Re: The First No Bull**** Blog Devoted To Telling The Truth About

On May 12, 2:51=A0pm, Cliff <Clhupr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 13:42:07 -0700 (PDT), jmeye...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >Actually Cliff, I'm an AE for a Machine Tool Dealer in SoCal and
> >believe it or not, Jon was actually one of my customers for about a
> >month or so (perhaps longer - not sure when he actually started where
> >he was at).
>
> =A0 =A0Perhaps about a week or so before?
Don't know..

> =A0 Place had a "1/2 million dollar Matsuura horizontal with 12 pallets
ha=
s a
> conveyor that dumps chips into a small dumpster."?
Ummm, it actually has 11 Pallets... <grin> but that's ok, who's
counting <grin> Actually 11 is a somewhat odd number in his defense.
<grin>

> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:48:44 -0700, jon_banquer
>
> <jon_banq...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >"So what your saying is you can't program using MasterCAM or configure
> >its post processor to output good G-Code for you 100% of the time?"
> >Some of our posts do need some work. Fixing them is not our shops /
> >the owners / my =A0highest priority right now.
>
When is having a Post and Run Post Processor NOT a
priority??? :headscratch: Possibly when all you do is ask for stuff
and never actually accomplish anything??? (just thinking out loud and
not saying anything in particular)


> >Had some good intelligent
> >questions for a change. I was able to provide some useful information
> >to him. He uncovered a bug in Fanuc's Manual Guide-i that I was
> >unaware of (but that the builder in question was aware of)
>
> =A0 Was he trying to edit a program as one was running?
> =A0 Perhaps the same program that was running?

I think that was my first question IIRC. His answer was no. Matsuuras
with 30i Controls run in Manual Guide-i always - unless you change the
14000 paramaters to operate with the standard FANUC Operator
Interface. Now the bug/issue is between Loading Programs via PCMCIA/
MEM CARD... while the machine is in cycle. I don;t knwo all the
particulars so I will not elaborate further. On other machines with
31i controls, this can be accomplished (reading programs into memory
while the machie is in cycle) I even wrote a procedure with Control
Screen Shots and everything.