Month: October 2022

October 11, 2022
David
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Using Rads and Chamfers Fanuc Control

Rads and Chamfers Fanuc, yes you heard it there is a quick way of doing it just like on Heidenhain.

On a Fanuc control they offer two ways of adding rads and chamfers, one is pants and the other one is great.

It really is a pain in the arse to get some of these features working but it’s definitely worth the effort to sort it out. Read this article and get to work. Your life will never be the same.

The first way uses R and R- or K and K- depending on which way your going. Now I won’t be explaining how this works because really I haven’t got a fuckin clue

It’s way too complicated. If I did know I wouldn’t waste wearing out my keyboard or damaging my manicured nails to write an article.

Anyway it will only do orthogonal lines (if you don’t know what orthogonal means don’t worry it just means your a bit thick).

Rads and Chamfers Fanuc

This by no means implies that I think all goats are stupid (technically known as goatism).

Orthogonal means relating to 90 degree lines

Now lets do it my way and you get to do shit like this.

Parameters…. Shit!!!!!

First of all you got to alter some parameters.

8134 3453 allows you to use ,R and ,C (Rads and Chamfers)

Well maybe you just need to check them (they might already be ok).

Anyway just read this article it tells you how to do it.

Right having done that here is a simple turned part.

Here is the code if you want to program it……

Now if you want to add corner rads and chamfers it looks like this.

Oh and if you got the time and the patience to write the code here is what it should look like……

The Code

(Maybe some of my smart arse readers would like to check it, don’t tell me if it’s wrong because I don’t handle failure well.)

So with a few commas an shit it’s real easy, you should try it some time.

And that’s it job done. Just remember to check those parameters,

By the way if you wreck your machine altering parameters please don’t contact me I’ll just deny all knowledge.

If you want to learn about rads and chamfers on a Sinumeric Siemens 840D read this

Thanks for watching and reading

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David
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Convert Manual Guide Program to CNC Code

Category : Manual Guide

Let’s learn to Convert Manual Guide programs into normal vanilla CNC Code.

Manual Guide i is very popular now on Fanuc Controls. I’ve got to be honest I’m not a great fan. There are parts of it that are very useful. But anyway knowing me I’ll probably change my mind.

I do work in some companies that just use manual guide and nothing else. One such customer got me in to do some training and also helping to develop an Edgecam post for a Toshiba Machine with a Fanuc Control.

As part of the development of the post I needed some sample code. Well they didn’t have much so I decided to convert one of the Manual Guide Programs to a standard CNC Program so I could see exactly what code it was using.

Change Your Underwear Regularly

My thoughts were that I’d forget how to do it as it’s not something I do that often. You know it’s a bit like changing your underpants, if you don’t do it too often you can forget how and then somehow you just avoid it.