Denford Software & Machines

Hey, I have a 1985 (or 1984, cant remember exactly) denford Triac mill. I have bought Bobcad/cam to use with this machine, but i cant find what the post processor for this machine is?
On the Bobcad software i couldnt see any denford processor's so thought it may be an older fanuc system?
Any help would be much appreciated. I dont really want to have to convert the machine to mach 3 as i would like to use the machine as standard every now and then.

Thankyou in advance

No Idea, but since you brought the s/w from Bobcad I would have thought the first port of call is Bobcad....

If you can't find any info from BobCAD, try a standard Fanuc 0Mx post

If cycles aren't supported, there should be an option to expand them in the CAM processor.

Grant_robochallenge wrote:Hey, I have a 1985 (or 1984, cant remember exactly) denford Triac mill. I have bought Bobcad/cam to use with this machine, but i cant find what the post processor for this machine is?
On the Bobcad software i couldnt see any denford processor's so thought it may be an older fanuc system?
Any help would be much appreciated. I dont really want to have to convert the machine to mach 3 as i would like to use the machine as standard every now and then.

Thankyou in advance

I have had the BobCAD/CAM V22 software for more than a year and yes the best place to start is with BobCAD, if you have the Manuals for your Denford machine then in them should be a list of all the "G" and "M" codes that apply to your control, if you have any programs in the machine that work or you can write a short one then do all that and send all the info to BobCAD Support support@bobcad.com and they will actually write a Post Processor specifically for your control for free.

If it is the Denford control then I`m not sure if it is Fanuc based or not but most probably is and if you know what you`re doing then it isn`t hard with the BobCAD Mill Post Editor to modify one of the existing Posts to suit your machine control.

I have modified a few Posts for myself and others so I may be able to give you a hand if it doesn`t get too complicated.

BobCAD support Forum is here http://s229444871.onlinehome.us/bobcads ... /index.php

Good luck.

Regards
Rob

Thank you very much for that, I am away untill mid next week but i will deffinatly send them a copy of a program and see what they can do for me.
I'll take a look through that forum too! thanks!