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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 for vertical lathes?

« on: September 27, 2006, 11:10:12 PM »

Oh well.  Guess I'll have to write my own CNC program.  Shouldn't take more then a week or two to port the base code over from one of the other machines.  Then pretty it up.  Now if I could only get the cool driver you have...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 for vertical lathes?

« on: September 27, 2006, 09:04:34 PM »

Well there are a number of them...

G10 - Set to Radius programming
G11 - Set to Diameter

G70 - Inch programming
G71 - Millimeter

G33 - Constant lead Threadcut
G34 - Variable lead Increasing
G35 - Variable lead Decreasing

G53 - Cancel Part Offsets

G60 - Clear Inhibit zone
G61 - Activate Inhibit zone
G62 - DeActivate Inhibit zone

G92 & G98 - Insert Cartesian presets
G99 - Cancel Presets

G93 - Velocity/Distance feerate mode


That would be a start.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 for vertical lathes?

« on: September 27, 2006, 01:57:16 PM »

Well maybe if I can get the company to spring for 20 licenses we might be able to work something out?  I could provide you with a list of the G-codes and how WE (GE, AB, Fanuc) use them and you could adjust the program to fit?  Or I could do it if I had the source.  Either way would be fine with me.

Set me up with the different modules that contain the G-codes.  I tweak them for us.  Send them back to you to be compiled into a finished program.  That way all I have is bits and peices and not everything.

Just a thought

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 for vertical lathes?

« on: September 26, 2006, 07:23:27 PM »

You are right in that we don't currently have a toolpath.  I could just create screens without them so that wouldn't be an issue.  Yes, unfortunatly if I leave them the operators we have would be VERY confused.  We'd find them leaning over all the time trying to figure it out.  Might get a number of wrenched backs and things like that.

Seriously, though.  I really do need to find out if the built-in M-codes and G-codes can be changed.  Our existing programs have different usages for a number of the codes.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 for vertical lathes?

« on: September 25, 2006, 10:15:10 PM »

bump

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 for vertical lathes?

« on: September 24, 2006, 06:55:31 PM »

Tried it and I don't see a way to rotate the toolpath window 90°

Also, is it possible to change the built-in M-codes and G-codes?

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 for vertical lathes?

« on: September 24, 2006, 05:52:42 PM »

Sorry if this has been answered before...

I started looking at the Mach turn screens and I notice that they all show horizontal lathes.  Is it possible to change this?

thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Retrofit/Upgrade

« on: September 24, 2006, 05:24:57 PM »

Nice looking little lathe.  Will have to get some pics of the junk we have here.  Most are vertical lathes with 30" spindle chucking and 40" of vertical travel.  We mostly turn brake drums for semi-trucks and big stuff like that.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Retrofit/Upgrade

« on: September 24, 2006, 04:06:19 PM »

Deideshiem vertical lathe?  We have four of those that could use an upgrade also.  Will have to try to work together on this.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Retrofit/Upgrade

« on: September 23, 2006, 08:54:04 PM »

Not so much worried about the different chuncks of code.  I can leech most of that from our existing machines.  I'm just wondering if anyone has looked at using Mach to replace an old controller like a Mark 2000?