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BobCAD and CSMIO Rigid Tapping
« on: January 04, 2015, 05:22:17 AM »
If anyone uses BobCAD and the IP-S or IP-A (with Enc module) and intends to do rigid tapping then I have altered my post processor to put out suitable code for the M84 macro.
I have it working but am still tweaking it to try and make things a bit better.
At the moment each hole that is to be tapped has to be a seperate operation, this is because the M84 macro does not recognise the canned cycle format for multiple holes. Or at least I don't think it does, I am not at a machine now so can't be 100% certain but I seem to remember I had to previously do seperate M84's for each hole.

Anyway what I hope to manage is to make it so BobCAD will output code individually for each hole by using only 1 tapping operation. Problem is I am not great at VB so I may not manage.

As previously said I have it working using multiple operations, so if anyone wants to alter their PP just shout and I can let you know the lines that need altered in your PP.

Hood
« Last Edit: January 04, 2015, 05:24:04 AM by Hood »

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Re: BobCAD and CSMIO Rigid Tapping
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2015, 06:28:05 AM »
Hood,

I use Bobcad in Solidworks.
I started to modify the post processor.

A test tapping 4 holes, output the nc below.
I have not tried this on the machine yet.
Is this what you mean??

N03 M06 T6
N04 S1857 M03
N05 G00 G90 G54 X11.5 Y11.5
N06 G43 H6 Z2.54 M08
N07  G98 X11.5 Y11.5 R3.
N08 M84 P0,9999 Q9,07874011993408 S1857 R3714
N09 X20. Y25.
N10 X40. Y5.
N11 X50. Y20.
N12 M09
N13 M05
N14 G53 Z0.
N15 G53 Y-1 X0.
N16 M02

(END OF PROGRAM)

N17 M30
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Re: BobCAD and CSMIO Rigid Tapping
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2015, 08:51:34 AM »
I have not tested it but I dont think the above code will work, let me know if it does though.

I have not been succesful in making BobCAD output multiple M84 lines from the one operation :(
Its not that big a deal though as its simple to copy and paste a single threading operation, all you then have to do is choose the new hole geometry and compute.

Hood


BTW
Not sure how you are getting the code but I presume you are using Programme Blocks, if so then you can use the format to limit the decimal places.