I know zero about fanuc conversion, but don't these boards from Pico Systems sort the ability to reuse the servos
https://pico-systems.com/fanuc_pins.html http://pico-systems.com/osc2.5/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=33 On Fri, 16 Jul 2021, 20:20 Todd Zuercher, <to...@pgrahamdunn.com> wrote: > That decimal point issue can usually be turned on/off with parameter > 3401.0. > > Todd Zuercher > P. Graham Dunn Inc. > 630 Henry Street > Dalton, Ohio 44618 > Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ralph Stirling <ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu> > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 3:07 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) <emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT Fanuc! > > [EXTERNAL EMAIL] Be sure links are safe. > > This Dura is a 2007 model. I haven't tried G20 since we first got it > going, so don't recall exactly what the issues were, but remember being > very startled when all the offsets were suddenly wrong when G20 was called. > Solution was instant and total metrification for cnc machining in my lab > :-). Since few of my students have any significant prior experience > machining, they don't generally grumble about giving up "thou's". > > The other Fanuc quirk that catches them is forgetting decimal points on > whole numbers. X10 is 10microns not 10mm, while X10.0 is 10mm. It's > turned a few parts into big spiral chips on the finishing pass. > > -- Ralph > ________________________________________ > From: Feral Engineer [theferalengin...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 11:55 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT Fanuc! > > CAUTION: This email originated from outside the Walla Walla University > email system. > > > On the dura, is the issue that it just moves the decimal instead of > converting the values? That's just a parameter change. > > I don't recall the dura using tc controls, i thought those started with td? > I may be wrong, it's been a while since i saw one of those in the wild. > > Phil T. > The Feral Engineer > > Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at > > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fc%2Ftheferalengineer&data=04%7C01%7Cralph.stirling%40wallawalla.edu%7Cc0601cb995c746d1254208d9488b64bb%7Cd958f048e43142779c8debfb75e7aa64%7C0%7C0%7C637620585800384160%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=hi3Npyz8PDJOx5pMdcjpSmFxPqukb6BewMMBEFJTGRo%3D&reserved=0 > > Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: > > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Ftheferalengineer&data=04%7C01%7Cralph.stirling%40wallawalla.edu%7Cc0601cb995c746d1254208d9488b64bb%7Cd958f048e43142779c8debfb75e7aa64%7C0%7C0%7C637620585800384160%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2FpEs5khf51sB%2Bo3s2qOcL6ri5AKPL%2BbHHMNQOWG9F98%3D&reserved=0 > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 2:21 PM Ralph Stirling < > ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu> > wrote: > > > I forbid G20 on the Mori Duraturn in my lab for that exact reason. It > > has a Fanuc 0i-TC. I figure 21st century engineering students should > > develop some feel for metric measurements anyway. Just to be safe I > > also require > > G21 on our Mori NVX mill even though it uses a Mits control that > > handles it better. > > > > -- Ralph > > > > On Jul 16, 2021 9:11 AM, Todd Zuercher <to...@pgrahamdunn.com> wrote: > > CAUTION: This email originated from outside the Walla Walla University > > email system. > > > > > > I need to voice some frustration. So pardon the OT post > > > > Fanuc is making me pull my hair out. You'd think a cnc control built > > within the last 20 years could handle switching between G20 and G21 > modes! > > It's a flippin command line code that can be issued in a file for > > goodness sakes! > > > > We bought a used machine that was being used in G21 mode. And I've > > been banging my head on this thing for a week. Can't figure out why > > all of the work coordinates are so screwed up, reset them and then > > they are messed up again, G91G28 commands won't work and keep over > > traveling (but G90G53 does) and the home positions keep moving around. > > Turns out its all because a stupid Fanuc 180iM control built in 2003 > > can't handle switching between G21 and G20 modes without 3 power > > cycles, a couple of parameter changes and completely resetting all the > > work coordinate systems settings. FOR REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even Mach3 > > can do this right! If this is the case why even have G20/G21 available > > as a G-code! It should only be a parameter setting that can't be > > changed from a file. This is even more annoying than > > G92 or jogging a paused program, at least a power cycle can fix those > > screw ups. > > > > Todd Zuercher > > P. 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