John Kasunick wrote
This doesn't directly answer your question about jog-while-paused, but I'm curious about the specific use case you describe. How do you decide when to change the insert? Do you wait until it chips or starts cutting poorly? Or do you always change it at the same point because you know it won't last all the way through? We let the insert go as long as possible usually..ceramic inserts will start to notch on the interrupted cut (60-62 Rc) if we can make it all of the way through we will and let the finish tool clean it up. If you wait for it to chip or stop cutting properly, it seems to me that it isn't good enough to simply pause, jog away, change the insert, jog back, and resume. Don't you have to actually back up in the program a bit and re-machine the area that was improperly cut? Not really on roughing cuts. We always use a fresh tool on finish cuts to make sure any sins get covered up. On the other hand, if you have decided to always change the insert at the 2/3 mark just to be safe, then can't you simply program the change in the g-code? At the end of a pass, rapid over to a safe spot, stop the spindle, and do the change. Then start the next pass. See above... not always the case. In a production situation this would work in our case we are running 8 pieces of this particular job and that is a lot for us. Jeff Johnson john...@superiorroll.com Superior Roll & Turning 734-279-1831 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
