Mark Hughes
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fishtruk wrote:
Hey MARK,
With Radius set to No it works fine. Do you have any idea why it was erroring out? It always happened in a lead-out from the cut - but when I crunched the numbers they were all good...
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Howdy There,
I actually registered just to say thank you for posting this post processor! It has saved my bacon. I have noticed a few items.
When I try to do drilling it doesn't do chains. It only does the first hole. Also sometimes it seems to skip the first hole. Any ideas on that?
Great work again! I just got a bedmill that uses a 3300m and I was worried after running the generic post processor I was either going to have to write my own, modify the existing or just get mad and convert the machine to mach 3 🙂
All the best,
Attached is a post processor I have been using on a Anilam 3000M bed mill, based on the work of HughesTooling.
Some of the changes include: Modal Fixutures, Tooling changes, Coolant. Additionally the output file is formatted in a way that is easy to read in a text editor.
Important notes:
The modal fixtures still need some work, they do not always restart the spindle.
I have not had too much time with this specific post, so just to be safe I suggest skimming through the output code.
More updates coming soon...
Best,
Peter
Mark,
I am using an anilam 1100m and found this post processor extremely helpful.
The entire thread helped me get up and running.
Peck drilling is also not working for me but its on my list of things to do.
I made a change to remove the moves to Z0 at the beginning and end of the cycle if anyone else needs this version just PM me.
@Anonymous Your post helped me end a day of banging my head on the wall. I didn't mess with the adjustments but found the setting for circle centers was set to incremental instead of modal..... What a difference that one setting can make 🙂
If I can get a version with a working peck drill cycle maybe I will post it.
@alistairjcook Did you find a fix for your problem, lost track of this thread so didn't see your question. Are you seeing the problem with all files even something simple. Page error sounds like a memory problem so a small file might load.
Mark
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Hello Mark,
I've been following the thread on Anilam conversational posts over the last year, and I'm very grateful that you shared your work through this forum. I bought a milling machine with Anilam 1100 software, but have resolved not had time to sort out using the cnc mode until now. As it works well in DRO mode, I've made do with that.
I have tried creating a CAM output files for the mill, but I seemed to have particular issues loading lines for curves Arc Cw etc.., it just missed them completely.
So I had a closer look last night, I had been using the Generic Anilam Conversational post version 41369, but I found the translation at var xOutput = createVariable({prefix:"X "}, xyzFormat); was putting a space betwen the axis and value, and that's what the 1100 software didn't like. Removing the space has resolved that issue; quite a relief.
A fairly recent enquiry from fishtruk about a post for his Anilam 1100 had a reply that suggested going to the Post Library. In the official area for Anilam, the current post is Anilam ISO, a Generic milling post for Anilam ISO (revision 42145). The extension on this is 'nc', rather than 'm', and to my eyes the sample code shown doesn't look very conversational. It also misses the options to turn off RPM and coolant commands, which my machine does not support.
So I'm thinking I would be better using your suggested post modification - I think 9106 was your most recent offering, which seems to include the options pertinent to the needs of the 1100; does that make sense, or should I be using something else ?
Thanks,
Rob
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