Hi Guys;
I have this Bridgeport Series 1 V2 XT with DX 32 control.
The issue at hand is the repetitive cycles. I can read the manual ok, but they only include a partial example and it does not make sense to one who is new to it.
I'm trying to machine 22 parts from a single piece of stock. Do the spot drills, go to slots, then cut out the profile and the part drops from the plate ready for de-burring.
I don't want to go through 4 tool changes per instance.
I just installed Bobcad V25 on here, and it spit out program.
Miles of it. Not intelligent program, just plentiful. It completely tool-pathed all 22 parts and the files are bigger than a house. Hundreds of blocks.
I have 256K
So, I need to do a layered part, and repeat every operation down the stock previous to tool change.
And I cannot for the life of me get that to happen.
Now I figured I could just Bobcad a layered part and use the DX 32 repetitive cycle that goes something like =N_/_ and somehow I have to figure out how to tell it to travel over to the next location, possibly in g91 then mirror it for nesting and come back on the opposite edge .... but I can't figure out this danged programmers guide.
I have failed to ever make it happen. I can't repeat anything but modal drill cycles and the easy stuff.
Same with the bolt circle program. It doesn't provide a full example... and I have been unable by trial and error, been able to make it go.
Macros are just way too deep for me to make sense of at this point.
So....
I should be able to make these parts in under a hundred blocks of code. Then I could actually read it and edit it in my lifespan. And it wouldn't require a Cray Super-computer to do it.
We put a guy on the moon with less than I have.
I can upgrade the BMDC to 2 megabytes for about $1700.00, or I can setup drip feed too. I could never read or edit all the junk.
But I can't see the excuse for miles of low quality code that are unmanageable where inches of intelligent code would do it.
So, any thoughts on this?
Oh, the guys at Bobcad are great. I ain't kicking on them. I think there is something I am missing, and I just am not looking at it correctly.
The code is solid. Post is clean. But no canned cycles seem to be in it other than the simple stuff like drill and bore.
I think I am just outside where they get off the train. They are responsive... but I really think there is a smart and elegant way to solve this rather than block coding it to smithereens.
These little old machines have been out there a long time and I am certain I am not the only guy that thought he might do more than one part at a time.
A couple months ago I couldn't tell g code from a tennis shoe, so I am new... but I have made a few paying jobs come off the machine now.
Thanks!
Mark
I have this Bridgeport Series 1 V2 XT with DX 32 control.
The issue at hand is the repetitive cycles. I can read the manual ok, but they only include a partial example and it does not make sense to one who is new to it.
I'm trying to machine 22 parts from a single piece of stock. Do the spot drills, go to slots, then cut out the profile and the part drops from the plate ready for de-burring.
I don't want to go through 4 tool changes per instance.
I just installed Bobcad V25 on here, and it spit out program.
Miles of it. Not intelligent program, just plentiful. It completely tool-pathed all 22 parts and the files are bigger than a house. Hundreds of blocks.
I have 256K
So, I need to do a layered part, and repeat every operation down the stock previous to tool change.
And I cannot for the life of me get that to happen.
Now I figured I could just Bobcad a layered part and use the DX 32 repetitive cycle that goes something like =N_/_ and somehow I have to figure out how to tell it to travel over to the next location, possibly in g91 then mirror it for nesting and come back on the opposite edge .... but I can't figure out this danged programmers guide.
I have failed to ever make it happen. I can't repeat anything but modal drill cycles and the easy stuff.
Same with the bolt circle program. It doesn't provide a full example... and I have been unable by trial and error, been able to make it go.
Macros are just way too deep for me to make sense of at this point.
So....
I should be able to make these parts in under a hundred blocks of code. Then I could actually read it and edit it in my lifespan. And it wouldn't require a Cray Super-computer to do it.
We put a guy on the moon with less than I have.
I can upgrade the BMDC to 2 megabytes for about $1700.00, or I can setup drip feed too. I could never read or edit all the junk.
But I can't see the excuse for miles of low quality code that are unmanageable where inches of intelligent code would do it.
So, any thoughts on this?
Oh, the guys at Bobcad are great. I ain't kicking on them. I think there is something I am missing, and I just am not looking at it correctly.
The code is solid. Post is clean. But no canned cycles seem to be in it other than the simple stuff like drill and bore.
I think I am just outside where they get off the train. They are responsive... but I really think there is a smart and elegant way to solve this rather than block coding it to smithereens.
These little old machines have been out there a long time and I am certain I am not the only guy that thought he might do more than one part at a time.
A couple months ago I couldn't tell g code from a tennis shoe, so I am new... but I have made a few paying jobs come off the machine now.
Thanks!
Mark