Originally Posted by philram
Originally Posted by RS2300 4x4
Unless you're using PC driven ISO toolpaths Mazak machines are crippled by their "Fisher Price" conversational programming language
We have an FJV20 machining centre at work and the machine tool is superb
Pity it did not come with Heidenhain control
Mark
"Fisher price"
Its all down to the tool description mate and programming experience, you can get them to do anything, believe me.
as for Mazaks not being accurate... thats bollox, i work on aeropace components everyday and it holds the tolerances i usually have to work to ie. +/- 0.0002in.
The Mazak machine tool is the dogs bollox, very accurate and very reliable. Enlighten me as to tool description, the one we have at work won't do a damn thing unless it uses one of the Mazatrol canned cycles which are as much use as rubber lips on a woodpecker for toolmaking. Drilling holes and milling pockets it's great at
Being an expert Mazatrol programmer can you explain how you can machine say a pitch corrected and tapered thread using the Mazatrol programming language on a vertical Mazak machining centre like the FJV20
Edit to add.
At work we use the £90,000 Mazak machining centre for the donkey work and have to rely on an old Bridgeport Interact 1 Mk2 to do all the complicated stuff because it has a FAR more capable control. If you are any good at trigonometry, Pythagoras and geometry you can make full use of the "parametric" programming built into the Heidenhain control system and write programs with relatively few lines that have conditional loops and nesting of subroutines using the "Q" parameters and the fact that you can control EVERY move the machine makes.
Mark