Terry, I can feel your pain. There is nothing wrong with Fanuc or any other machine control. The issue is with the legacy CAD/CAM software that chose to try to move cutter comp out of the machine and into the cad/cam suite. This was a easy way out for the cam software developers, just as is tool paths that are a gazillion lines instead of true arc commands.
Very modern CAD/CAM is knowledge based, it learns your programing techniques - those programming styles need to evolve. 25 years ago I started programming CNC mill code for Bandit controls, those controls did not have cutter comp as an option ( I think it was out but at a huge cost to upgrade. ) Later when I started dealing with machines with true cutter comp I always used true tool radius / exact part geometry. The numbers from my programs can be used without modification to generate prints. There are numerous benefits. Lets say a tool path was written for a 1/2" tool, but you only have a 7/16 available. The program will run just fine as is with only the tool dia ( radius) value changed in the tool table. I run these programs on Fanuc and Okuma without issues. You should not have to lie to the machine, (at least not too often.) I know this will be an ongoing issue for those want to just import a file then export G-code without any real thought involved. Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
