The software sat idle for a few years after our lathe hand moved on and we haven’t been able to find a replacement. So now I’ve been slowly going through everything and getting our Haas st25 going again. Before I updated it would post my finish passes with a g70 and just call the roughing canned cycle N numbers. Now when ever I try to post anything with a basic finish selected it leaves whatever stock was left in the roughing cycle and posts in separate lines no longer using the g70. I have double and triple check every step and the post nothing has changed except me updating. Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated.
When you updated, did you keep your post processor? Basically are you using the same post processor and machine definition file you were before?
Yes I kept the same post and machine profile
Are these on the same files or a new file?
When you are using canned turning cycles the tool, offset…etc must match exactly and the rough and finish operations must be in the same feature for the canned cycle to output.
Those are my initial thoughts.
HTH Alex
Thank you for the help everything matched thats what was so perplexing about the whole thing. I ended up doing a full uninstall and reinstall of bobcad and now it mostly works but now the issue is no canned peck drilling cycles will post it posts everything as a standard drilling(g81) even if I select peck or high speed peck but maybe this is just something going on with the post but at first glance nothing is popping out to me.
Interesting. On the Posting page of the Hole wizard, do you have Separate Moves selected or Canned cycles?
Also, if you are using the same post processor and you are sure it’s not been overwritten then it should not have changed but there are post questions that set if canned drilling cycles should be used. Here is pic showing these in the Two_Line post that gets installed with the software but the post question numbers are the same.
It is set for canned I ended up looking through the post and for whatever reason the g83 wasn’t set in the no dwell portion of the peck drilling part of the post. I’ve been running parts for the last few day and that seems to have fixed the peck drilling problem. I still have the issue here and there where it wont output a auto finish cycle for turning and facing. The current program has a turned ID, OD, and face but the only finish that’s output with the g70 instead of separate moves is the OD. Everything seems to match from the rough settings to the finish settings.
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