I was wondering if in centroid there is naturally a heating cycle for the spindle and the axes of my lathe?
I think it could be useful for milling machines as well.
My machine sometimes stays for more than a week without working, and having an automatic cycle that we can set according to the strokes of our axes would be a great advantage I think
Just make a quick program, say "warmup.cnc", and call that when necessary. You can use parameter #25012 to calculate elapsed time (or G4 pause commands) if you need to ramp up your spindle.
It would be tough to make a generic warmup routine since everyone's machinery is different.
Cheers,
Tom
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Just edit the macro that Keith posted to adjust the run times for your particular spindle/motor. I know HSD and a couple of other spindle manufacturers publish speeds and run times for their warm up procedure. If you are not that particular then just make something up.
I edited my homing macro so that it asks me at the end of homing sequence if I want to run the spindle warm up procedure. So when I first turn on my machine it homes to my switches and then asks me "Do you want to run the spindle warm up?" If I say no if just finishes homing and nothing happens. If I say yes it automatically runs the spindle warm up macro. This moves my spindle to my park position at the rear of the table and runs the warm up procedure. This takes 8 minutes. Once complete the spindle will return to machine 0,0 ready to go to work.
cnckeith wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 4:57 pm
cool i like that
Thanks Keith, it just made sense and eliminated another step in my workflow. I also don't have to waste a button for spindle warm up. I really try to streamline as much as possible with custom macros.
Brilliant thank you to you for all this info, I will work on it.
for the moment I am not yet too comfortable with all that is macro.
This scares me a little. But I will work on it.
ShawnM wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 11:43 am
Just edit the macro that Keith posted to adjust the run times for your particular spindle/motor. I know HSD and a couple of other spindle manufacturers publish speeds and run times for their warm up procedure. If you are not that particular then just make something up.
I edited my homing macro so that it asks me at the end of homing sequence if I want to run the spindle warm up procedure. So when I first turn on my machine it homes to my switches and then asks me "Do you want to run the spindle warm up?" If I say no if just finishes homing and nothing happens. If I say yes it automatically runs the spindle warm up macro. This moves my spindle to my park position at the rear of the table and runs the warm up procedure. This takes 8 minutes. Once complete the spindle will return to machine 0,0 ready to go to work.
I'm really a fan of this possibility.
Would it be possible for you to show me what it looks like?
Thanks a lot
I added this to the end of my homing macro to run my spindle warm up macro. Be sure and change the code below to whatever your spindle warm up macro number is. Is there a different or better way? Probably but this code works for me. I'm not a programmer either but I can fumble my way through code and make it work for me.
#100 = 0
N200 ;Prompt user to run the spindle warm up procedure
M224 #100 "#)Machine home is now set.\n\n#)Would you like to run the spindle warm up procedure?\n#)Press 1 for Yes\n#)Press 2 for No\n#)"
IF #50001 ;Force lookahead to stop processing
IF #100 == 1 THEN GOTO 225 ;jumps to 225 and runs my spindle warm up procedure which is mfunc53.mac
IF #50001 ;Force lookahead to stop processing
IF #100 == 2 THEN GOTO 300 ;jumps to the end and quits
IF #50001 ;Force lookahead to stop processing
IF #100 > 2 THEN GOTO 200 ;Go back to prompt user if invalid value was selected
IF #50001 ;Force lookahead to stop processing
N225
G65 "C:\cncm\mfunc53.mac"
N300 ;end of macro
