If your Mitsubishi control is a Meldas control. I have done everything I described in this video on a Meldas control with no problem. I'm not completely understanding what you are referring to when you say. Linear move opposite to the programmed move.

Holy that's pretty good.

Thanks Kastrup2dk. You are correct. It is difficult to cover everything, hence the name "a small explanation". In fact the Mazatrol doesn't require a G43 or a D command at all. Only when you want to do full 5 axis. Than it needs a G43.4 command.

This is actually the second video I have done on this subject. I did one a while back called a explanation of cutter comp. in that video I do get into lathe tip comp.

Thanks Max. I hope you keep good notes, or put them into your program of the offsets to use. This is a recipe for disaster if someone else runs your program not knowing this. There is a way to do what you are doing with user and machine variables and changing the D value with commands in the code of the program. It wouldn't eliminate the need to call a additional D command in the code. But at least you could use only one offset. That way at the top of the tool change you could specify your user variables for your different D values used in the program and not worry about two different offsets.

@@EdgePrecision LoL.. Yeah, Sometimes it feels like I spend more time on the instruction comments than I do programming. Often times one of my operators will actually ask me to use different D values, and I have to go back and leave myself notes on why. I agree though, documenting changes is imperative.

@@EdgePrecision .. Also, its important to note that I do not program to center line tool paths.. the CAM software places the periphery of the tool on the contour I want to cut. All my guys use G41 or 42 for is to "size" features to spec. A few tenths here or there. So, nothing catastrophic can happen if someone is running the program for the first time. Sorry, I should have clarified that in my initial comment.

Thank you for.... sorry typo

You do have to be careful if you switch direction not allowing enough space for the tool to fit in the couture. In these cases if that cant be avoided it would be better not to use cutter comp.

Yes I have run my Mitsubishi horizontal mill that way sense I’ve owned it. The Mazak doesn’t even need it. The D command is a modal command. It only changes when you command a new D value. Or at reset. Similar to say a fixture offset.

@@EdgePrecision I run mostly Mazak at my current shop and love how simple their offsets work but occasionally we run eia programs and it almost seems backwards the way the offset works in eia. Seems to work a little differently than mills I've run in the past

I use all the same Mazatrol tool data for my tools in a eia program. The only exception is the tool tip comp direction for lathe turning tools. That has to handled in the most screwy way you can imagine. It is to difficult to describe in this comment. That is If you want to use the same Mazatrol tool description information for turning tools in a eia program. But the milling tools I have no problems.

@@EdgePrecision Hmmm...perhaps I'm doing something wrong then. When I run a mazatrol program, I base my tool comp off from the actual diameter where as when I run an eia program, I have to put negative half the diameter of the described tool in the actual diameter cor. say a half inch would be -.25 and then say it's ground down .01, I'd have to write it as -.255

I don't have to do that. But on my older control (640m Pro) the wear offsets for only milling tools don't work. I have to change the whole offset number. But the wear offsets do work for milling tools. We have a newer Integrex !400 here with the Martix 2 control. Everything thing works as normal even the wear. Except the lathe tool tip comp direction. They have to do the same thing I do. The guy that runs the i400 runs both eia and Mazatrol programms. He even runs eia programs inside a Mazatrol program.

Yes the Mazak doesn’t need them either.

(i know its a year later) but on our fanuc 18i-tb control we do not need the D in every line. the post however puts it in and it is so annoying.

In Fusion in control means you will make all your settings for tool radius comp (Cutter comp) at the machine in the control. You will need to enter the tools diameter in the offset at the machines control. The software will not offset the tool path to the center-line of the tool. But it will apply the proper G41 or G42 in the code for the machine to do so. Wear is exactly the same as this except the software offsets the tool path to the center-line of the tool. So at the machine you don't enter a diameter for your tool (Leave it at zero) and use only the wear offset to make only small changes. They both will do the same thing just different way to handle it at the machines control.

Edge Precision in fusion I encountered this problem if I used the wear, I could not use a value e.g greater than 0.050 mm, the alarm was generated if we use the mode in control whit the same parameters but whit tools diameters in the offset at the machines control everything is working fine I do not get any alarm anymore

@@ganeaalinalexandru2280 This sounds like a setting in your machines control. There may be some kind of parameter that controls how big the wear offset can be. My cnc tool and cutter grinder has such settings on its grinding wheel offsets.

@@ganeaalinalexandru2280 As Peter said, your max wear of .050 mm is a parameter setting of your machine. For example, one of the lathes I run at work will not let you use a wear offset greater then 0.1 inch.

hrc-rr Yes we used a negative value

It’s my understanding that as long as you do under a certain amount of Busness a year you can use it for free. You should go to their web site for more information.

You can, and you should. It’s a brilliant tool even just for creating visual representations of ideas. The CAM is just a small part of the potential uses of Fusion.

You may find your computer hasn't sufficient capacity.

I made this video a while ago. Can you be a little more specific. Do you need some help with cutter comp and how it works?

Wow you say that like you somehow could hand write a program that required complex surfacing. I like how he is explaining some.e basics for ppl

@@kmaber9698 maybe not, but you should know what the code means when youre looking at it.... i meet a lot of machinists that dont even know standard M and G codes.

@@run-cnc now that I agree with you on

@@kmaber9698 I do it 8 hours a day every day

I do this 69hrs every week