Can you post any example of custom drill cycle so I can see how is done. thanks

(Lathe) I have seen some examples you have posted before, but I still have trouble with the post. I am trying to get custom drilling cycle to be same as a peck drill cycle, with one exception. I want to have it come to a retract position after every peck, dwell, and then rapid to a clearance point then peck again etc… [drill cycle 10] 1. "Custom cycle 10" 2. "Feed rate" 3. "Dwell" 4. "Clearance..." 5. "Retract..." 6. "Depth..." 7. "1st peck" 8. "Subsequent peck" 9. "Peck clearance" 10. "Retract amount" 11. "Shift" After adding this to my .TXT file I don’t get every option to show when selecting drill cycle 10. Can you tell me why? Is there a certain order these options have to be in, in order to show on the form? Can you guys help me with this? How do I write this drill cycle?

Hi Paul We have USB dongle and I have mine attached to my car keys, but I also have a tree year old that likes to play with the keys and if dongle is in my laptop that red light attract his attention every time he passes by . I wish it would burn out or something. One night before going to bed I found dongle in garbage. Back to Mastercam versions, I just got of the phone with my local reseller and there is educational version but only for institutions no for individuals, And “Home study” aka Demo version if free so I order one for now

I use single point inserts – all the time unless necessary. 1. Rough +.01 on OD 2. Thread 3. Finish OD to major dia. cut front and back chamfer 4. Repeat thread only one pass full depth (two passes for stainless steel) This action pushes burr in thread direction on back chamfer and kick out burr in opposite direction on front chamfer. Than here is secret: Cut back chamfer first not OD in tapered motion approach back chamfer and recut back chamfer. (Second threading op caused burr to be kicked out in threading direction) than pull up change to G41 and cut OD and front chamfer coming from opposite direction (in Z+ Direction).over same path as before. This action cuts burr on front chamfer. I NEVER deburr threads, touch it up little bit with gray scotch brite it’s all it takes to get burrless thread.

Thanks Jimmy That worked. Oh one more thing Jimmy, Is there a education version of the software. I would like to own my own copy. Reason I am asking is that now I have to carry company’s dongle back and fort from work and I assume educational version would be chipper since I wouldn’t be making profit from it, instead I be using it for educational purpose. (My own).

How do I change C-axis output for drill canned cycles? We can’t use G81, I would like to use Drill/Pack Thanks

"GUI post development tool that enables us to customize our post do do exactly what we want witin reason of course." 1.Start with wizard driven application for some common things and than add more advanced futures as we go along. collect users input and than update post, that would be relatively easy to do. (simple search and replace application.) Separate wizard in three stricture and than define areas you would like changes to occur. Pheader Lthchg Etc. Than ask questions Do you want to unable sequence numbers - yes/no Do you want sequence numbers only at tool change – yes/no Tool coments – yes/no Than let as have source code. So we can do this in our own time and not add to development cost. 2.More control over rapid moves, it make sense to have G00 for moves larger than 1 inch but any smaller moves makes some of machines jump of the floor trying to move 700ipm distance of .200 inch. G98 would be much better with user defined feeds. [ 02-19-2005, 09:52 AM: Message edited by: LackyCam ]

SmartScope Flare 200 http://www.ogpnet.com/ogpVidFlare200.jsp?page=48 There little more then you badget,but is completely automated and 4x faster than any touch probe cmm.

Thanks so much I emailed Mastercam with same question and I got something like “ it can’t be done with out a lot a work” How did you find about that. I have Postprocessor reference guide and I couldn’t find that add-on (z) As for other question here is N1 ( LFINISH DIAMONT 35 DEG )-- lsof ptoolcomment 170 ---lsof ltlchg 170 M98 P1 -- lsof ltlchg 170 T0606-- lsof ltlchg 170 S3000 M03-- lsof prpm 170 N10 X3.55 Z0.0 M8-- lsof ltlchg 170 N12 G01 G99 X2.8 F.002-- llin plinout 172 N14 Z.2508-- llin plinout 174 N16 G98 G42 X3.3086 F150.-- ltlchg0 prapidout 312 N18 Z.1707-- lrapid prapidout 314 N20 G01 G99 Z.0707 F.002-- llin plinout 316 N22 X3.5 Z-.025-- llin plinout 318 N24 Z-.475-- llin plinout 320 N26 X3.4 Z-.525-- llin plinout 322 N28 Z-.7-- llin plinout 324 N30 X4.1-- llin plinout 326 N32 G40 X4.2414 Z-.6293-- llin plinout 328 G97 S3000-- peof pl_retract 330 M98 P1-- peof pl_retract 330 M30-- peof 330 %-- peof 330 Thanks

I have tried to format my X and Z output, right now I get X1. What I want is X1.00 fs2 2 0.4 0.2 #Decimal, absolute, 4/3 place . I tried adding t to end of it (fs2 2 0.4 0.2t ) but now it looks little bit silly since every number is rounded to five decimals. Is there any way I can add zeros only to numbers that don’t have anything after decimal point. This way it makes it more readable. and Why post breaks lines in individual moves what I mean is: N10 X4.5000 Z.5000 M8 ltlchg 1194 N12 G41 X3.1414 F150. lrapid prapidout 1196 (it goes in x than next line in z) N14 Z.1507 lrapid prapidout 1198 N16 G01 G99 Z.0507 F.003 llin plinout 1200 Why not like this: N10 X4.5000 Z.5000 M8 ltlchg 1194 N12 G41 X3.1414 Z.1507 F150. lrapid prapidout 1196 ( both moves in one line) N14 G01 G99 Z.0507 F.003 llin plinout 1200 I can’t understand where is logic behind that ( in the code). lrapid and prapidout are only lines called. Is there any way I could get post not to brake compensation moves. Machine manual recommends that all compensation moves are made in non-cutting move in both directions. Thanks

I got it like this, very easy to find anything and it looks neat. O0000 (MGB B12323 HOU. 1ST OPER.) G97 M98P1 N1(OD GROOVE RIGHT ) M98 P1 T0101 S2000 M03 N10 X3.4 Z.015 M8 N12 G01 G99 X1.85 F.006 etc...... N68 X2.222 Z-.789 N70 X2.7 F.03 G97 S2000 M98 P1 N2(DRILL 1. DIA.) M98 P1 T0202 S2000 M03 N10 X0. Z.29 M8 N12 G98 Z.14 F150. N14 G01 G99 Z-1.5004 F.01 N16 G98 Z.29 F150. G97 S2000 M98 P1 N3(ID ROUGH ) M98 P1 T0303 S2500 M03 N10 X1.98 Z.102 M8 N24 G71 U.075 R.05 N26 G71 P28 Q28 U-.02 W.01 F.014 N28 G01 G99 Z-.75 F.014 N30 M99 N36 M99 G97 S2500 M98 P1 N4(ID FINISH )