Wire Library

[jbert]

I am new to wire and was wandering if guys could set me in the right direction.

How Should I set up my power library.

I run a Sodick A280L. Do I need to have a PL for each material thickness?

[edmBosto]

jbert,

 

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Do I need to have a PL for each material thickness?

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I'm going to guess the thickness can be entered into the machine manually as our Fanucs are. On our Mitsubishi wire I enter the thickness in the toolpath parameter and I can see it in the posted program at the beginning.

 

So I would really doubt it for the Sodick.

 

HTH

[jbert]

I generally burn w/ 3 passes.

The ruf cut cond is the only one that changes.

Pass 1 = C612 for 1" or C614 for 2"

Pass # 2-3 are the same cond no matter the material thickness. All data must be in the program.

[edmBosto]

In that case I probably would set up another library. I can see the Sodick is different from I'm used to.

 

Uncheck associate to library

 

Place the settings you need for ea. pass for 1 inch.

 

Save the power library and enter a name so you can identify it easily. To do this (I'm at home now) click on get power lib or is it just power library and then you can save it as a new name.

But you can only do this if it's unchecked for associate to library!

 

I doubt if you need to enter the feed rate as the machine may do that automatically.

In the middle box for pass one enter C612

See if that shows in the posted program.

 

Sorry as I'm just throwing info up here that isn't real accurate for the Sodick since I don't have one but it may get you stated some.

 

HTH