Ikegai ft20u programming the live tooling

I have an 80's vintage Ikegai ft20U with a Fanuc 6t B controller, that I am trying to program the live tooling on. My manual gives me little guidance. I have learned that I invoke milling mode by commanding M18. After doing so however I am lost. I can command a M29 C/H__ (spindle orientation) and it orients the spindle, but then it just sits there until I hit reset. the cycle start light stays lit, no alarm, as if it is waiting for some additional command or signal. When I command a tool move such as G01 X__, it just sits there, no axis movement and the cycle start light illuminated but no movement until I hit the reset button. Any suggestions would be welcome or if anyone knows where I could find a program or a manual on programming the rotary tool on this old beast I would appreciate it.

If you are in single block and the cycle start light stays on, it is not done with the block it is on.

Hi,

Can you post some g-code.
Try something like this;

%
O100 ( DRILL - 5.0MM )
T0202 G98 M18
G00 G28 H0 (or C0)
G97 S3200 M03 (or M13 - M23 ??)
/M08
G00 X50. Z10. C0
G83 R-5. Z-15. Q5000 F300
C90.
C180.
C270.
G00 G80 Z50. M05 ( M15 - M25 ???)
G00 X200. Z150. M09
G99 M17 ?? ( Back to turning-mode)
M30
%

G99, turning-mode, F0.25 (mm/rev.)
G98, milling mode, F500 (mm/min)
Or there other codes for Break (High/Low), C-axis ON/OFF ???

Regards,
Heavy_Metal.

Use G98.

C-axis and live tool M codes are usually specific to manufacturer. there is no standard so you need the Ikegai manuals.
The Ikegai programming manual should list all of the M codes.
Take a photo of that page and post it here then we can help you with the G-Code.

thank you much for your help. i now have some functionality. i would like to find a manual that shows programming for the live tooling on the ikegai ft20 U. Thank You.

I do have information about i series Fanuc control, but I don't think it would work on your control the same way.

the i-series and 6T are 20 years apart! of course it's not going to work.
you really just need the Ikegai programming manuals for your machine......

thanks for the help. It turns out on this machine that IPM is not commanded with a G98. Instead, G68 commands IPM and G69 is IPR. I could not find any documentation on this, but I figured out that G98 did nothing and so I just started putting in G codes until G68 shifted it to IPM and now I can use feeds when running the rotary tool. I am soooo happy. thank you all.