Retrofitting a 1986 Maho MH400E

Thanks for that Andy. Where do we find those new pin names? Any Idea when 2.8 will be released?
Mark

RotarySMP wrote: Thanks for that Andy. Where do we find those new pin names?

linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/man/man9/motion.9.html

Any Idea when 2.8 will be released?

No idea. I was hoping that it would be around last new-year.
The release manager has gone rather quiet....

This is the first tool path I have generated with CAM.


As you can see I screwed up the tool material setting, and number of flutes, and left it as 2 flute HSS, when it was an 8mm carbide four flute, explaining the 1/4 feedrate it should have had.

I used a FANUC 11m PP to generate the code. Then edited it on a PC in wordpad to delete some of the initial codes which LinuxCNC doesn't have (G23?), and also edited the code in mousepad. It ran fine, but the code part of the window only shows a line one, the rest is blank.



I have attached the gcode file. I would appreciate if anyone could please point out what LinuxCNC is being tripped up on.

Hi Mark,

my first gues, the comment probably?
I can try to run the code on my machine tomorrow.

Thanks Hanno, I did delete that G01 from the header, as LinuxCNC doesn't like a G01 without an F.
Mark

This time I hand coded this tool path, as I wanted to get a better feel for spiral paths. The feed rate is the correct 700mm/min for the 8mm 4 flute carbide this time.

Mark