4th axis indexer question, VMC

[DaveR]

So I have this indexer part, on a VMC typical X axis position.

 

Haas mill, stock Haas 4x post.

 

Program from centerline.

 

I made named views and just rotated the tool plane (at least I think I did) by picking plane, rotate around x, 90 degrees, 180, 270, all the way around the part. I renamed them as I went.

 

To do the tool paths I picked WCS view manager, put the C and T icons in the correct named view slot and made the tool paths.

 

The back plot looks good, sim looks good too. The posted code does not want to output a 270 or 180 A axis moves. I get A90, A-90, and A0 moves. I kept the origin and work offset set to -1 the whole time not sure if this is correct.

 

So question can it be done this way and there is some radio buttin I missed or am I going about this the wrong way? Post issue?

[crazy^millman]

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To do the tool paths I picked WCS view manager, put the C and T icons in the correct named view slot and made the tool paths.

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This is where you made your mistake. You only need to pick the C-plane and do the toolpath with that C-plane active Mastercam does everything else for you. If you did the WCS you now made all of the them top at each index and will only get A0 for every output.

 

HTH

[DaveR]

Thanks Ron.