I'm in New Jersey but I can help with anything applications related you may have questions with. Is it a mapps 4 or 5 machine?
Phil T. The Feral Engineer Check out my LinuxCNC tutorials, machine builds and other antics at www.youtube.com/c/theferalengineer Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: www.patreon.com/theferalengineer On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 3:49 PM Ralph Stirling <ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu> wrote: > No mapps on the Dura. The NVX has mapps. Are you in > Davis? Our NVX was serial number 1, donated from Davis. > They bought our Haas TM-1 as a trade-in and shipped us > the NVX. Only tech support I can get on it is from engineers > at Mori Mfg in Davis, since the 800 tech support line has no > information about this unit. > > -- Ralph > ________________________________________ > From: Feral Engineer [theferalengin...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 12:22 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] OT Fanuc! > > CAUTION: This email originated from outside the Walla Walla University > email system. > > > Yeah we only made those for a few years. Not a big seller. Good machine but > limited in options and the NL/NLX is just a better seller. You have the > straight fanuc or mapps overlay? > > You'll never guess who I work for 😅 > > Phil T. > The Feral Engineer > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021, 3:10 PM Ralph Stirling < > ralph.stirl...@wallawalla.edu> > wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > Help support my channel efforts and coffee addiction: > > > > > > 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. Graham Dunn Inc.< > > > > > > > > > > 630 Henry Street > > > Dalton, Ohio 44618 > > > Phone: (330)828-2105ext. 2031 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
