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Share Your GCode / Re: Problem generating 3+2 G code

« on: November 15, 2021, 11:55:46 AM »

I have been using Mastercam for about 30 years great for multiaxis programming which is my specialty but if you have no experience with software I wonder how you would manage multiaxis stuff. Even if it fixed position stuff. 3+2

I would be shocked if any software doesn't work similar I do know that Mastercam is rated the best for this type application but if you have no experience this is an impossible feat IMO.

I wish you luck....wow

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: What is a Macro? and what can it do for me?

« on: November 13, 2021, 12:28:15 PM »

1st Time posting here.

Macros are for doing many things that can be complicated and tiresome to create. Every single G and M code is a macro that cause the machine as you all know to do different things. The great thing about Macros is there is no limit to what you can create from engraving to tool setting. But you have to have a great deal of experience and it takes a lot of time to learn and execute.

I have 40+ years of working in machine shops working on equipment and programming it. Macro's are the most difficult task there is in programming of course a lot of that depends on how complicated the Macro. Then there are different forms of macro programming and more and more builders are developing their own language when it comes to macros. For instance Fanuc uses the most common form used Macro B's but as I said companies like Fagor have their own language when it comes to macros.  And still more companies are writing Macros for use in their machines so operators can do things with the machine that in the past they couldn't even contemplate doing.

Macro's are every G code and every M code you use in a machine control. That said there is less and less need to be able to write Macro's like I said the builders are writing them and giving them away with their machines. To the point of using them as a sales point. I would stick to being really good with G code and even that takes a lot of time to become good at.

I have written lots of Macro's and post processors over the years I like doing it because it gives me a tool that someone else may not have, so I gain an advantage or used too. That said like I said more and more builders are supplying their machines loaded with tons of Macros so the need to be able to write Macro's for the daily programmer or user isn't really needed much any more. Still a powerful tool. By the time you learn them and write them it's likely someone will give them to you for nothing.