The way most Controls work, when you program a Feedrate "
F" is:
1) inch per minute
or
2) millimeter per minute
Sounds like your Control is setup for "inch per minute" (IPM), I work in metric because thats what my Control is setup to run (German Machine).
Thanks, thats what I needed to know. I was looking into the system constants, and there are a couple that may be set to ignore speeds in programs, while using speeds in the "cutting package". I will check with higher ups about this. It also appears that our machines are set to read F codes as IPM instead of percentage (F100 =100 inches per minute) according to the programming manual.
Russ |
When I referred to percentage, I was talking about the Feed overide dial on your control panel.
So, say you have a program that is running, & the Feedrate (
F) is programmed at "
F100" in the G-Code.
If you turn the Feed overide dial on your control panel, down to 70%, that would be the equivalent of programming the G-Code to "
F70"
Hope I don't make things confusing
.