Looking for help with a Post Processor for a FAGOR 8025/8030 M controller

[glen.lundrigan]

I am very new to the whole CNC milling concepts since just recently gaining access to an old milling machine.  Currently I am having trouble finding a suitable post processor that can work with an old FAGOR 8025/8030 controller on a 2½ axis mill.  I found something close here in the forums but it still cannot produce clean code for me.  Some of the issues I encounter are;

(a) comments too long - I managed to tweak the PP to solve this for the most part or at least eliminate some of the Fusion360 auto generated comments.

(b) controller cannot handle the tool selection code so I have to remove or comment out - haven't solved that one in the PP yet.

(c) Controller overrides my current 0,0 settings for X and Y when the code outputs a G53 or G54 so I currently have to remove or comment out that line.

(d) the biggest issue though is the fact the controller can only handle movement in two axis at a time so I cannot have X,Y and Z movements on the same line of code.  I believe any combination of two axis will work but I have not proven this yet.

  I'll admit the issue could just be my lack of understanding of how to create the proper tool path settings.  Turning off lead-in and lead out for example has helped reduce the problem for some tool paths.

Note: Initially I had access to someone who was running Mastercam and with some tweaks to a suitable post processor we were able to have that program generate working code that did not need modifications, but I have been so lucky with Fusion 360 so far.

  Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Glen

[seth.madore]

1) Which post processor are you using?

2) Can you share the code that was produced by MasterCAM? (it does need to have a .nc or .txt file extension on it, please modify accordingly)

[glen.lundrigan]

Seth;

  Thanks for getting back to me.  I am just getting back to this and it's been a while since I last had a go at it.  I have attached a test nc program (00321.txt) that was generated by Mastercam and I recall we were successful in getting it to run even though we did not actually mill anything.   As for the post processor, I am using a very slightly modified version of the Autodesk PP for a Fagor 8037/8055.  Let me know if you need to see a copy of that .cps file.  I did find another PP on the forum which was supposedly had been modified for the 8025 controller but it seemed to have the same issues so I have stuck with modifying the original file.

Finally, I have attached a small sample file (8001.txt) I created today.  It is supposed to mill a small arc but I get several errors even after I remove lines 165 and 180.

Note: In case it makes a difference, I am using the personal-use version of Fusion360.

Thank You

Glen

[seth.madore]

Yes, please share the .cps file you were working with.

[glen.lundrigan]

Seth;

  Sorry if I did not reply to this sooner.  I don't recall ever seeing this message.  Anyway, attached is the CPS file I am currently using.