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General Mach Discussion / Re: G73 G83 Mach3Turn

« on: March 23, 2009, 12:30:35 PM »

Not a problem! Once you get used to the various quirks and idiosyncratic behavior it is a great program and I look forward to running our plasma table with it where I can take advantage of all the improvements you guys are currently making on Machmill. Thanks for all the help!  Cheers,  Ray

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G73 G83 Mach3Turn

« on: March 23, 2009, 07:43:24 AM »

That could explain why it doesn't work!  G73 is listed and described In the Mach3turn 1.84 manual. and another thread described it in detail  (www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,838.0.html).

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G73 G83 Mach3Turn

« on: March 23, 2009, 06:23:55 AM »

Thanks! I am using G90 for absolute mode. I'll try both G94 and G95 tomorrow I have never used them with turbocnc or flashcut before. Do you know what the code would be for the G73 cycle as it would be much faster than the G83?

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General Mach Discussion / G73 G83 Mach3Turn

« on: March 23, 2009, 05:24:09 AM »

I am trying to drill a 1/2" diameter hole through a 1" Diam. X 3" long piece of barstock using Mach3Turn. The G73 cycle is what I need but have tried all of the suggestions I have found on the forum and they do not work. When I run the program Mach3turn does all of the other lines of code and then skips the G73 and goes on with the rest of the program. I am using G73  Z2.9 Q.1 R.1 F2
When I use G83 it works as it should but does not rapid feed back down the hole to where it left off before returning to feed speed (the return to its last position is at F speed which really slows up the process. Could someone write me  the code using G73 to drill a 2.9" deep hole .100" per peck and retracting .100" prior to going back for the next peck of .100"? Thanks for your help. This is the only thing keeping me from running parts at this point.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hardinge HNC lathe conversion

« on: March 16, 2009, 07:30:58 AM »

Thanks for the answer! The problem was that I had not yet installed the second printer card! After I installed it today the remainder of the 20 output ports magically appeared in the output dialogue. Whenever someone can't seem to find all of the 20 outputs the first thing to ask them is "did you install the second card and its software driver yet?"    At this point everything works except that the VB editor has caused Machturn to crash several times when I was writing the Mcodes. And I still haven't gotten the second printer ports pins to light up yet, maybe tomorrow. If anyone is converting an HNC or an CHNC they can email me at rsuiter@helitool.com for help as I have been running a couple that I converted a few years ago. It's really a simple conversion to do.

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General Mach Discussion / Hardinge HNC lathe conversion

« on: March 15, 2009, 09:36:38 PM »

I have been running the CNC lathes and mills in my shop for many years now using Flashcut and Turbocnc V4.01. I am currently trying out Mach3 turn on our HNC lathe and need advice on how to map more than the 6 outputs currently visible on the diagnostics panel. I need the following outputs:  M03 1 output,  M04 1 output,  M07 1 output,  M22 1 output,  M21 1 output, Vertical slide 1 output,  Turret index solenoid 1 output, Turret stop solenoid 1 output.
I know how to write the VB script for activating and deactivating the outputs. This works very well for the 6 outputs that are listed, but how do you map the remaining outputs? How would you write the VB script for output 8  ActivateSignal(output8) and how would you assign a port and pin number to it since the ports and pins dialogue only goes to 6 outputs? Also can you use the enable lines as outputs to control solenoids etc instead of their normal function?