But not optimized. If you are doing many parts, none of this shit cuts the mustard.
And a chamfer, bfd, it's a couple of triangles and a radius or two. Scary.
ON EDIT: I'm not talking high-volume, automotive-automated-balls-out here, but typical job-shop-type work:
Chamfers and radiuses can be a big deal on lathe parts. Especially when between tapered surfaces. Takes some pretty good trigonometry skills (and time) to manually solve the points for a corner radius between a tapered line blending into another tapered line, or a curved line...(Not talking CAD here...)
With Mazatrol is a R.xxx or C.xxx prefix (or suffix for end-point R or C) on the program line. No math, no CAD needed.
With g-code/CAD, it's back to the drawing board. With Mazatrol you tweak the C or R value on that line (which is easy to find in the program because it's abbreviated English words, blueprint dimensions, and no minus Z values) , and run the next part. No fudging, no saying "to hell with it, it's just a chamfer or radius"....
(And I realize Fanuc has radii and chamfer functions, but what a pain-in-the-ass to use.)
Tool nose radius compensation is another pain-in-the-ass for G-code driven lathes. You actually have to tell each tool in the program to do it (often fraught with ticky-tacky alarms), and by not using TNR the more-complex machined shapes just aren't as accurate --- especially the chamfers and radiuses.
Doesn't matter for roughing, but for finishing, proper TNR usage is important on a LOT of lathe work.
In Mazatrol you describe the tool nose radius in the Tool Data page (actually all tool geometries), and never have to think about it again. All toolpaths are calculated using this specific tool data. Radii and tapers and C's and R's are easy, they are accurate, easy to tweak, and by doing so we make a better looking part.
And all this mumbo-jumbo about Mazatrol not creating efficient lathe programs, it's just hogwash. The machine uses said-Tool Data info to automatically establish the closest turret indexing position that clears all tools from the boundaries of your stock. No time wasted there.
Again, you don't have to think about it.
Mazatrol makes efficient cutting paths in turning as well. After all, turning toolpaths aren't rocket science, it's just feed, speed, and DOC. You can easily change anything with the roughing and finishing paths. You have control. And you're not cutting air.
Because it's conversational, doesn't mean it's inefficient.
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