generic siemens millturn post processor

[AchimN]

We are working on a generic siemens millturn post processor and we would be happy to get some feedback from you before we put it into the installation.
Feel free to download and test it:

http://cam.autodesk.com/posts/?p=siemens_mill-turn

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Hi AchimN, Is there a generic mori-seiki mill-turn post in the works? Many thanks Matthew.

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

@Anonymous

What control is your request based on?

[Anonymous]

It's a NLX 2500Y mill turn lathe, the one I was wanting to have a go at. I was looking through the posts, and I was thinking of modifying a hass one to suit?

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

@Anonymous

Is it a fanuc control or the Mapps?

[Anonymous]

It's Mapps I think. It's the whitey sort of grey one with Mori's own control.

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

@AchimN

I get radius errors on YX machining with X being the toolaxis.

I think the post changes the workplane from toolaxis being in Z to toolaxis being in X so to speak. So rotate it 90 degrees but the machine, of course, doesn't.

So the G2's and G3's are wrong I think.

This is with useArcTurn =  true. If I don't set that to true it will do Y-axis moves during radii when turning.

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

Solved that.

In ArcTurn the machine doesn't like helical moves.

[AchimN]

@Laurens-3DTechDraw Thanks for your feedback, this is fixed into the latest version.

[Anonymous]

I get the message that the second spindle is not available.
Is there a way to make the second spindle available or are you planning to add this function to your post?
Our controller is currently an 840D

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

@Anonymous

By default there is a setting in the post that controls if the machine has got a secondary spindle and it is set to false.

Find this line in the post:

var gotSecondarySpindle = false;

Set it to:

var gotSecondarySpindle = true;

Since the post is still in BETA officially please test carefully.