Post Processor for Miyano? Simulating problems

[Anonymous]

Will fusion add more mill/turn posts? Specifically for Miyano BNA 42S with fanuc controlling, also has anyone had problems simulating since the update?

Thank you!

[nick_p3dcreations]

That's probably going to be in roll-your-own territory- You can likely run in a basic capacity with one of the generic fanuc posts, but to use your live tools and subspindle you'll probably to pay someone to set that up in the post or do the legwork yourself. You might find another machine (HAAS or Doosan maybe?) with a similar config that would be a better starting point- IIRC John Grimsmo did that for his Nakamura. 

I have a KIA SKT21LMS and I'd like to be able to use Fusion turning now that there are round boring bars available, so I'll be going down the same path to modify a post in a similar fashion for my machine. 

Late last year I ended up getting FeatureCAM to program my KIA lathe with a similar configuration, and that's been great because of the full machine simulation, but I'm not a big fan of the interface and workflow compared to fusion. There was already a featurecam post in existence for it and with some minor tweaks it worked well. 

[seth.madore]

As @nick_p3dcreations suggested, a fully functioning post is going to be the territory of a Post Builder, such as a reseller. A list is available here

If you start off with one that is relatively close, the financial pain should be somewhat limited.

[nick_p3dcreations]

So an update on this just for the next person who comes across this thread, since everyone is always looking for a post for specific machines. If you've got a Fanuc based live tool machine with subspindle, the HAAS ST series posts are really close and well made. I had to change how some drilling cycles were handled, of course had to change out all of the Mcodes and such, and had to add some additional formatting rules (all caps on things, different decimal behavior on peck drilling, etc) but altogether it took me about a week of on-and-off work to get my KIA SKT21LMS up and running with all features from the HAAS ST20 post. It was a good bit of trial and error, and some careful testing, but I'm really happy with the result and the subspindle and C axis milling works way better than I could have ever made it work by modifying the stock FANUC post.
Now that I've been in there a few times, I am pretty confident I can add just about any functionality I want to any of my machines. 

So don't be afraid to get your hands dirty! It's really empowering when you are in full control of your software and machine, and can program and run with 100% confidence since there is no hand coding required. 

[seth.madore]

@nick_p3dcreations , excellent testimony, thank you for sharing your findings!