Originally Posted by
Steve Manthey
Excelmachine...Thanks a lot for the info!
I gave my test program a shot after work tonight and I was disappointed. The tool path was real jerky...almost like it read a line stopped, then went on to the next. G9 is an "exact-stop check" and at first I thought maybe I had that in there causing this. I checked and there are no G9's. Here is a sample of my program:
O1000
T13 M06
G54 G90
S1459 M03
G00 G43 Z3.1 H13
X.956 Y0. A-148.355
Z3.03
G01 Z3. F5.
G93
G01 X.979 F326.087 A-143.79
X.9951 F326.831 A-138.865
X1.0048 F314.342 A-133.511
X1.0083 F279.942 A-127.384
X1.0046 F359.909 A-122.627
X.994 F395.84 A-118.458
X.9765 F409.97 A-114.776
blah,blah,blah
G94
G00 Z3.1
M6 T13
G91 G28 Z0
G28 Y0
%
Anyone have any ideas?
Steve
Steve, I've had this problem before with Fadal machines, and it was because it wanted a G8, which made the controller "look ahead", and not do a line at a time. We were getting the jerky toolpath as you describe. I edited the post to put the G8 in, and no more problems with the Fadal. Haas machines don't seem to have this problem. It sounds like your Mazak needs the G code for this. Perhaps some one can enlighten us on which code your machine needs. Good luck.
Hey, why's it going over there?!!