Thanks

Check the baud rate is not too fast, or too slow possibly to buffer enough of the program.

You can probably call the dealer to transfer the physical hasp. 

But if you got a hasp from your new version and have the old one I suppose you can hand it to some one as long as you don't violate any itar regulations. 

It came with a 6mm ball we had a 2 mm probe from our other machine and I tried it out.

I calibrates fine and seems to perform ok. I slowed down the feed in the settings program just to be safe.

This is almost always caused by the gouge check shortening your lead in because it was too long or the radius was too big or in certain cases when you chain an arc it can happen.

Do you happen to know if this is a pay for option on FANUC or you just need to enable a parameter?

No problem.

Contour is good if you have a straight line cut so you can take advantage of the micro lift and back feed or if you have equal stock on all sides.

Set the holes as an air region and use dynamic mill.

Posted out a circle mill and got an error during posting. It said arc converted to line, contact your reseller.

But I dug deeper and realised I had an over lap and spring passes. Removing the overlap fixed it.

On pocket cycle you get a warning about spring passes not being output because of an overlap when the path is generated. 

right click, open with choose default program?

23 hours ago, huskermcdoogle said:

I am sitting here wondering why they would have a different M-code for rigid tapping.  Then it occurred to me that you could use it such that the second S command is the retract speed.  Through a little math and some g10's in the m135 macro or in the ladder, you could easily alter the tap speed retract parameters.

So say you program. 

S1000

M135 S2000

It would go in at 1000 and out at 2000.

Can anyone confirm if this is the case?  If not, I'm gonna set up a machine this way in the future.

 

 

Normally on fanuc you can use j2000 in the tap line and that is the retract rate. 2000 is just an example Any speed really

I used it once because I was able to rough a pocket with an angled floor and finish the wall with cutter comp

Make sure there wasn't material gummed up and stuck to the tap as well.

7 minutes ago, PcRobotic said:

 

Hi Colin,
   Here is what I've found.  I called SELWAY people and they "GAVE UP" because the brand new machine as MATSUURA company they really have issue with tapping NO GO becomes GO when we have "GUMMY" material such as ALUM 3003, COPPER... The sent nearly 5 guys and spent 3 days with us, here is what they came up with their final decision:

1. We will modify the TAPPING CYCLE MACRO inside the PARAMETER of the control to match up FEED DOWN and RAPID UP at the same speed when tapping.
2. Vertical Matsuura VX1000 using M29 tapping cycle where as 5 Axis using M80, they could not modified it to M80 like the way of 5-AXIS, Horizontal M89.
3. In the mean time they told me they would comeback with 2 more application engineers just for the tapping issue which is also happened on 5-AXIS too.


We tested the same program, same 1/4-20 cut tap with the same gummy material on MAKINO and it worked real fine.

The speed and feeds we tested was:
M29 S200
G84 G98 R.125 Z-.500 F10.

Thank you for your feedback, Colin.   

Can you humor me and tell me what parameter 5200 bit 0 is set to and what the number in  5210 is

On 11/29/2017 at 3:46 AM, newbeeee said:

One day I'll figure out how to fix this

You can Try to substitute y axis if you have enough x travel

This is a 100% guess but if you set rotary axis page to rotary axis positioning will it spit the right code out?

What you can't do is use a un-A guage to check a unj thread 

Yes, but a simple 3 axis machine may only need coolant and taping changes.

More axes and parameters need more in-depth mods and logic.

That cycle is called fine bore shift and there is a shift value field.

There are parameters in the control of the machine also that change the shift direction so verify it shifts the correct way above the hole

use one way instead of spiral and turn on the filtering 

We use one with and one after if we want both coolants on.

Multiple mcodes is usually an option

In the control panel there should be a mastercam icon , can't remember what it's called.

Go in there and there should be about 5 things and one is to reset the ribbon bar. You will need to restart mastercam

I have done this before but not in x6

ETA, this may have been for the bottom bar that shifted off the screen

I always make curves an a separate level after import. 

I don't use every one but it looks better to me

I also think it's easier to analyze dimensions with the curves

Yours is based off a different post it seems.

Do you have the look ahead on in the machine? 

Are you using an overlap in circle mill?

how fast are you machining?

Your guage idea would depend on what roundness or workmanship spec they call out