Mori MT253 probing

[dan m]

I have just started playing with the reinshaw probe again and have what is probably a stupid question. If I have the turret rotated B-90. I have no problem checking O.D.'s and I.D.'s. For the job I want to use it on now I am using a tailstock so I wanted to have my B axis at B0 and I can't seem to get it to work. This is what the command line looks like "G65 P9018 D1.0045 Q180. I.05 Z1.0045 F1.7 H3." Any ideas would be appreciated.

[robk]

Dan is that aRenishaw Macro? I don't recognize that one.

Are you sure that P9018 is correct?

 

All of my B90.0° macros have a value of 200 less then B0.0°

[robk]

Is that a Bore/boss measurement?

This is using the macros that I have on our vertical integrex (the reason for P9614). Note that Z changes to X.

 

G65 P9614 D1.0045 Q180. I.05 X1.0045 F1.7 H3.

 

The Q180. is funky also.

[dan m]

Rob i'm not sure if it's a renishaw macro or a mori macro. according to the notes i have from mori P9018 is for Circle measurement. I am not sure what you mean by " All of my B90.0 macros have a value of 200 less than B0.0" . The measurement is just a O.D. which is not that big of a deal I'm just tring to get a better understanding of what I can do. The Q vale specifies the range of measurement when measureing a arc (not full circle) or for measuring a circle where where the measureable range is limited. I am going to try your change and see if that helps.

Thanks for the reply

[dan m]

Just a thought do you think maybe a "C Axis" probing routine would work?

[dan m]

I tried calling the Dia. a width also but no luck. any Ideas?

[crazy^millman]

Dan if your's works like the Integrex there should be some O98XX macros for B90 and O96XX macros for the B0 position. Now if you try using a B90 Macro in the B0 position it will not work. Try changing it to O96 and see if that helps. I have been working on a post that switches automatically depending on the B position of the head before calling the drill cycle.

 

HTH

[dan m]

Ron I havn't even tryed setting up my drill cycles to run the probe yet. I have just been editing the programs by hand. the macros I have in the machine are as follows.

 

9018 Auto Measuring Cycle

9049 Probe Calibration (A06)

9051 3 Point center (A06)

9052 Sensor Check (A06)

9053 Average & Min.Max & stdevp (A06)

9058 Work Offset Set

9060 Circle (A06)

9061 Point (A06)

9063 Width (A06)

 

These are all I have. When the machine was purchased all the macros got whiped out. These are the only ones I have been able to come up with at this point.

[robk]

Dan, by the looks of it you don't have any macros for 90.0°, but that is if your software works like integrex (like Ron suggested). I would also check to make sure that all the macros are installed. Look within your P9018 and see what is called within it. IMO you should have a lot more then just 9 macros. What kind of documentation do you have for the probe software. It is very easy to get manuals from Renishaw.

[dan m]

Rob, thats kind of what I was starting to think. The Macros that we do have were given to me by a friend. we bought the machine used and there were only a couple macros in it. I am assuming they got rid of what they didn't use. I do have some renishaw stuff but it's all for haas machining centers so I am assuming that is all different.

[Kyle Waters]

Dan,

The macros are Mori's for sure. If I recall correctly, you are supposed to be able to use this at B-90,0, or B90. Which control do you have? We have an MT2000 with the Renishaw, I think I may have something around here in my pile of "stuff". Let me know.

[Kyle Waters]

Dan,

I forgot to ask, are you getting an error, or the macro throws you out? All of the B axis position judgement is in the 9060 macro, which is where 9018 should be branching to based on your line above. Give me a shout if you don't have this figured out already.

[dan m]

Kyle you got mail