Lathe tooling

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Good Saturday to all,

 

The question comes to be that I have a machine with upper and lower turrets (or the old school variety). I don't know if I am doing this the wrong way, or just trying to cheat the system, but I want to make my tools on the bottom turret & CW direction. As such with the tool setup screen, I have to reverse them to make the insert in the correct orientation.

 

After I do all this, I am no longer able to use stock for outer boundy. It's greyed out and assumes one cut (usually a stock crash error).

 

Now, with this I am giving it the same geomety as a normal tool, on the upper area of the origion. Maybe I am not suppose to do it that way...? I don't know.

 

Any help would be great!!!

[Bob Hedrick]

If you are programming a tool in the lower turret, your geometry must be below the lathe Z axis. Chaining geometry on the opposite side of the Z axis will definitely result in what you are seeing. The lathe tool collision avoidance module works on the assumption that the tool is cutting on the same side of the Z axis as the turret. Mirror your geometry and you should be fine.

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

I'll give it a bash. Thanks!

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Re:question; The stock extend works great if used below the Z plane on bottom/cw tools. But, still when I output I get positive X values. Should it not output in X- values?

[crazy^millman]

Look for a switch in the post to see if can changes the sign for the lower turret posting.

 

HTH

[Guest]

It could also be in the machine def I believe if you are running a new MPMaster

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Got it in the MD. Had some problems still with it not posting in the X- until I actually went into each toolpath that was of the bottom turret and just hit the Green check, it dirty'd the op, and reissued as X-....strange but it works.

[Guest]

You would need to regen that Randy, the output would be changed so a regen to apply the change into the NCI file would be needed.

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

Yeah, it seems that it would, eh? =]

 

Thanks!

[Ahell]

I am having almost the same problem. I want my lower turret to be X+ and i am currently getting X-. I started out with the basic 4X millturn post. Is this in the machine def?

 

Thanks