Need a bit of help reading some code. I'm not used to Cincinnati's canned cycle layout (been a Fanuc guy most of my career) and the Cincinnati programming manuals I have don't discuss the G23 layout. Here is the bit of code I'm not following:
T2 M6
G97 S2450 M3
G94 F47
G23 G90 X9.625 Y.120 U2.0625
U4.875 R-1 Z-1.6125 ,R1 Q3
K-0.125 W6
G0
M26
The bolded part is the part I'm having trouble with. The program cuts a pocket into a plate with a 1.5" carbide inserted end mill. The pocket is 0.4" deep, 4.775" long, 2.032" wide and both ends have 1" radius. It ramps in instead of plunging. Normally I'm able to read and then watch the program run, look at what's been cut, and figure out the rest from there but in this case I'm lost. I'll go through it piece by piece and explain what I know or think I know and hopefully someone can correct what I have wrong and fill in the blanks. G23 is the canned cycle, rectangular if I'm not mistaken. G90 is absolute positioning. The X and Y are the start position. I would have guessed the U to be the width, but I don't see any cutter comps so I would think that's wrong since a 1.5" endmill with no comps would make a much wider pocket if you told it to cut a 2.0625 wide pocket. Next line makes almost no sense to me at all. Again, I would have guessed the U to be the length but same issue as above, not to mention I don't think it would use "U" for both the X and the Y movements. R-1 I have no idea. Z-1.6125 is how far down it's cutting I'm pretty sure. Then there is a strange comma, followed by an R1 and Q3 that I don't understand. Finally the K-0.125 I believe is the canned cycle amount it moves down and again, no idea what W6 means.
Any help is appreciated.
T2 M6
G97 S2450 M3
G94 F47
G23 G90 X9.625 Y.120 U2.0625
U4.875 R-1 Z-1.6125 ,R1 Q3
K-0.125 W6
G0
M26
The bolded part is the part I'm having trouble with. The program cuts a pocket into a plate with a 1.5" carbide inserted end mill. The pocket is 0.4" deep, 4.775" long, 2.032" wide and both ends have 1" radius. It ramps in instead of plunging. Normally I'm able to read and then watch the program run, look at what's been cut, and figure out the rest from there but in this case I'm lost. I'll go through it piece by piece and explain what I know or think I know and hopefully someone can correct what I have wrong and fill in the blanks. G23 is the canned cycle, rectangular if I'm not mistaken. G90 is absolute positioning. The X and Y are the start position. I would have guessed the U to be the width, but I don't see any cutter comps so I would think that's wrong since a 1.5" endmill with no comps would make a much wider pocket if you told it to cut a 2.0625 wide pocket. Next line makes almost no sense to me at all. Again, I would have guessed the U to be the length but same issue as above, not to mention I don't think it would use "U" for both the X and the Y movements. R-1 I have no idea. Z-1.6125 is how far down it's cutting I'm pretty sure. Then there is a strange comma, followed by an R1 and Q3 that I don't understand. Finally the K-0.125 I believe is the canned cycle amount it moves down and again, no idea what W6 means.
Any help is appreciated.