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cncsnw wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:35 pm Be sure to home the "source" machine before you take a report and transfer it to the offline computer. That way the resulting cncm.job.xml will indicate that home has been set.

AHAHA it's that simple? I'll capture the report and try it at home tonight! Thanks.

Hi Keith, sorry for the delayed reply... got sidetracked. I generated a report off of one our machines, then loaded that as a backup on an offline machine. That resulted in the interfaces matching, but we lost some critical functionality along the way. Immediately after installing, programming and g...

Pretty sure this isn't the right board for this question, but nowhere else seemed more reasonable... Mods are invited to move it wherever is most appropriate. My students will be using the demo version of intercon for programming homework. I am aware that they will be limited to 20 intercon units -...

G118 was what I needed. This code gave the desired result. G1 Z0. F5.; FEED DOWN G18; XZ PLANE SELECT G03 G118 P#105 X[#101-#102+#103] Z-#102 R#102 F25.; ROTATE ARC PLANE & CUT ARC G1 G91 X-.1; MOVE OFF The intended takeaway is to demonstrate that even complex shapes can often be reduced to simp...

Apparently G68 doesn't behave the way I thought it did. I am trying to cut a quarter-toroidal pocket (center is open, so tool clearance isn't an issue there.) The idea was to run a G18 XZ arc through 90 degrees, then G68 a small amount, then loop that all the way around. Almost works too, but the ar...

Doesn't the M0 code turn off the spindle? What does the manual say? Have you tried it? I was curious, so I went and tried it for you. Worked as desired for me, spindle stayed running. O1000 G00 G17 G20 G40 G49 G80 G90; SAFETY G54; WCS M25; TOOL CHANGE POSITION T1 M6; TOOL CHANGE X0. Y0. S300 M3; PL...

Unless you've made a habit of full-rapid drilling (jk) I am going to guess that your pneumatic drawbar is exceeding the recommended torque for your spindle. Basically draw-forming the spindle bore to match your collets... those pneumatic units are just repurposed impact drivers, and can generate vas...

You can do that with the common idiom of: IF [#50001] What that does, literally, is to do nothing if INP1 is closed, and do nothing if INP1 is open. But as a side effect, it forces the parser to wait until all preceding lines have been executed before it checks on the state of INP1. Hah! I'll remem...

Thanks for the feedback. I like your IF [something is not right] THEN ERROR Hey buddy something is not right! but won't that tend to generate the error long before the program pointer actually gets to that block, due to lookahead? Fine under normal circumstances, but for teaching debugging, I'd like...

Alright, I found a solution that is only kinda hacky. M225 displays a message for an amount of time. The explanation in the manual is BAD, and it took me a while to figure it out. #100=0 M225 #100 "VALUE OUT OF RANGE - CHECK 'K' VALUE" Shows VALUE OUT OF RANGE - CHECK 'K' VALUE in a box on...