Well, since you are new here, maybe I have some hope of gitt'n my ShopMill questions answered in the future - should I have some?
One that I couldn't even get an answer to from Siemens themselves, was how to program a rough/semi/finish opp in thread milling?
The blocks are all there, but I could never git it to doo what I expected, and they covered the whole opp in the book in one short paragraph with no examples as I remember.
So I called Siemens and the voice there told me that likely nobody there remembers how to program a 12 yr old control.
What?
I have asked Siemens 2wice over the years for clarification on programming, and neither time were they interested in helping me.
I Shirley don't foresee me ever buying a new Siemens control.
So I ended up just calling the opp 3 times and editing the D each time. It works fine, but likely cost me a smidge in cycle time, but it's not on high volume parts, so ....
And we're not even running those here anymore, so - not an issue right now anyway, but I would be very interested if you have been able to figger it out?
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