5 axis fidia machine

[moldmaker10]

Is anyone of you guys out there using Mastercam to program a 5 axis Fidia machine. We serve the injection mold industry. What are your comments positive or negative. Thanks.

[crazy^millman]

Does it have a Fanuc Control? I looked at these machine many times over the years hoping someone i worked for would get one. All of my research supported being ale to easily program it with Mastercam just like anyother 5 axis machine on the Market with a Articulating head. I have program trunnion, 30 deg 5 axis Verticals, 5 axis Articulating Hortzional, 5 axis Mill/Turn, 5 axis Routers Articulating Head. I know of many otheres how have done the same and even more different types of 5 axis machines. My point being if these machine can be programmed using Mastercam then a Fida can be done as well.

 

HTH

[moldmaker10]

It has a Fidia control. Yes I believe Mastercam can too, but I was wanting to know if anyone already had experience with Fidia and Mastercam working together. Posting is an important part of a machine working well with a cam system. Just looking for to build on someones already experience.

[MLS]

We program a Fidia control, but as you said...the post is the key issue. Our standard is an .APT(with a custom post) or NCI file out of Mastercam and a second party post processor. For the most part, it seems pretty simple like the ideal is just to feed it point to point data, so I don't know that a direct post out of Mastercam would be all that difficult.

 

If the machine is a Nutator head (A & C axes) with a limited C rotary then the logic needed would be difficult to handle the rewind in full 5-axis motion. That is the primary difficulty with our setup. Requires programming it a certain way then detecting rotary overtravels and going back and changing it.

 

I don't think this scenario would be any different with any other CAM package though.

[gcode]

I used to program for a large HMC 5X with a tilting A on a rotating C. Both axis had rotational limits and the generic 5X post handled them pretty well once it was set up properly.

One trick I used a lot was to use point toolpaths

with different contruction planes to "windup"

the C axis before entering a cut, so it could

make the entire cut with having to retract,

unwind and reenter the cut.

 

[ 01-21-2007, 03:34 PM: Message edited by: gcode ]

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We program a Fidia control, but as you said...the post is the key issue. Our standard is an .APT(with a custom post) or NCI file out of Mastercam and a second party post processor. For the most part, it seems pretty simple like the ideal is just to feed it point to point data, so I don't know that a direct post out of Mastercam would be all that difficult.

 

If the machine is a Nutator head (A & C axes) with a limited C rotary then the logic needed would be difficult to handle the rewind in full 5-axis motion. That is the primary difficulty with our setup. Requires programming it a certain way then detecting rotary overtravels and going back and changing it.

 

I don't think this scenario would be any different with any other CAM package though.

Hey mls I'm having some programming drama's with our new Fidia . Have you got much know how on Fidia plane shifting "G21 RX RY RZ VX CY CZ " ? 

 

[john316]

We have a fidia with fidia controls.

It uses European style codes and methods that are different than Fanuc but codes are codes if you can look past what you've been doing from the beginning.

I customized the Gen5x post for compatibility.

[Frank]

Hello, 

We are having trouble just drilling and tapping, I think we have the surfacing worked out.  Can anyone please send me a Posted drill cycle for this machine.  It's a KR199 6 axis.  We are working with Axsys but having trouble figuring out how to drill and tap properly with the post???

 

Thanks,

 

[crazy^millman]

On 4/15/2024 at 7:24 AM, Frank said:

Hello, 

We are having trouble just drilling and tapping, I think we have the surfacing worked out.  Can anyone please send me a Posted drill cycle for this machine.  It's a KR199 6 axis.  We are working with Axsys but having trouble figuring out how to drill and tap properly with the post???

 

Thanks,

 

When you reached out to FIDIA what was their response?