Pete Deal
Titanium
- Joined
- Apr 10, 2007
- Location
- Morgantown, WV
I just bought Solidworks 2018 and it includes CAMworks. My intent is to use it with my Brother TC-S2A. I have been incrementally working on getting a post working. Is anybody here using CAMworks with a brother and got a post for it?
I am stuck for the moment with tapping. The brother uses the G77 cycle for rigid tapping. This cycle uses either J(tpi) or I(pitch) to specify the feed rate. Since i am using inch measurements CAMworks spits out a threads per inch number for metric taps which is how the metric taps are specified in the tool crib too. So for a m3x0.5 tap it spits out F.0197 for the tapping feed rate. I am going to call Yamazen to verify but I suspect the G77 cycle will accept J.0197 for the feed rate. But is 4 figures (.0001) good enough for rigid tapping or does it need to go out to 5 (.00001)? I think on my mazak lathe I specify the thread feed out to 5 digits.
Any insight that is out there I would be grateful for.
I am stuck for the moment with tapping. The brother uses the G77 cycle for rigid tapping. This cycle uses either J(tpi) or I(pitch) to specify the feed rate. Since i am using inch measurements CAMworks spits out a threads per inch number for metric taps which is how the metric taps are specified in the tool crib too. So for a m3x0.5 tap it spits out F.0197 for the tapping feed rate. I am going to call Yamazen to verify but I suspect the G77 cycle will accept J.0197 for the feed rate. But is 4 figures (.0001) good enough for rigid tapping or does it need to go out to 5 (.00001)? I think on my mazak lathe I specify the thread feed out to 5 digits.
Any insight that is out there I would be grateful for.