Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Conversational Programming
Posted by
A&K ERWOOD
on 2000-05-04 03:13:10 UTC
G'Day from Down under,
This is my first time to put my 2 cents worth in, I have been lurking in the shadows for a while now.
I own and operate a very small one man business, here in Oz. I have two cnc lathes one only 18mths old with a Fanuc control
the other is a VERY OLD Mori-Seiki lathe that I hope to get up and running soon under stepper motor control , and hopefully
EMC. And my other cnc machine is a 41/2 axis machining centre, I say 41/2 because it is a full 4 axis machine and I have made a 5th
axis which just indexes a set amount on receiving a M-code.
I have followed the last couple of days in regard to converstional programming, and thought I might put my two cents worth in.
Why not just write a program to act as an interface between a pc and a normal old G-code type control. I have!!!
It works quite ok. It has been my experience that when programming conversationally there are still times when good old
G-codes are needed to do a 'tricky bit' which the converstional control can't quite do properly. And this happens quite
often in complex milling.
Anyway if anyone is interested, I would be willing to send you a copy of my 'still very buggy' prototype lathe program.
I am not a very good programmer (as a matter of fact this is my first program written in VB6), so if some of you guys want to help
develop this type of programming, I may be interested. At the present I have just about got the lathe program going, except for the
backplotting side of things which definetly needs a bit of work yet. A mill version will follow next (hopefully, if I haven't
pulled all my hair out by then).
Regard
Andrew Erwood
A&K Engineering
a+k@...
This is my first time to put my 2 cents worth in, I have been lurking in the shadows for a while now.
I own and operate a very small one man business, here in Oz. I have two cnc lathes one only 18mths old with a Fanuc control
the other is a VERY OLD Mori-Seiki lathe that I hope to get up and running soon under stepper motor control , and hopefully
EMC. And my other cnc machine is a 41/2 axis machining centre, I say 41/2 because it is a full 4 axis machine and I have made a 5th
axis which just indexes a set amount on receiving a M-code.
I have followed the last couple of days in regard to converstional programming, and thought I might put my two cents worth in.
Why not just write a program to act as an interface between a pc and a normal old G-code type control. I have!!!
It works quite ok. It has been my experience that when programming conversationally there are still times when good old
G-codes are needed to do a 'tricky bit' which the converstional control can't quite do properly. And this happens quite
often in complex milling.
Anyway if anyone is interested, I would be willing to send you a copy of my 'still very buggy' prototype lathe program.
I am not a very good programmer (as a matter of fact this is my first program written in VB6), so if some of you guys want to help
develop this type of programming, I may be interested. At the present I have just about got the lathe program going, except for the
backplotting side of things which definetly needs a bit of work yet. A mill version will follow next (hopefully, if I haven't
pulled all my hair out by then).
Regard
Andrew Erwood
A&K Engineering
a+k@...
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