Hopefully, you don't mind my little story here before we get into this small, novice problem I'm having here.
I was just promoted to lathe line supervisor in my small little shop and have been given the task of speeding things up.
My previous supervisor did things a little different when it comes to programming our machines, almost like he never
wanted to change from the older lathe models from the 80's early 90's. I could be totally wrong about that. Anyway,
This first picture is how this particular flat bottom rapids to the machine and the old code. My old boss used G98 with
400.0 inches per min feed to travel to work piece. It's fine and all, but I would like to speed things up and use G00 on all
our programs, like the second picture.
The problem for me is, or the question I want to ask is why when I'm in G98, does the tool travel directly to the workpiece
diagonally like I want, but when I use My G00 rapid travel it seems to go to Y, Z, Then X(not diagonally) even though all three
axis are on the same line. What am I missing? Parameters?
Unfortunately, my videos of the tool in action were too large.
Thanks for any input you might have
Dustin LaPlace