5 axis rotary

[KRZYSZTOFS]

How to force  B axis to  rotate ,transform  on top plane fo axample  12 holes 30 deg  use B axis not changing xy coordination .Thanks

[crazy^millman]

Toolpath Transform.

 

Have a great day.

[Gracjan aka Pullo]

Do  you mean you want the machine to be stationary and you would like to drill holes so that just the table rotates? . First of all I think it would be the C-axis as C rotates around Z.

In the drill cycle there is a tab Axis Control / Rorary axis control. In Rotation  type click 3-axis (rotate about Z-axis)

 

 

Gracjan

[Gracjan aka Pullo]

Crazy guy's  solution will be the one to most probably work ,  Tried both methods on my post / machine and drilling was definitely not  setup to work with C-axis rotating (Heidenhain/ DMG DMU 60). Tranform by toolplane went thru' without a glitch. 

 

Gracjan

[KRZYSZTOFS]

I am using  5 axis haas post I have tryed toolpath transform , rotate obout top plane and g codes look like this

T1 M6
G0 G54 G90 X0. Y2. B0. A0. S951 M3
M10
M12
G43 H1 Z2.
G81 G98 Z-1. R.1 F4.26
G80
X-2. Y0.                                                I like that to be  B90.
G81 G98 Z-1. R.1 F4.26
G80
X0. Y-2.                                                                         B180.
G81 G98 Z-1. R.1 F4.26
G80
M5
G0 G28 G91 Z0.
M30

[Gracjan aka Pullo]

send me your post and I will send you the toolpath back

 

Gracjan

 

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[Gracjan aka Pullo]

Just to be sure of the Transform parameters:

 

Type : Rotate

Method : Tool plane , include orogin : off, save views can be on or off

Source : NCI 

 

On the Roate page:

 

Instances : 11

center of rotation : your center of rotation.

angles : 30 and 30 

Rotation view : same as your WCS

[Gracjan aka Pullo]

I tried the generic HAAS 5ax post VF-TR Series and no meaningful code came out of there

[KRZYSZTOFS]

I am using generic haas 5axis vf-tr series post .

Thanks

[crazy^millman]

Hum get a hold of your dealer and see if they can do a gotomeeting with you. Pretty straight forward stuff and should have no problems doing what I said. If you are then call your dealer and have them walk you through it.

 

HTH

[Gracjan aka Pullo]

Krzysztof , in my 20+ years of experience I have only seen one postprocessor  that worked straight out of the box. If you don't tweak , they would not be calling it a postprocessor.

 

Gracjan

[KRZYSZTOFS]

Can you please tell me where to change the  post  so it can work like I want it.

Thanks

[crazy^millman]

Hum get a hold of your dealer and see if they can do a gotomeeting with you. Pretty straight forward stuff and should have no problems doing what I said. If you are then call your dealer and have them walk you through it.

 

HTH

Like I said get a hold of your dealer. Problem is there are people who use boot leg copies of Mastercam. We cannot know if you are a legal user or not. The fact you are on one of the most pirated versions make me at least weary to help any more than I have already done. Provide me a sim number I can check back to CNC with and I will be glad to go further. I have worked hard to be a legal user and will help anyone, but until we know more about you I have done as much as I can do.

[KRZYSZTOFS]

I work as programmer for Power plant services  at Merlose park  il , we are using  orginal version mastercam for at least 10 years   ,serial no . 3889 .

Thanks

[GIZMO 21]

Get in touch with shopware their really good guys over there.i usually send them a z2g file and them guys jump on it right away.

[GIZMO 21]

Its true what ron says about piracy, so yes i agree with him.

[KRZYSZTOFS]

Like i posted before we are using genuine version of mastercam  and I known I can contact shopware with any problem i have but if every mastercam user call  a dealers  with all problems nobody have to post here and nobady can lern

from it.

Thanks

[GIZMO 21]

Like i posted before we are using genuine version of mastercam and I known I can contact shopware with any problem i have but if every mastercam user call a dealers with all problems nobody have to post here and nobady can lern

from it.

Thanks

You're right about that, but when you ask for help with a post issue it's a little bit more involved.

Someone would have to take a look at your post and pinpoint the problem, and you are in the right place for

Help , and to learn mastercam.

[Dan@home]

Has this post (doing similar tool paths) worked for you before?

[KRZYSZTOFS]

It is a first time I need to use transform about top plane I known it can be made manualy creating sub program

But I like to make it using mastercam.

[Gracjan aka Pullo]

Hey Krzysztof , I'll take a look at it. plz  send me the your pst file as I am sure you must have done something to it . 

Usually when someone has a problem like that , there is a part rusting on the machine and there is pressure to get it done yesterday. I take it this is not the case....

I'll look at it tonite.

 

GRacjan

[Dan@home]

Back in the X4 days, we did a contour tool path using the rotary C axis (Top plane) on a 5X table/table machine. We had to customize the default 4X post.

The 5X post wouldn't do it. Only thing is I forgot what we did to the post. The post is at work and still used on occasion.