I'm pretty experienced with coding in general and I'm working as a CNC programmer right now. All I know about our post right now is that I press a button and it makes a code, but I want to be able to...
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I'm pretty experienced with coding in general and I'm working as a CNC programmer right now. All I know about our post right now is that I press a button and it makes a code, but I want to be able to...
That's genius! I'll have to give that a shot today. Many thanks.
What CAD software are you using?
Have you looked into sub programming? You could have your sphere be a sub program and then use incremental moves in the main program to move it around. Like so:
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O1000
G20 G17 G40 G49 G80 G90...
It sounded like the title of your program was too long, but then you threw me with the copying an old program test. Just for fun, how long is your program title? Like "mysupercoolprogram.txt". I as...
I could tweak the postprocessor to output 4 decimals, but then I would have to go back through 10 years worth of codes for the company and repost. Not at all practical. I may have really hit a wall...
I thought about that, but I don't know if there's a good way to determine whether the R should be + or - based on the other code's IJ values.
I think I'm having a similar problem. Did you ever find a solution on the controller level? Re-posting isn't an option for me unfortunately.
Hey thanks for the info! I did not know this was a setting. I guess I've always used mills with that setting turned off.
As others have said you need a Z move on your G43 line. I've also found that if you do not put an X/Y coordinate on the canned cycle line it will hover above the part, move to the clearance plane,...
Hey all, I've been stuck on a problem for a couple days and decided to turn to the community for help.
I've been working on software that reads in GCode designed for a different brand and outputs...