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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work offsets

« on: September 18, 2011, 08:37:04 PM »

I was thinking that the initialization string on the config page is where that would go except there is only a G80 in that box now. I will give it a shot. I will play around with retract variables a little bit, good call. I cant stand cutting air almost as much as I hate driving an end mill into the side of a fixture! There is always room for improvement.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work offsets

« on: September 18, 2011, 07:54:02 PM »

Here is the last one.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work offsets

« on: September 18, 2011, 07:53:25 PM »

Here is the code for that project....op1 and 3 are the same but need different retract heights so I just made two different subs. operations 2 and 4 are the circles again just with different retracts. Have to post the last .txt in next reply, will only let me attach 4 files. This is the code that didn't work on my xp box. All switchboxop*.txt go in the sub folder.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work offsets

« on: September 18, 2011, 07:32:06 PM »

BR549, I ran the program on the windows7 box with no trouble. Dumped it into the mill which is using xp and the circle cutouts failed. After playing around for awhile I reversed the toolpath to conventional milling instead of climbing and all is good. Is there a way to always have mach start on the g55 offset on start up? Thanks again for all your input!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work offsets

« on: September 17, 2011, 10:08:16 PM »

fantastic!! I will be back at the shop in the morning and will give it a try. Thanks soooo much for all the help. I will have to add you to my Christmas card mailing list!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work offsets

« on: September 17, 2011, 03:21:06 PM »

I am set to run this job, thanks again. I am cutting three holes for switches in the left side vice, a hole for a cord in middle vise, and right side vise runs the same part as the first. I have to keep pretty close numbers on stations 1 and 3. The hole cutout is not too critical so I removed the g41 in that sub. Try the attached code out and it should run fine. Then enable tcomp in the second sub and see what happens. I am good to go and I thank you for the help just wanted some feedback on why one sub can be run as often as I like with comp but a second sub with comp will crash out.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work offsets

« on: September 17, 2011, 12:42:06 PM »

You ARE the man! I can't thank you enough! I really was not even close to that after days of attempts. I guess it's like they say about skinning that old cat. That gives me a great platform for a mutiple vise setup. I'm thinking the next best thing to mach is this site!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work offsets

« on: September 16, 2011, 10:05:21 PM »

G15 G0 G53 G17 G40 G20 G90 G94 G55 G49 G98 G64 G97

Hi, not even sure what a G97 is but its in there....thanks for the help with this one! Most of the programs I have needed in the past the wizards worked just fine for but now I need to run a lot of parts and want to handle them as little as possible. This is only a sample program to make sure I can get everything working right before I start coding the actual parts. Wish I had another xp box to test it on.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ToolComp with fixture offsets OR subs

« on: September 16, 2011, 09:32:18 PM »

I agree that it would be a nice feature to have working! I'm plugging away at a work around 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work offsets

« on: September 16, 2011, 09:17:13 PM »

I'm not sure why but on a windows7 box the toolpath is fine. Every combination of tcomp and subs in any work offset I have tried works normal. Is it possible something on that xp box is corrupt?