On Donnerstag, 16. April 2020, 04:58:29 CEST Jared McLaughlin wrote: > I haven't seen a canned cycle for pocketing that I really liked. The > more I learn about machining, the less I like them.
I only know 2 Variants: Siemens and Heidenhain. Siemens is pretty hard stuff. You need to know the meaning and sequence/order of the cycle parameters. On recent controller I saw, that on programming cycles at the machine, the controller shows a picture of the cycle and highlights each parameter. But coding a cycle from outside the machine its a real pain, where you often end in counting the parameters. In Heidenhain pocket definition is separated from execution of the cycle and on cycle definition named parameters (Q-words) are used. The Q-words are common to all cycles, so coding some time you learn to know the Q-words. Beside that, on writing a cycle at the machine, the editor writes the whole command with all Q-words (each on a line) and every Q-word has its meaning in comment. Between execution of a defined cycle values of parameters may be changed. That way it is easy to mill different pockets with very few lines of code. linuxcnc already supports named parameters, so may be the Heidenhain way is easier to adopt. Reinhard _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
