Hurco TMM8 Post processor

[jap0075]

Recently our shop has been looking at purchasing a Hurco TMM8 lathe which has live tooling. I've searched all over the forums and haven't been able to find a post for this machine. Hurco's website says you can use a Fanuc 0M post but I can't seem to find that in the fusion post processor library either. The shop who currently owns the machine was using Gibbs Cam with a custom post, so that may be the way we have to go. I hate to leave Fusion but just can't seem to figure out how to use the lathe with Fusion.

Thanks for any help!

[info]

hi i suggest you to write a post on this address https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/hsm-post-processor-forum/bd-p/218 . there are official Autodesk technicians here and they will surely help you.
greetings

[someonesomewhere111]

Just program it conversationally.  Hurco's conversational is pretty awesome.

[John_Wright]

I have not used Fusion with a Hurco Lathe, but I had to do very little rewriting of the generic post processor for my hurco mills.

I used the generic post processor and just had to alter the G codes and M codes that the mill didn't like.

There were a couple of other issues with sending the z axis home on completion of the programme, and tool changes (for some reason it took "prepare next tool" as "change tool",  but again it was very simple to alter the post processor to do this.

I can't imagine that you would have any difficulty with getting support on here to modify the generic FANUC post processor to your needs. 

One thing that I did find useful having a sample of the Gcode that I knew worked with the mill, and comparing it to what fusion was outputting. I could then tweak the post until it matched. In this case, you could compare a simple programme from Gibbs Cam, and try and the post processor to see what Fusion outputs.

[someonesomewhere111]

The preloading tool causing a tool change on a hurco is fixed by changing that setting on the hurco control to M6 causes tool change.  😉

[jap0075]

Thanks, I tried that but unfortunately no one has replied yet. 

[jap0075]

Thanks for the reply, I'll get a sample code from the previous owner and see what I can do. I figured it wouldn't be as easy as finding a Haas post from fusion lol. 

I am however still having a problem with modifying the Fanuc post. I can't seem to find any parameters within the post to tell it that the machine doesn't have a y axis. It has live tooling, but requires the c axis to interpolate movement. Every time I try to post a code for some simple milling it will output y movements. I believe I saw something in one post like "has y-axis = 2" or something to that effect, but there were too many other problems with that post.

Anyway, I'll keep trying. Thanks again for the help.

[jap0075]

I've seen the newer Hurco lathes and I agree the conversational programming is great, but I forgot to check it out on the one we're looking at. I believe the lathe is a 2008. Is the conversational programming similar to the newer version?