Reset To G54 Fanuc Parameter 1201

Messing With Parameters Can Be Fatal!!!!!

Reset To G54 Fanuc Parameter, altering this parameter will make the control reset back to G54.

If you find it annoying that your control keeps jumping back to G54 when you press reset change this parameter to a 1.

To change parameters you need to go to the setting screen in MDI.

First of all take a deep breath and prepare yourself.

Now put a 1 in the parameter write box.

Reset To G54 Fanuc Parameter 1201

How annoying is it when you press reset on your Fanuc control and suddenly it dumps the work offset. You know your in G55 and it jumps back to G54.

I reminds me of my teenage years when girls used to hit the reset button on me. I didn’t default to G54 or anything just got really pissed off.

One particularly ungrateful girl dumped me after I had spent nearly an hour trying to explain to her about the system variables on a Fanuc Control. I even offered to lend her the Fanuc Manual.

This parameter is quite difficult to find. Now I know I often go on about me not being very bright but it really is true. I often say to customers I’m the one who just reads all the boring shit in the manuals that you can’t be bothered with and that’s really all I do.

It’s actually true although,0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 I do like to think that I have a good way of explaining things in “layman’s terms” as they call it, profanities included.

(sorry the cat sat on my keyboard again)

This is my cat she is called Hagnes, that’s not a typo. Her name was Agnes but as she is an upper class cat I added an H because posh people add H to a lot of words.

They often say words wrong like they say “help” when they mean “elp” it’s no wonder we don’t know what the fuck they are on about.

This is all really hypocritical from the guy who fuckin hates it when people put gratuitous crap on Linkedin that belongs on TikTok or Facebook. I mean do I really care if you had two eggs for your fuckin breakfast or one.

Anyway she did stand on my fuckin keyboard.

The parameter, the parameter oh yes…..

The reason not many people adjust this parameter is because it’s kind of hidden. That means it’s down to people like me who sit reading Fanuc Parameter Manuals when all other adult men are playing Candy Crush or Cyberpunk 2077.

This Is It Folks (1201 bit 7)

This is the Explanation.

Extract from an ancient Fanuc manual dating back to biblical times.

Always read the small print.

Must admit I didn’t read the little note above until I changed this parameter for one of my victims the other day. It didn’t work. Just altered the one below and Bingo.

This Parameter will Need Changing Too

Phew I need a lie down after that.

This parameter is complicated because it’s all about G code groups. Every G code is in a group it is not something you need to worry too much about until you get on to more advanced Macro Programming.

If you think of it as G codes that you couldn’t have in the same block like G0 G1 G2 and G3.

You can only have one or the other. I mean you couldn’t G0 and G1 together that would be stupid telling the machine to rapid and feed at the same time.

Well…… these are in the same group it’s group 1 actually.

This parameter will reset whatever G code is active in group 14.

Group 14 just happens to be G54 G55 G56 G57 G58 and G59 (your work offsets).

As they are all in the same group (14) only one can be active.

So all it means is when you press reset if the machine was in G55 G56 G57 G58 or G59 it would always default back to G54

Now you know how to reset to G54 by altering a Parameter.

So 1 means don’t reset to G54 and 0 means reset to G54

Here is More Total Confusion

Parameter are listed like this

I’ve written the bit number below because it can be a bit confusing. There are 8 bits beginning with bit zero. The first one is not bit 1 it’s actually bit zero.

So what’s confusing?

Well for one thing they work from right to left.

The other thing is they start at number zero not number one.

It’s all because they are binary numbers without these you and I would still be winding handles and drinking out of our hands and living in caves.

I’m not gonna go there by the way.

Just One Thing

Oh just one other thing before you go off and cripple your machine forever.

Do yourself a favour take a picture of the screen before you change your parameter.

Make a screen shot if you can.

If you ain’t got a camera then you must have a piece of paper so write it down.

(Oh and get a fuckin camera, you dinosaur, they are very useful you can take pictures of your arse and send them to your mates)

Even better back everything up, on our machine that is.

Thanks

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Maximum Wear Offset Fanuc Parameter 5013 5014

Messing With Parameters Can Be Fatal!!!!!

Maximum Wear Offset Fanuc Parameter.

To change parameters you need to go to the setting screen in MDI. Now put a 1 in the parameter write box.

Maximum Wear Offset Fanuc Parameter

Today I want to talk about safety. (you know it’s that boring shit at the front of your machine manual that nobody reads).

Anyway in your offset table, if your machine is less than 30 years old you will have a table for wear and a table for geometry.

Well when Mr Fanuc first thought of this, his idea was that instead of keep altering the big number in the Geometry you would have this small wear adjustment. He also gave us the input plus key so you wouldn’t need to do any arithmetic.

The machine would add the wear and geometry together and bang you would end up with a correct part. Newer controls even display the result for you.

See Below Cool!!!!

Safety

Always use the wear and never alter the big geometry figure unless you are resetting the tool.

The blue W or G on the left hand side can be a bit confusing. Nothing to do with G codes or incremental movements on a CNC Lathe

G stands for geometry and (yes you guessed it) W stands for wear.

Maximum Wear Offset Fanuc Parameter

Let’s get on with it.

You would think I would be bored by now and off to write another rock tune that no one will ever buy or listen to, but I’m not.

These articles are about parameters and just generally fucking them up so your machine is crippled.

To Be Real Super Safe

No you don’t need to put condoms on all of your fingers or anything like that.

There is a parameter that can limit the amount you can add to the wear and another that controls the maximum this can reach.

If you think about this. Imagine if you put the apprentice on the machine and you want to be sure he doesn’t start a nuclear war with a foreign dictator.

Oh by the way there’s not a parameter for that.

What you could do is teach him to use wear and not geometry. When the wear reaches the maximum the machine will give an alarm. You will then know it’s time to look at the tool.

Also he couldn’t input a massive amount and crash the machine.

Let’s be honest here, if that wear figure is high something is obviously wrong and you need to re- measure the tool or chuck it in the dustbin.

So here is the parameter.

Maximum Wear Offset Fanuc Parameter

The above parameter (5014) stops you from altering the wear offset by anymore than .1 at a time (don’t be greedy).

The above parameter (5013) means that the maximum amount you could have in the wear offset is .3

Don’t panic when you get one of these.

It just means you broke your own rule when you promised never to exceed .1 when you alter your tool wear.

I hope you have enjoyed this parameter as much as I have (in which case we have both been very bored)

Other Parameters Of Interest

3203 Clear MDI Screen

3204 Unlock Program 9000 to 9999 and 8000 to 8999 to Edit

3401 Calculator Type Decimal Point or Integer

6005 Allows the Use of Local Subroutines (Newer Control)

6050-6059  Allows you to Call a 9000 series Program with a G Code

6080-6089 Allows you to Call a 9000 series Program with An M Code

That’s it away you go.

Oh just one other thing before you go off and cripple your machine forever.

Do yourself a favour take a picture of the screen before you change your parameter.

If you aint got a camera then you must have a piece of paper so write it down.

(Oh and get a camera they are very useful you can take pictures of your arse and send them to your mates)

Even better back everything up.

Thanks

If you have been affected by any of the issues in this post or need CNC Counselling then contact me.

If you want to learn to program CNC Milling Machines

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Fanuc Parameters 3101 Clear Buffer

Fanuc Parameters 3101 Clear Buffer

Fanuc Parameters, does it really annoy you when you swap screens on your Fanuc control and you loose whatever you just typed in?

Well it’s OK, no more sleepless nights. It doesn’t have to be that way thanks to Parameter 3101

Messing With Fanuc Parameters Can Be Fatal!!!!!

To change a Fanuc Parameter you need to go to the setting screen in MDI. Now put a 1 in the parameter write box.

Now We Can Get This Party Started

This is how Parameter 3101 looks in the Fanuc Manual

It’s Fanuc Parameters 3101 bit 1

When this is a zero. If you change screens your code is lost.

Now here’s one I prepared before the show

Vegan Homemade Portabello Mushroom Black Bean Burger with Fries

This is how it works when you change the Fanuc Parameters 3101 to 1

The Dreaded Options Fanuc Parameters

I once bought a new car and naively thought it would be just like the one I saw advertised on the telly.

On some cars everything is a fuckin option. Well unfortunately it can be a bit like that with CNC controls.

It’s not all doom and gloom, a lot of the things you can’t get the control to do are just settings and parameters.

Keep reading my articles and you’ll find out what they are.

All this boring shit really does have a point to it.

If you have a lot of similar controls in your company it’s a good idea to try n set them all up the same way.

Don’t get me started on Haas.

OK You Started It

In my opinion by far the greatest thing about a Haas control is the program restart.

Guess what: most people have it turned off. I would liken it to switching off your central heating in the winter and making a fire with some sticks in the middle of the room.

You can restart anywhere in the program and the machine magically gets its digital shit together.

It gets the right tool, sorts out all the M codes, just about everything. Try it today it’s amazing.

Setting 36 Turns it On

Other Parameters Of Interest

3203 Clear MDI Screen

3204 Unlock Program 9000 to 9999 and 8000 to 8999 to Edit

3401 Calculator Type Decimal Point or Integer

6005 Allows the Use of Local Subroutines (Newer Control)

6050-6059  Allows you to Call a 9000 series Program with a G Code

6080-6089 Allows you to Call a 9000 series Program with An M Code

That’s it away you go.

Oh just one other thing before you go off and cripple your machine forever.

Do yourself a favour take a picture of the screen before you change a parameter.

If you aint got a camera then you must have a piece of paper.

Even better back everything up.

Thanks

If you have been affected by any of the issues in this post or need CNC Counselling then contact me.

Or call us

If you want to learn to program CNC Milling Machines

Look no further Contact CNC Training Centre