pharaun159
Plastic
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2016
Alright fellas, heres the situation. My employer bought a Star swiss turn about 5 years ago. Since day one, not a single person has be able to legitly program this damn thing. Over the 5 years, 4 machinists have had their hands in this pie as well as two "head programmers". Now i have drawn the short stick it seems, and my dual turn mazak has now been paired with this star with the instructions of... "figure it out".. Such is life. The downside is i actually learned programming in mazitrol. I never actually learned g code. I can stumblingly read it, but i never have actually had to program using gcode. As im working with this, that part isnt so bad. Whats killing me is all the damn mcodes. The thing seems to have 8 fing mcodes for every little thing. I see that certain codes tell it when to do simultaneous actions, synchronous actions, ect. Id be able to figure this out if i knew what the proper procedure was for how to "think" about programming this thing. There are current programs that kind of work. Some have wild offsets that seem to limp it along. Others are auto generated by sone programming tool that left with a previous head programmer. Those programs are the worst ones. My question to you guys is, besides the obvious need for actual training, are there any reasources or reading material that can help me out here? We currently have no head programmer.