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I don't know how Centroid handles it, but a lot of other machines, say you have a 12 station toolchanger, you call up any hand loaded tools as T13, T14, etc. the machine knows that means it waits for you to complete a manual tool change and then hit cycle start again. You can revert back to the tool...

Your program feed rate is for 32 pitch, not 24. Can't help with the rest, but at 640rpm you are only moving 20ipm.

Marty helped me do a conversion on my Milltronics knee mill just a few weeks back. It is that simple, it does work that well.... We pulled it apart on a Friday and had it back together and running on Sunday, spent one more day sorting out a few things, and back to running parts. Look for the thread ...

And an update from me... Marty was basically able to pull off the complete update in a weekend. We had to add the Quencharcs and the wiring to activate the brake upon e-stop, but that was minimal. We had been working on some parts prior to the swap, running 25 pieces for a product we make. After the...

And an update from me... Marty was basically able to pull off the complete update in a weekend. We had to add the Quencharcs and the wiring to activate the brake upon e-stop, but that was minimal. We had been working on some parts prior to the swap, running 25 pieces for a product we make. After the...

Well, I'll use the M25 then. I don't type any different as I put this in my post processor and it's automatically inserted into the program.

Thanks for explaining that. I only use incremental in subprograms, so not sure that it would ever be an issue.

I noticed that M25 looks like it would do the same thing, not sure if one is better than the other.

Hi Keith, Already have it downloaded and read it numerous times. I sat in front of the machine today and played with some different combinations and settled on G53 Z0 as my command to send the Z axis to home for tool changes. I modified the existing program I have for the next operation on some part...

I have been using Fanuc machines since the late 70's and we have alway been in the habit of programming a safe line, like G17 G20 G40 G80 G90, I know that most of these are the default for the machine, but I've been in the habit of putting that line in just in case I had changed to G18 or forgot to ...