Moving a part on a horizonal

[connormac]

I'm learning to program from centerline of tombstone. It works great like all of you have said. BUT, what if you have everything all set. you know from centerline to bottom of part is 4.25 + part height plus .100 so you don't run over jaws. this comes out to 5.931". Then the parts were sawed up .05" shorter than called out. Now the part doesn't clean up. I move the part in .05" but that doesn't change the numbers in operation manager. Is there a easy to change all numbers .05". Or am I still not programming it quite right?

[Guest]

Program your depths in incremental

 

This way they are in relation to the part, so the location of the part does not matter. If you program absoute depths, then the values are inrelation to the zero

[connormac]

Even the top of the part is in incremental?

 

Oh by the way ,Thanks John.

[Rick Henrickson The Boeing Co.]

even if you program from center rotation you should have offsets on each face, so drop your B0 face in .05 to clean up and andjust x+.05 on the right face offset and -.05 on the left face coordiante. if you use G10 lines in the program you can adjust them this time but do not ovewrite the original because next time it will take to much off

[Rick Henrickson The Boeing Co.]

Oh also you could program it to minimum thickness and a a rough pass that might air cut once on short blanks

[gms1]

Im always afraid of screwing something up doing it John's way in incremental mode. I usually do it by Rick's method of using the work offsets.

[Tony35]

i like the work offsets way

good luck