 come from?

ron it is coming from the lathe library (i'm pretty sure) this is what I see in the post for the insert information #Tool note stoper #String for tool notes stinsert " INSERT - "#String for tool notes stinsert2 #String for tool notes # Tool Comment / Manual Entry Section # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- pparameter$ #Information from parameters if prmcode$ = 10000, stoper = sparameter$ if prmcode$ = 20103, stinsert2 = sparameter$ ptoolcomment #Comment for tool tnote = abs(t$) toffnote = tloffno$ strtool$ = ucase(strtool$) stoper = ucase(stoper) stinsert2 = ucase(stinsert2) i'm just lost but am probably overlooking somthing simple thanks

I am tring to get my tool comment line to output the tool holder information but can’t figure out how. Right now it looks like this which is close ( ROUGH FACE & TURN TOOL - 3 OFFSET - 3 INSERT - CNMG-432 ). What I would like it to look like is ( ROUGH FACE & TURN TOOL - 3 OFFSET - 3 HOLDER - DCLNR-204D INSERT - CNMG-432 ). my post has the following line. "(",*strtool$," "*tnote,"",*toffnote," ",*stinsert,"",*stinsert2,")", e$ does anyone know what i need to add? thanx

Thad is always tring to take the easy way out

code breaker glad to hear it. good luck in your new endever

thanks james i'll give them a call monday

I can't beleive i have to ask this but. We bought a used mori mt-253 5 axsis lathe. unfortinitly I got no books and no trining so I am confused about using the tool probe. With the B axsis at 0 I have some tools that are to long to touch. I can turn the turret to B-90.0 and touch but the ofset is wrong when i go back to "0.0" anyone with a clue on using the tool probe that could help I would appreciate it. I hope i'm explaining this half way decent. Thanks in advance

We havn't received ours yet but I heard a rumor they were shipping on 9-15.

once again no one who needs to know is getting the info around here. If some one could email me the info i wouls appreciate it.

if there is one I hope my boss dont find out about it.

works good here also