I'm getting a recently purchased 325-II sorted out and am running in to a few programming hurdles. Emco US & Emco Austria have not responded beyond sending a couple of manuals, so I'm hoping somone here might be able to help.
Everything functions on the lathe - all features & hardware appear to be fine. Only has 400ish hours of 'on' time and you could eat off of it - virtually unused tech school lathe.
The problem is trying to figure out the g-codes for live tools.
I have programming manual revisions B2002-03 (old) and C2003-07 (latest from Emco site). The WinNC version I have on the OEM CD & floppy is 14.14.0000.
B2002-03 does not have any description of live tool g-codes or programming (other than G7.1 and G12.1), and neither does the original paper manual I got with the lathe.
C2003-07 has live tool programming instructions and examples, but they don't match the WinNC/Fanuc version I have - control throws an 'invalid gcode' alarm when I attempt to use the documented codes (G77/G33 for radial tools)
This is making post processor development a little challenging.
I've found a set of demonstration programs on the Emco CD, and according to those the radial drilling is G87 and radial rigid tapping is G88.
Experimenting with G87/88 looks like those are the correct codes, but the demo programs do some odd/crashy movements before starting the drill or tap cycles (rapiding in X to hole bottom before rapiding up and then starting the feed).
So... does anyone have a 21TB programming manual earlier than 2003-07? If so, would you mind posting some radial drilling/tapping code so I can figure out the syntax? Or even post the manual?
Even better - anyone have a more recent version of WinNC than 14.14.0000? Emco took down the software files from the download section of their site so only the manuals are available now.
Last question...
Rigid tapping - can these things do actual rigid tapping (main spindle, live axial, or live radial) or do they need a floating collet/holder? My couple of attempts with the main spindle resulted in threads being ripped out.
Any help or guidance welcome.
-Ralph