[Brian FRF]

Machine is Takisawa ts-20
I have the manuals
Ive gone over and over trying slight changes and connot for the life of me, get the g71 command line to work.
Its in the manual, so I imagine its in the machine!

tried with u,w, and x,z
tried having three numerals to the N lines, ie, n010 instead of just n10, and same for the P and Q commands.
Im not running Txxxx or S command s on the g71 to try and limit the amount of commands on one line.

Id love to have the g71 command working, but maybe Im missing something silly

any tips would be appreciated!

everything shows this would be one line g71, not later 2 line stuff. Tried 2 lines, and throws error

FWIW, I get error 007 on the g71, which is decimal issue, which make no sense to me at all!

[fordav11]

having manuals isn't much good if you are not *reading* manuals.
I'm sure there would be a working example in the manual. Did you try typing
that in and cutting air..... probably not.

a listing of your program might help us to fix it.

here's an example for 6T....

O1234
N1 G28 U0 W0
G50 X10.3456 Z15.5891 S1000
G0 T0101
G96 S400 M3
G00 X1.25 Z0.1 M8
G71 P10 Q11 U0.01 W0.005 D2000 F0.014
N10 G0 X0.9
G1 Z0 F0.005
X1.0000 Z-0.05
X1.0000 Z-22.0
N11 X1.25
G0 X10.0 Z10.0 M9
T0100 M5
G28 U0 W0
M1
N2 G28 U0 W0
G50 X10.4567 Z15.3421 S1500
G0 T0202
G96 S450 M3
G0 X1.25 Z0.1 M8
G70 P10 Q11
G0 X10.0 Z10.0 M9
T0200 M5
G28 U0 W0
M1
M30
%


some things to note....
A) D must not have a decimal point. If you use a D with a decimal point you will get 'Alarm 007 Illegal Use Of Decimal Point'

B) on the N10 line you probably cant add a Z or W because your machine probably does not have Type II cycles.
meaning you can't cut pockets or tapers that go into the part. most 6Ts didnt have the Type II option. If you add a
Z/W you will get the following alarm if your machine doesn't have the option......

065 ILLEGAL COMMAND IN G71–G73
(T series)
1. G00 or G01 is not commanded at the block with the sequence
number which is specified by address P in G71, G72, or G73
command.
2. Address Z(W) or X(U) was commanded in the block with a
sequence number which is specified by address P in G71 or G72,
respectively.

specifically in your case, point 2 is related to having a Z/W on the first line after the G71 command.

also, this question comes up almost weekly. if you do a search on these forums you will find dozens of questions about G71/Type II cycles and answers.