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Title: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: jve on June 27, 2010, 04:20:08 AM
dear guys
i am trying to work with the mastercam and posting in mach3 turn and i have a problem when mastercam generate the gcode G02,G03 in mach3 turn they are coming up circles i tryed to change the i,k to absolute but the problem keep coming up the difference is when i change I,K from absolute to incremental the circles come big or small any one is useing mastercam to mach3 turn so can help me !!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: Hood on June 27, 2010, 08:05:03 AM
Config menu, Ports and Pins, Turn Options then change the Revered Arcs in Front Toolpost.

Hood
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: jve on June 28, 2010, 06:49:48 AM
you bet hood
but i still have a problem mastercam is posting in radius with the mach3B post and when i change the post to fanuc it is ok posing in diameter but fanuc instead or i,j they use r so in mach3 they will come out circles
i need a mach3 post for mastercam that post in diameter
can some one help me !!!!!
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: Hood on June 28, 2010, 07:43:15 AM
Strange, I work in Dia mode and use R for arcs and its fine, did you try changing the reversed arc setting again after you used the new post processor?
Can you attach a bit of code that you have issues with and I will see how it looks for me.
Hood
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: jve on June 28, 2010, 02:30:44 PM
dear hood 
belive it or not now it is posting in diameter and it is a fanuc prosesor and mach3 is fine with it 
but dont ask me what i did cause i dont know
do you use mastercam to generate gcode?
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: Hood on June 28, 2010, 05:53:13 PM
Thats god to hear :)
No dont have MasterCAM.

Hood
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: RICH on June 28, 2010, 09:53:17 PM
Hmm....
You just shook the memory here, i don't use MasterCam, but Dolphin has a few different post processors for the
lathe, ie one for radius and one for diameter.  So may be similar. Additionaly check if there is a turning mode that you can be in
when bringing in the file as that could just be a click and you may have mistakenly done it.

FWIW,
RICH
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: jve on June 29, 2010, 05:13:23 AM
Dear rich
yes you might be wright
im just exploring the mastercam it is a bit complicated compare to the lazy turn but it is a verry good cam and also i need to practice alot
i notice that in mach3 turn when i bup up the feed rate while it is in g1 it will set after a g0 do you know why ?
i really apritiate your reply also hood cause when i have problems you allways find me an aswer thanks alot guys
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: Hood on June 29, 2010, 05:54:30 AM
i notice that in mach3 turn when i bup up the feed rate while it is in g1 it will set after a g0 do you know why ?

No FRO on Queue option set?

Hood
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: DennisF on June 29, 2010, 04:36:15 PM
I don't know if this is the same problem i had but latest version of mach would take all the radius moves and make circles out of them or a figure 8 i had to delete that version and go backwards in version's to correct the problem working fine now.

Dennis
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: jve on June 30, 2010, 12:57:23 PM
i notice that in mach3 turn when i bup up the feed rate while it is in g1 it will set after a g0 do you know why ?

No FRO on Queue option set?

Hood
i did try it but with no luck the only thing that i set was (look ahead 20lines) i adjust it to 1 and then after that code line it will bup up but you still have to wait for the other line then
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: Hood on July 01, 2010, 04:07:31 AM
Can you attach your xml please.
Hood
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: jve on July 02, 2010, 12:40:20 AM
how can i upload a XML file i made a copy with a pendrive but i dint know how to upload in the forum  page
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: jve on July 02, 2010, 12:54:37 AM
i think here is the file
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: Hood on July 02, 2010, 07:29:31 AM
Ok first thing is uncheck No FRO on Queue
Then if it still doesnt work then I think you may have an issue with the screenset as I can adjust the FRO no problem with my own screenset but the standard Turn one doesnt seem to work.
Will have a look see if I can find the issue with the standard screenset.
Hood
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: Hood on July 02, 2010, 07:41:22 AM
Ok seems to be the OEM for increment feedrate that the turn screen uses are acting weird. On my screen I use OEM108 and OEM109 and it works as it should so try this screenset and see if it works.
Hood
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: jve on July 03, 2010, 08:32:49 AM
dear hood
it worked perfect !!!!!!!!!
many thanks for your help
Title: Re: master cam to mach3 turn
Post by: Hood on July 03, 2010, 08:53:55 AM
No probs, will note this down and make sure that when/if Brian ever gets on to Rev4 Turn it will be fixed.
Hood