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Hello,

On a Fanuc 16-M control, is it possible to change from one-word editing to one-character editing? If so, how do you switch between these two modes?

Thanks for any help.


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Hello yaji63,

I'm curious about this ... how exactly does the operator login at the machine?


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Paul

Hello yaji63,

What is the control?


Regards,

Paul

Hello moondawg,

Is your program feeding in Inches Per Minute (G94)? If you change that to Inches Per Rev (G95), your machine shouldn't feed anymore when the spindle cuts off. I realize this...

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What is the maximum number of characters in a programmed line on a fanuc 31i control? I have a calculation that is over 181 characters….

Along the same lines, I am using "DPRNT" to...

You could write a bubble sort routine that would sort the Variables in ascending order and then get the difference between the smallest and largest value...

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I have to convert some horizontal boring bar programs from a customer. Their control is a Fanuc 31i and they use K1 or K0 in their canned cycle lines. For example:
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By the way... I found this macro on another site... therefore cannot take credit for it's creation.

Just trying to help the OP.

- Paul

Maybe the OP is looking for something like this:

#100=500 (part length)
#101=10 (travel length before speed increase)
#102=50 (rpm variation every #101 distance)
#103=300 (spindle RPM)...

Hi All,

Just curious what generally has a faster material removal rate ... a mill or a turning center? It would seem to me that milling, because of multiple teeth in the milling tool, would be...

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We have a Mazak Horizontal Machining Center Nexus 10800-II with a Matrix Nexus control and I am wondering if there is a way to get a cycle time of a program without running the...

Thanks for the info. :)

The maintenance person says there is no limit switch (I don't know enough about it to say whether this is possible or not). The machine can be handled with the micro-pulse...

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We have a Horizontal Boring Mill with a Mitsubishi Meldas 500 series controller and out of nowhere we are getting a "Z Axis OT (overtravel)" alarm which has shut the machine down because...

I'm trying to thread mill a 4-pitch ACME thread with a 5-pitch tool (on a horizontal machining center). The program is correct. I'm wondering if the gage is. The angle is there on the tool (29 deg...

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I need to get around a 500 microinch finish in a bore with a single-point boring bar with a .030" radius insert. How do you go about figuring out what the feed rate should be? Is there some...

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We have a Fanuc 31i controller on one of our Horizontal Machining Centers and I need to do some Conical Interpolation. We need to mill a tapered bore. I've looked through the operators...

I agree to stick with the Fanuc because the operators are familiar with that controller already. I was just looking for some kind of revelation regarding the other two that I might be missing. The...

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We are looking at purchasing a brand-new large horizontal boring mill and we get our choice of controllers. I am looking for a comparison between three controllers: Fanuc 31i, Heidenhain...

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We have a Mazak horizontal machining center with an M-32 controller (or M-plus or Matrix Nexus) using G-code programming. I want to program a mill for spiral interpolation combined...

Ok, hopefully I'm in the right place. I'm not a maintenance guy and I know very little about this subject but we are having a problem with our Y-axis on our HMC CNC (G & L with Fanuc 31i controller)...

Because of time. Time is money, and they see this as a waste of time (unnecessary). I say you save more in less scrap than you do eliminating the gage cuts.

I'm just wondering is this SOP...

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I was wondering if anyone uses gage cuts for finish boring operations (about +/- .002" or less) or gage cuts for centering machining to castings or weldments, or for any other reason. ...