309 Max Feed Rate Alarm Issue Workaround?

Stoney83 said:

Long story short; I started my business with a Haas TM2P and upgraded to a VF4SS some time ago

All of my original parts where programmed on the TM2P and all the new stuff is programmed for the VF4SS. All of the fixtures are interchangeable and the material I cut is not sensitive to feeds/speeds. So on the VF4SS most of the surfacing operations are programmed at 700 ipm (which the machine never hits) and 7500-12000 RPM.

I would like to simply run the same new programs on the TM2P but get a"309 Max Feed Rate Alarm".... Surprisingly enough there is no issue with the RPM... Parts programmed at 12000 RPM run at 6000 RPM. But anything that exceeds the max feed rate of the TM2P gives an alarm. The amount of programs I have is in the 1000's... I really don't want to edit all the programs (although I could edit certain family's of parts)

So is there a way to default the max feed on the TM2P to 400 ipm (which the machine is rated at) for parts programmed at higher feeds? Any advice would be appreciated!

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DMF_TomB said:

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on some fanac machines it is adjusted by editing a parameter. also most likely it can be just not exceed max feed rate (limit to max feed rate but still run) or be set to give a alarm and stop
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look in parameter list ??

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Hazzert said:

Why make a mountain out of a molehill? If you run it on the VF4 leave it alone, if you run it on the TM2 find and replace on the control assuming all the feed rates are the same. Should take all of 5 minutes and isn't something I'd worry about.

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Stoney83 said:

Its Haas Parameter 59 which is locked out

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$oldpath = "C:\Users\Name\Desktop\nc programs"
$newpath = "C:\Users\Name\Desktop\TM programs\"

$searchfor = "*.nc"
$rename = "-TM.nc"


$File = Get-ChildItem -Path $oldpath -Filter $searchfor -Recurse

Foreach ($f in $File)
{
Copy-Item $f.FullName ($newpath + $f.BaseName + $rename)
}

#find and replace in new path:

$stuff = Get-ChildItem $newpath $searchfor
#add -rec to above for sub dirs
foreach ($prog in $stuff)
{
(Get-Content $prog.PSPath) |
Foreach-Object { $_ -replace "F700.", "F400." } |
Set-Content $prog.PSPath
}

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PriddyShiddy said:

Doing that find/change on the machine is much slower than on the pc just from experience. I have similar issue going between two machines. I use a mouse with programmable buttons including macros but you can use many other methods. I open macro type what would need to be typed ending with control S and exit. Literally 3 seconds per file. Double click to open. Click button 6. Double click next file... I deal with alphabets so any top level change means changing 72 files minimum. Mastercam can't even open a file as fast as I can macro change 5 of them.

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Stoney83 said:

I ended up doing them single file in notepad which took roughly 4 hours. Half of the files where compatible with both machines and the other half on a PC went pretty fast. I'd say around 5 files per minute is what I got without a programmable mouse.

If I ever have to do this again (if we get a new faster machine) I'll have to look into batch editors, power shell and some of the other methods mentioned here.

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DMF_TomB said:

also it could be the machine manufacturer does not want higher feeds. mechanically and cnc control may not be able to handle it

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DMF_TomB said:

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Your in the Haas Section. Have you ever driven a Haas? Aren't you just gurgling yet again?

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machtool said:

You and those PWE (Fanuc speak, and which Haas doesnt have.) & parameters. Did you miss the part about one machine being capable of 700 in/min, and the other pour cousin only being capable of 400 in/min.

He only wants to prevent an alarm on the slower machine.

Your option is to what? Change the parameters to 1500 in/min and 25,000 r,p.m. And all of a sudden you have converted a Haas in to a Robodrill / Brother.

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work
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dick
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head.

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