[raidman24]

Hello all,

I have recently acquired an older import vertical machining center equipped with a Fanuc 6mb control, tool changer and a 4th axis, I can successfully index the axis in mdi, home it out from what I can tell (the home light does not light up after it appears to have homed itself) and i can rotate the 4th wherever I like with the hand wheel, however i can not for the life of me figure out how to command it to feed in mdi or in a program, it just sits there whenever it reads the command and does nothing, since it was equipped with 4th axis card from new, (as far as i know) and has a hand wheel that i can manually rotate the axis without commanding it in mdi, I had assumed that it was like other machines i had encountered in the work place that if you could move the 4th axis with the hand wheel, they were considered to be a full 4th axis, but if you could only command them to index in mdi, then they were considered an indexing 4th axis, am i totally wrong with this theory? Am i missing something? Are my parameters set incorrectly? Also how can I disconnect the 4th axis in the future, from what i can tell the machine was not equipped with the famed "4th axis neglect" switch in the electrical cabinet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[generaldisarray]

so G0 only on the rotary axis via MDI right?
i see additional axis control as well as additional axis simultaneous control as separate options, but nothing about only G0.

[raidman24]

Yes that is correct G0 only in mdi, do you by chance know what the parameters for simultaneous axis control and additional axis are, maybe there's something set wrong there?

[machinehop5]

home it out from what I can tell (the home light does not light up after it appears to have homed itself)

Is the Light burned out or maybe its not Homing correctly...?

[generaldisarray]

you have mail, yay.

What make is this machine anyhow?

I dont think you could MDI G0 if you didnt have a successful zero return.

What F did you try with the G1?

[raidman24]

The machine is an acromax mx16 vertical mill, and i tried f10

[generaldisarray]

The machine is an acromax mx16 vertical mill, and i tried f10

F10.(decimal point) or F10

try G1 G91 A180. F1000. maybe

[freakycnc]

I noticed you're using "A" as the programming address. Check parameter 24 bits 1, 2, 3 for the address that's assigned to the additional axis.
It may not be "A".

[raidman24]

F10.(decimal point) or F10

try G1 G91 A180. F1000. maybe

It still does nothing, it will accept rapid commands in mdi ie: g90 or g91 A180., but will not take a feed command

[machinehop5]

G94 IPM or G95 IPR ?

[raidman24]

G94 IPM or G95 IPR ?

Still no difference, machine throws and alarm when I type G95 in