[bobbas41]

HI guys, I have a 99' milltronics vm 16 with the rigid tap option. I have always used autodesks fusion 360 for my cad/cam software and it used to create posts that rigid tapped on this machine just fine, a couple of months ago now the machine just quit rigid tapping from fusions posts, it runs the g code that fusion spits out to the first tapped hole location and then the spindle just freezes at the canned retract height above the part before ever entering into the spindle feed rate for the tapping cycle, im assuming R0.19 in this case is the canned retract height on line N11... I went and created a simple conversational program and it rigid tapped just fine that way, but for some unknown reason its not liking my g code that fusion is kicking out? Ill attach the code in question, let me know if you have any thoughts, id appreciate it, im really missing that feature, and i never really got into the conversational programming enough on this machine to make it useful for this...

O1001 (FIXTURE TAP)
(T4 D=0.25 CR=0 - ZMIN=-0.74 - RIGHT HAND TAP)
N1 G90 G94 G17
N2 G20
N3 G32
(DRILL4)
N4 T4 M6
N5 S300 M3
N6 G54
N7 M8
N8 G0 X0 Y0.9825
N9 G43 Z0.6 H4
N10 G0 Z0.2
N11 G98 G88 X0 Y0.9825 Z-0.74 R0.19 P0 F0.05
N12 X0.8509 Y-0.4912
N13 X-0.8509
N14 G80
N15 Z0.6
N16 M9
N17 G32
N18 G28 G91 X0 Y0
N19 G90
N20 M30

[bobbas41]

here is what im seeing on the control when the spindle freezes at the "R" point

[bobbas41]

here is what im seeing when the spindle stops and just sits in the "r" point....

[bobbas41]

Scratch that, the mill will not rigid tap in conversational either... that was a misunderstanding of the selections in conversational on my part....