*** Quoting *** From: Steve Blackmore <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Servo tuning--plot request To: EMC2-Users-List <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:00:18 +0100, you wrote: >> The inability to feed hold and do other thing like, stop spindle, jog >> away to clear chips, or change an insert and re zero tool and then just >> press cycle start and continue are a show stopper. I've spoken to many >> business associates over the last few months and every one said they >> would not consider a control system without this. >> >EMC can do all this, u just need to know how to operate the control. if >you can do this on a fanuc 6/10M or newer you can do it on EMC. >just pause program. job away to where ever. stop spindle >do what ever >restart spindle in MDI just like u would have to on fanuc. reload H >offset if needed >then switch back to program pick run from line when in place away you go. > >its how we have to do it on our fanuc 10 so its no show stoper for us. Fanuc 6 or10 ???? Ancient 80's technology and absolutely nothing to aspire to. Most of my contacts run 16/18/21 which are streets ahead of that obsolete stuff. I believe they are up to 31 or so at the moment ;) Please tell me how you feed hold mid program, stop spindle, jog away from the work, do whatever you need to, then press cycle start and continue in EMC without doing a "Stop, note the line number then run from current line"? *** SNIP *** Steve Blackmore Well - I'd love to see a Fanuc 16/18/21 do as you ask. None of the Mori Seiki, Kitamura, or Hwacheon machines I have used have this magic ability. ( I leave out Mazak - cause they are just different, and Okuma, which doesn't really break the rules, they just made up there own.) Every one of these requires picking a safe restart point. If I were to interupt the AUTO cycle and move, change a tool offset, index a turret or replace a milling tool holder - then just switch back to AUTO and hit START... The results would not be pretty. There are some nice restart functions - and I use them when available, but nothing as simple as you suggest. I have not been doing this for 30 years yet (close), and the days of loading paper tapes are nearly forgotten. I attend the WESTEC show every year to see the latest bells and whistles. I would think those sales people would be very proud of such a capability and showing it off, but they are not. On the other side we have companies which refuse to do any employee training. - The state of CNC technology offers several different ways to cope with different production issues - are all the employees on the same page? EMC2.3.3 is so far removed from the original NIST EMC, and as it evolves it will eventually get rewritten such that the code today would appear obsolete. It will get there someday. Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
