Hello people,
I'm a student at a machining factory and am trying to make the programming easier on our mazak horizontal center nexus 4000-ii with a pallettech system. I would like to make a EIA program that will allow us to program 1 product in mazatrol and copy this for a variable number of products. For example our pallets has 4 sides (rows) with 6 products on each side. All products must be machined the same way on three different sides. I want to generate all work piece coordinates automatically by only give the variable y coordinate(the pieces are vertically fixed). I managed to write a EIA program that does this for me, only problem is that it doesn't work with the order for tools given in mazatrol.
So now its machining one product at the time and changes tools every product and that costs a lot of time. The problem I think is that it is not possible to make a loop in mazatrol, so it has to be done in EIA. Only in a loop the order of tools are only executed one product at the time. Is there a way to repeat multiple machining operations and keep the order of tools given in Mazatrol? I was hoping someone has done this before and knows how to solve this.
Greetings,
Joeri
For example:
See the attachment for the loop in EIA, in this case I want 24 products, in a other EIA program I generate all the work piece coordinates from g.54.1p1 to g54.1.p24. The program Po003 is a mazatrol program and is centering and drilling a pattern and make threadholes. In the mazatrol program the center gains priority number one, the drill bit number two and the thread-cutting tool number three. When the machine reads this, it first centers on g54.1p1, then drills and make the thread, meaning three tool changes per product. I would like he first centers all the products on the pallet.
I'm a student at a machining factory and am trying to make the programming easier on our mazak horizontal center nexus 4000-ii with a pallettech system. I would like to make a EIA program that will allow us to program 1 product in mazatrol and copy this for a variable number of products. For example our pallets has 4 sides (rows) with 6 products on each side. All products must be machined the same way on three different sides. I want to generate all work piece coordinates automatically by only give the variable y coordinate(the pieces are vertically fixed). I managed to write a EIA program that does this for me, only problem is that it doesn't work with the order for tools given in mazatrol.
So now its machining one product at the time and changes tools every product and that costs a lot of time. The problem I think is that it is not possible to make a loop in mazatrol, so it has to be done in EIA. Only in a loop the order of tools are only executed one product at the time. Is there a way to repeat multiple machining operations and keep the order of tools given in Mazatrol? I was hoping someone has done this before and knows how to solve this.
Greetings,
Joeri
For example:
See the attachment for the loop in EIA, in this case I want 24 products, in a other EIA program I generate all the work piece coordinates from g.54.1p1 to g54.1.p24. The program Po003 is a mazatrol program and is centering and drilling a pattern and make threadholes. In the mazatrol program the center gains priority number one, the drill bit number two and the thread-cutting tool number three. When the machine reads this, it first centers on g54.1p1, then drills and make the thread, meaning three tool changes per product. I would like he first centers all the products on the pallet.