The best way to choose cplanes/tplanes

[Elad]

Hi,

When i work with 4 axis,and i need to find a new cplane to rotate the part,i go to front view,and the i use analyze-angle,and after i know the angel i go back to top and use cplane-rotate.

I used to find cplanes using entities,but i found out that this is not very safe way,and when choose entities to find a new cplane,i get coordinates lines,and it's not always easy to understand what i see.

After i find my cplane (by cplane rotate) i save as name.

Is there any faster way to do it??

And my second question is:what will happend if i'll turn off the t/c plane??

most of the time my home position is in the middle of the 4th axis.i don't need G55,G56,G57 etc..... in my gcode,and i always change it manualy (when the part is complicated,it takes time and it is annoying).if i'll turn off the t/c plane,will it stay on G54??if not,what should i do??is it only a post problem??

I know that in the mpmaster there is a misc value "lock on first wcs",but i don't work with mpmaster yet.i work with mpfan post.

Thanks a lot,and i'm sorry my english is not very good.

Have a great christmas all of you.

[ 12-26-2001: Message edited by: elad ]

[gstephens]

Check my reply to the rotating nci thread for the work offsets. The way you are doing it with the named views is probably best, although you may want to set the work offset (to the same number) for each of the views.