A fixture offset calculator custom macro
By Brian Glick of Vermeer Corporation Here is a macro I developed to allow operators to calculate their own fixture offsets right on the...
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Mike Lynch
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Another custom macro to truncate decimal places
By Tom Sorrentino I was reading "The Optional Stop newsletter, Issue 85", particularly the "Macro Maven: Rounding or truncating to a...
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Mike Lynch
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Improving the fixture offset recording custom macro
Suggested by Alejandro Garcia of Extreme Machine, Inc. In a previous blog post, we published a custom macro to record the settings for...
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Mike Lynch
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Creating your own parameters
Parameters are used by control manufacturers to allow machine tool builders – and end users – to specify many things about the individual...
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Mike Lynch
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What else do you need to count?
Counting cycles can be helpful in several ways. Past articles in The Optional Stop have shown two great applications. One will serve as a...
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Mike Lynch
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A Custom Macro math question
I can perform a square-root operation such as #100=SQRT[9] which of course sets the #100 to 3. However I can't for the life of me figure...
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Mike Lynch
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Using Custom Macro to streamline tool length measurements
This rather advanced technique assumes your control has parametric programming (example shown in custom macro B). If you have this...
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Mike Lynch
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A bolt circle parametric program in three versions
FANUC's Custom Macro Here is a custom macro that machines a bolt hole pattern. First, let's look at an example calling program O0008...
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Mike Lynch
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Quick Intro to Parametric Programming
The best kept secret of CNC! There are few CNC people that even know what parametric programming is -- and fewer still that know how to...
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Mike Lynch
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How Can You Tell if Your Machine Has Custom Macro?
Throughout this website, we talk a lot about parametric programming. The most popular version of parametric programming is FANUC's Custom...
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