[bogan]

Good to hear, so is this the fanuc machine definition running with the postprocessor I made, or is it all fanuc?

How did you get it to do index rotation in solidcam?

[vakeiros]

it's all fanuc, the only change I made was the retational axis. By default it came with the table rotating over Z and I changed to rotate over X.

in solid cam what I did was:
1 - made the milling operation on the first face
2 - used the Transform function on that operation (right click the operation, click transform), a window will appear, select the operation on that window and after that click the button 4th axis.
3 - now a new window will appear and you can you insert the rotations you want. in my case I needed the perform the same operation in 3 "equal sides" of a cylinder so I checked the box "include initial position" and it add the angle "0º", then I inserted 2 steps of 120º and it adds the 120º and 240º and it will perform the same operation at 0º, 120º and 240º.
like I said it was a very simple part but it's my very first use of the automated 4th axis.

attached I leave the post processors that I changed. I'll tell again, they are the exact same as the originals but the rotational axis is over the X or Y (fanuc_2013_4X_custom rotates over X and the fanuc_2013_4Y_custom rotates over Y)

[brianbonedoc]

Thanks for your work but can you upload the .gpp files as the VMID is just for the machine part of things.


Thanks!

[vakeiros]

sorry about that, here is the pre processor. it's the same for both systems.

best regards

[tonyouness]

Hi
do u have this post for alphacam??

[jailbreaker]

Well, the answer to your question is in the thread's title... only solidcam...