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• Mazak Programming Examples

Chris, don't worry about it, I was dead set against conversational, and then had two mazaks dumped into my lap. On the mills, you are somewhat limited, but for simple stuff, you'll like it, hole patterns, tapping, that type of stuff is almost a no-brainer. On a 2 axis lathe, its fricken' fantastic. I never ever want to program G-code for a lathe ever again in my life. If you actually understand G-code and coordinate systems, and not just how to hit the 'post' button, you'll be fine. It may be a little frustrating at first, but I've had people with no programming/cnc experience writing their own programs on a 2 lathe in under 2 hours.

I can do more than click post. I hand wrote everything for 2 years. Now I cam unless writing a macro b program. I just don't know if the fact that I haven't done mazatrol programming if that will effect me getting the job or not.It shouldn't. Just go into it with an open mind. I didn't want a single thing to do with conversational, nothing at all, until I got my hands on it.

Don't be a g-code snob, you know enough that you'll take to it like a fish to water, and once you learn it, you'll know when to and when not to use it. When I was hiring people, G-code was more important to me than Mazatrol/conversational. If they knew G-code, teaching them conversational was about a 10 minute lesson, if they wanted to learn it, not whine that they didn't get it because there wasn't a G83 drilling cycle, hitting the 'drill' button, then the 'peck' button seemed beyond some, these where generally the same people that couldn't figure how to longhand out a drilling cycle on a machine with no canned cycles.

Good luck on adding another trick to your basket of goodies. You're much better off knowing G code to Mazatrol than the other way. Within the Mazatrol you can, and often do use simple G codes under 'manual programming' to make the tool do something that the Mazak control doesn't easily do. Comes in handy for clearing tools in odd situations, or forcing the control to go where it doesn't want to. I managed to figure out a 640T control on an SQT 250M on my own. Took the manuals home and slept with 'em.

Took forever, but figured it out. When I went to the programming class, things started to really make sense and my speed improved a couple orders of magnitude.

I program G with our Fadal mill, and conversational with the Mazak chucker.would hate to have to do the chucker in G!!! Have yet to need to program off the machine with the Mazak.grab the print, program it at the control. The icons and some of the procedures can be a bit weird, but once you get the feel of what's going on, it's actually kinda fun. You'll also learn the art of lying to Mazatrol. Serious caveat.input ALL your tool data FIRST, the chuck jaw data, then start the programming, or you'll go bald trying to figure out why it won't work. Looking on the bright side. You've got 312 friends here who have no idea what they're talking about, but are real willing to help!

Don't try to B.S. 'em about knowing Mazatrol if you don't. Do tell 'em that you can learn it quickly, and are looking forward to it.

Since we don't know what machine/control you'll be using, you'll need to post that first thing with any question. My personal (and first) disaster that put a humble T-shirt on me was inadvertently using 0 for the change point instead of a 1. It's little things like that you need to be careful about. Remembering to enable auto coolant for the 1st part of the morning. Learning how to navigate the menus.and looking at programs already in the machine to see what they do and how they appear. One thing about Mazatrol (or Mazalarm, the alternate frequent spelling) that kicks ass is the ability to copy a 'Unit' from another program that does what you need, and just changing the particulars for the job. Another great feature, for turning as an example, is the ability and ease of using a U-drill as a drill (as an example T3A.tool 3, description/offsets A), then calling out T3C to bore that same hole.

Mazak Programming Examples

In description C you've told the control it's a boring bar.and it don't care. Total time to write the code for drilling AND boring with the same tool, about 3 minutes. +/- a little.

And probably less. Hey guys, seems like you know something about mazak controls and I have a related issue I was hoping you could help me with. I just purchased a 2004 mazak 510 w/fusion 640 control.

I have operated Haas and Okuma vmc's and found the programming similar except program names, start & end sequences, work origin call up etc. I would pay someone locally to come in for a couple of hours to help get me going but these machines are not very common around here. The local Mazak dealer is too busy setting up new machines to spare someone to train me. I am planning to program with ISO G code. A sample program would be a great help to start sorting out some of these questions. Any help of any kind would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Kevin.