Yea, aluminum! I know for aluminum its not super fast and all. Just showcasing the little machine right now. I know she could take a lot more than whats in the video, just starting out conservatively. I will post some more videos here in a few days and really push it to the limits. Just want to approach it safely and not hurt my little baby. And remember shes only 3hp and 6500rpm max.

Absolutely loving this machine. I've had it about 3 months now. Finally got all the servo ramping and feed rate ramping settings about where they need to be. Max feed rate is like 575ipm for both rapid and feed moves. Now shes deffinitly acheaving that and running very very smooth. Heres a little video I made cutting a little motor mount for a team associated Tc6 Rc car. Took it kinda easy in the video but have to make about 20 of these so I will start bumping everything up and see what she can take. 3/8 3fl endmill 5500rpm 60ipm 8% stepover 3d opticore dynamic core 2d

Then why post up asking what to do?

I'm sure he means machine. Start with surface finish parallel and see if you like the result.

Yea but I found out that the Robodrill uses one of its available axis for the toolchanger. So I think it has to be a 5 axis control in order to have a rotary table.

At this point I would be happy if it was coming with stepper motors! lol!!

Well I got a little good news about the control. I think everything will be ok. I always freak out about things and worry before I actually have a reson to worry. Thanks for you guys help.

Absolutly loving it. Its twice the machine I was expecting it to be. Been running the s#@$ out of it and its still going strong. I figured with only 3hp it I wouldnt be able to push it very hard but it takes whatever I through at it. I cut mostly aluminum and light steel though.

Oh don't you worry, I am the speed master. I currently have one of those Fadec umc-10's and I'm running things faster than 90% of the machinist I've seen could do in there dreams.

Ok thanks for all your help mr leghorn..

And as far as I can tell all the controls I've seen that are MAtes have "Mate" written on the top yellow strip. All non-Mate controls do not have Mate written on top, it just says OI-MC on it. This is all so confusing

ok on the picture of the machine control where you select x,y and z for jog there is buttons for 4th+ and 4th-. Would that mean anything? Would they put those there if there was no 4th ability?

Can any fanuc experts chime in? If I was forced to use an indexer, would I have any limitations on position limits or would I be able to achieve any angle? Would the M code programming be much different that using an A code?

ok the control on the top says "OI-MC" it does not say "OI-MC Mate". I should be ok than right?

Ok in this pdf (http://www.i-logic.com/manuals/fanuc-oi-manual1.pdf) Its says it can be configured for 4 axis. I spoke to Nicholas at methods machine and he told me it cannot be configured. I dont know if he knows something that I dont and if I should believe him or believe the manual. What do you guys think?

That pdf is for the OI-Mate control though. The control I'm talking about is the OI-MC which they dont have any info on the fanuc site, only for the OI-MD

Is it still possible that it is configured for full 4th axis ability?

What do you mean by "full"? 4th axis ability is what I need. I'm not worried about 5 axis at all, just 4 axis simultniuos

Ok I am very interested in buying this used Robodrill and was told I would be able to interface a different brand rotary table with it. Then I spoke with someone else and they told me that most likely the control is not even rotory table compatable. Then someone else told me that some OI-MC controls can be rotary compatible. Can someone please tell me what is the deal with this. It is very important that it is compatable. I dont want to be stuck with a nachine that I cant put a rotary table on. Thanks

Nice! ;-). I cut my teeth in many a shop like that. Learn all you can and always be willing to go above and beyond whats asked of you.

Hey Gcode, Could you give me a little more details on how those misc values work. I program a DMG DMF 260 but have never messed with those cause I'm not really sure what they do. Thank you.

I got that once when chaining a circle and it took me forever to figure out that there was a duplicate circle that was getting chained as well. Look for duplicates or use single mode with the wait comand.

I got that as well for engraving toolpaths. Ignored it and the code was fine. Havent had any issues with Sp2.

Just hide the parts of the machine that are in the way. Thats what I do.

Hey Grievous74! Still havent really had time to see if this works for me yet. It will prolly be next week before I get a chance Ok.. I assume U have a machining program for the part, so the idea is to ad in the beginning of your program a new tool=>tool sensor. How you do it is your responsibility. I was just suggesting to use those commands but may not work on your machine. I'm not there and I don't know what cycles U got on the controller. Then the actual codes for the probing are inside a subroutine which must be located in the same directory like your main program. Please familiarize yourself firs with the controller, how the subroutines work on Sinumerik. Read an operating/programming manuals. I made the subroutine for U in a zip file because for some reason i cannot attach on this forum files with extension *.spf (maybe an admin can fix that). See attachment. Cheers