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boring bar retract before going home
JAMMAN replied to Pete Thomson's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
I have a retract hardcoded in my post for each lathe. There is a way to do it with entry/exit points but I have never used it. Another method I use when the retract needs to be more than I hardcoded is to draw a small dummy line at the end I.D. outside the part and do a second chain in the finish path. If the line is only .05 long or so you might not even notice thepunk move. -
Their website would lead you to think they are the greatest and the only way. Never heard of them till now .
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This is a fairly large lathe with a 15" chuck. It is now for sale. If I can't drip feed I can't use it. Anyone roughing out castings?
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Happens all the time to me in X6. I'm usually in a pickle when I see it and time constraints keeps me from figuring out a cure. It does it to me even when there is a tool holder, I define a tool holder for every tool when I do blades because I have no other form of verification besides the one in mastercam.
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That was 3 jobs and 1 wife ago for me. I don't even remember participating in this thread.
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I get my unusual stuff from here: http://www.phoenixspecialty.com/
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Page won't load. Must be on the same server as this board.
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I finish with 1/8 ball nose 3 degree taper to 1/4 shank.
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Ebay or Craigslist. I personally don't know of any specific tooling sales sites.
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Floors are actually the hardest part, I finally got handy with them after about the 5th different design. Several little tricks, so many I had to take screenshots and put together a reference on paper. Making it (the floor) smooth don't necessarily increase performance or efficiency on the turbo. I use .05 stepovers, takes a lot less time identical results. No blade expert here either.
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Watchdog, spindle orientation problems
JAMMAN replied to mule13's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
If you are trying to use Mastercam with this machine you truly will be alone as AGM only supports their "stone cam" program. I ended up having to write my own post processor and never did get the polishing sequences totally correct, I had to merge polishing programs written in stone cam. The watchdog error frankly could be anything, if Pete is still at AGM he should be able to give you some pointers. I programmed for 4 masterstones, and had one that "watchdogged" out on me, ended up being an encoder. Another one kept on giving errors and it was a loose connector inside the control cabinet. -
Multiple surfaces into one surface ?
JAMMAN replied to Cbgstyleshindsbock's topic in Industrial Forum
Not meaning to hijack but I use net surface all the time, I just threw some points down and tried this in excitement being it would make my life easier in many ways..... no surface appeared. -
Found this: To set the CNC up for drip feed: Set "Tape mode" on. Dripfeed facility on the Fanuc must be enabled. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Hmmmm. I see no tape mode. Send the program from the computer, then press Cycle Start on the Fanuc. To pause dripfeed, turn the Feedrate override to 0%.
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Thanks dude, hoping for a miracle. Anyone that serviced these things should either be retired or passed on. It's about to kill me working on it! I got angry at the GM today and crabbed at him for a session for buying the thing. No more purchases unless it's inside the decade. Just like our Mazak, fadal and our other mori, they were in the shop for 6 months before we started making money with them, and even then I pulled every rabbit out of my hat I knew how, and some new ones.
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Revisiting this, I now have a new LANCNC that talks to the controller just fine. I have put small programs in and did test runs no problem. Now on to the next hurdle in manipulating this 26 year old dinosaur. Small was the key word. First program I tried to actually cut with was too large for the memory. I doubled the step size, still too large. SO I need to drip feed. Anyone dripfeeding an ancient fanuc 10T? So far ellison nor calmotion can come up with anything. I know the lancnc can dripfeed but will the controller do it?
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OK I just remembered, only one was an 8601 and we upgraded it to a S10 due to the half a floppy memory constraints. The rest were S10's.
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Dude I used to run 4 intermac masterstones. AB8601, all mine had was BNC connectors and I wish you luck because it was years ago in the MC7 days. The guys at AGM were not a lot of help at the time, but things might have improved since way back.
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Programming a 1/2 NPTF pipe thread
JAMMAN replied to nussie08's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
Do I see a .ods extension? Cool It will save in XLS format too, and reads XLS just fine. -
So you milled some pockets them wiped them out? Looks like a fast machine!
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Can you drip feed? I remember doing a mold for a turbine housing, surface finish radial in MC9 on my anilam before I got rid of it. I had to split it in like 9 or 11 pcs to get it to work and each segment took about 6 minutes to load in memory.
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Interesting take on this. What machine has memory that small that it would be necessary? I remember having to worry about program size back in the anilam crusader M days but now......
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If I can do them on a Fadal VMC15 with a calmotion TRT160, anything would be better. Just takes longer. It takes me about 7 hours to make a similar wheel, I made the one in my avatar.
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I use it on my blades, we don't own a toolpath verification program. I would rather deal with false collisions (which I do get) than having something really crash on the machine. It isn't perfect but it will tell you when a tool violates a surface and if you have your holder right it will tell you if the holder hits or not. I use it to determine minimum tool length out of the holder. I shorten it till it hits something in sim then add .125 or so.
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And if you have to regenerate a bunch of ops, you have to do it linearly. You can't just select all and regen, it will fail every time. Or at least it does for me.
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LOL @ "violating the vanes" I know that feeling for sure. Looks great, did you use Blade Expert or just wing it?
