[mastercamguru]

Does anyone have a trick to make Mastercam post G13's?

My first thought was to edit the posting of an unused custom drill cycle to get it done. But it isn't that simple, it would work for the first hole them output x-y locations. I need to retract and repeat at next x-y location which is assumed in canned cycles. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[mastercamguru]

Well I guess I figured out a solution first. If anyone else has a better idea, lets have it. What I found in Mpmaster post is a perfect fit for me. Custom drill cycle 9 is coded to output subprogram calls. The prog # is passed through the peck value, so if I drill a series of points and put 1234 in as 1st peck I get:
X0. Y0. M98 P1234
X1. Y0. M98 P1234
X2. Y0. M98 P1234,Etc.
Now I can just write the G13"s into a subprogram.

[tobyaxis]

Have you asked the guys over on the Emastercam Board yet?

[mastercamguru]

Will do.

[tobyaxis]

Great, see you there. BTW: sorry I forgot to post a hyperlink to the sight

[mastercamguru]

Problem solved: Now have G13's posting in subs using custom drill cycle.

The guys on emastercam forum really know the MP language well.
Anyone needing this type of posting can see my code on the emastercam forum.

[tobyaxis]

Problem solved: Now have G13's posting in subs using custom drill cycle.

The guys on emastercam forum really know the MP language well.
Anyone needing this type of posting can see my code on the emastercam forum.

Congrats on your success!!!!!

[24 t buckes]

what is the hyperlink to emastercam??

[mastercamguru]

www.emastercam.com

[24 t buckes]

Thanks

[Mike Mattera]

I read thru this and couldn't find what the G13 was actually supposed to do on you machine/control. Or what the format was supposed to look like.

Mike Mattera

[mastercamguru]

Thanks for the reply Mike:

I have a few custom cycles built for my specific purposes. Mostly hermetic feedthru features, pilot bores for 10-48 or 1/4-36 thds, flat bottom pilots for rolltaps, and countersink routines are what I use most. The idea was to eliminate the need to manually write subs for these features as Mastercam doesn't have native support for G13 calls. I have routines for common features written so far. You can check them out if you like. I have just posted a new topic at emastercam "V9 Mpmaster post question", maybe you have some input there as well. I wanted to upload file to Jay's ftp(to link to it in my post), but it wants user & passwd so I'll upload it here.
The post is working well with no bugs so far. Just annoyances.(read the emastercam post)

Anyways here is what I have so far.

[mastercamguru]

If anyone is looking for this kind of functionality in X2 here's my latest revision.
Still a work in progress, but getting close.

Added corner speed feedrate factoring--lazy man"s additional offsets with toolpath subs and nested custom drill cycles.

The beginning of the post shows what mi's and mr's are used.

No transform subs supported yet, but soon.

Just can't find the time to dive in and "git-R-done".

[mastercamguru]

Sorry Mike. I missed the question and I haven't been here for a while.

G13 works like circle mill with 180 degree sweep lead in/out arcs.

Should look like this: G13 I.0704 F5. D25

This interpolates a rad of .0704" at 5 ipm using D25 cutter comp.

To machine multiple bores/counterbores I can pick the center points for a custom drill cycle instead of chaining all the geometry.

Then enter depths and radii in custom drill parameters.

Feed rates and cutter comps are input on misc integers page, as are rapid plane/feed plane and a trigger to post as subs or not.