Cplanes

[KevinPro61]

ok,

I have a 2" thick block and I want to work from the bottom side first. I set up a new wcs as a copy of the bottom wcs -2.00 in Z. I set my Tplane and Cplane to the new wcs. I spot and drill some holes thru. Now I want to work on the top side. I want to csink the holes that were drilled thru by copying the spot drill ops and changing the tplane and cplane to the top. When I do this all of the z values change relative to the original plane. I am sure there is a way of doing this so as to not loose my z values.

 

Thanks

Kevin

[Thad]

Why do you copy your bottom view? Why not just change to the bottom WCS, click the "=" icon to set T/C Plane equal to it. Do your work. Do the same for the top WCS.

 

Thad

[Thad]

Oops.

[KevinPro61]

I set the new wcs to -2.00 so I can get a good verify for all setups.

[KevinPro61]

Thad,

I do change them on the T/C planes page, that is when all of the z values adjust.

[Thad]

When you use F9, do you have a brown and a blue origin marker?

 

Thad

[Thad]

Is this for V9 or X? Just so you know, when you post a new message you can select from a variety of icons for your message. Recently, an X icon was added. This is helpful for other forum members. For example, if I see the lathe icon, I usually don't even read the post since I don't have lathe and I don't know anything about it.

 

Just some friendly advice.

 

Thad

[KevinPro61]

Thanks for the friendly advice. V9. The way that I did it I do not get any blue lines.

[Guest]

If when you press F9 you see the brown system origin lines then one of two things has happened.

 

You either did not create a new WCS as you thought or that WCS is not active.

 

When you click on the WCS button do you see a listing for the new WCS you created?

 

If there is then click on it to activate it if not then you were not successful in creating a new one.

 

Hardmill placed a powerpoint tutorial on the FTP that is very informative on creating and manipulating the WCS. I'd suggest you check it out.

 

Here's the link for it

 

WCS Tutorial

[KevinPro61]

Thanks John

I will check out the tutorial.