Orbital and synchro chip function the mx series machine

[Leon82]

We appear to have hit the parameter wheel lottery one of our new machines has this function. Has anyone done anything with it?

In orbit mode the spindle becomes a w-axis and you put a lathe tool in it and it will synchronize spiral around apart to bore a hole or shaft.

 

In synchro chip the C axis becomes spindle 2 with what appears to be a 33 RPM max rotation speed. So you can use it as a VTL or do the synchro chip with it

[AHarrison1]

Sort of like this?

 

[Leon82]

 

[AHarrison1]

Watching some of these machines hurts my head sometimes.

[Werktuigbouwer]

I have a MX850 with only the orbital function (synchro tip was not available back then). We use this function to shape vacuum surfaces (round surfaces, but also squares). These surfaces has to have a circular roughness.

 

When we were looking for a new machine a couple of years ago, the salesman said that you could also combine synchro tip with orbital shaping to combine the speeds. Orbital shaping can be done in every plane. But synchro tip has to be centered on the C-axis.

[cncappsjames]

@Leon82, do you have to documentation for the function?

[Leon82]

5 hours ago, cncappsjames said:

@Leon82, do you have to documentation for the function?

The small white supplement book it comes with.

[Leon82]

It has a couple metric examples. I need to spend some time with it I guess