Programming Renishaw In Mastercam?

[X-L Engineering Corp]

This is just a general question to see how everyone handles programming his or her touch probes.

I talked to Verisurf at the show and they told me they might not release what they have for Programming Touch Probes for Machine Centers for "X" they only have it for Version 9.

So with out that how do you approach getting the Renishaw routines coming out of Mastercam For Touch Probes and Tool Detection?

 

In advance thanks for any comments.

 

Ted

[Lars Christensen]

custom drill cycles are great for this, Set up a post processor to post out the Renishaw macros,just a general answer

[Ron Branch @ 5th Axis]

There has been some discussion about this. When things get hammered out I will let you know.

 

For now it is handled inside of the post, but it is lacking needed things for the operations at best.

[X-L Engineering Corp]

I haven't worked with custom drill cycles before and I'm not that versed in post writing. Were could I get some examples to work from and is it explained well enough in the help menu?

just a general reply

[YoDoug®]

We use Renishaw Productivity plus for our mills. For our few lathes with turret probes we made a post that uses custom drill cycles.

 

Ron Branch @ Verisurf, New job?

[Kyle Waters]

Are you wearing yet another hat Ron? Impressive

[Zoober]

Ron teh man of many hats!

 

[Ron Branch @ 5th Axis]

Yes will be part time. I still have my other job, just be working at Verisurf for 2 days a week.

 

Many hats are fun in life makes it interesting.

[Lars Christensen]

Ted,

I sat it up back in Mastercam 8 and it actually ended up working pretty good for my needs, however I have schedule myself to be looking into this within the next week, because I want to re-write a post for MastercamX3...........UNLESS, Ron need beta testers, huh? huh?, "vink, vink" you know what I mean, my old pal Ron

[X-L Engineering Corp]

Lars

That sounds great but it would be great to see Verisurf come out with their version because we work off a network hasp and then others could use as well as me that’s what I was hoping for.

 

Doug

I also talked to Renishaw at the show about their Software and they don't have a floating license.

 

Ron

You seem to be getting more hits on this post than me

[YoDoug®]

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I also talked to Renishaw at the show about their Software and they don't have a floating license.

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Yep, thats my biggest complaint with it. We have 2 licenses tied to 2 computers and five programmers. The 2 programmers with the licenses have to do all of the probe programming. I have considered doing the post work for our mill posts to do probe programming, but we are transitioning to NX Cam over the next 2 years and NX6 has probe programming capabilities so I can't justify the time to do the MCX posts.

[Chris Kozell]

Ted,

 

Shooot me an email outlining what you are looking for for the probe. In the past we have done it with custom drill cycles.

[Steve Hattori]

Doug can you elaborate on switching to NX6? They have been trying to get me to move, but I just don't know enough about it. I also have Verisurf and wish I could get probe routines...

Thanks

[Ron Branch @ 5th Axis]

Steve send me an email with things you would like to see if you do not mind. That goes for any other members that have Verisurf and have things they would like to see with regards to machine probing.

 

Thanks.

[Greg_J]

Can you give an example of what your talking about?

 

Are machining a part run and after making so many parts you probe and adjust the wear values?

[YoDoug®]

Steve, I have very little info on the probing in NX6. What I saw was a demo on the computer of a Siemens App engineer. The demo was more of how NX6 will "on screen" program the probes just like creating toolpaths. I do not know how the post works or how it will use Renishaw macros.

 

Ron, one of the things I really like about the Renishaw Productivity plus is that any inspection cycles you create in the cam interface are assigned variables and are remembered and can be used or referenced in other cycles as well as logic decisions from within the CAM interface. A simple example is when you create a simple Z point measurement of 2 different Z points the actual measured points (assigned variables) can be called into a math function and the difference can be compared to a tolerance used to adjust an offset. all of this can be accomplished with almost no macro programming on the users part. I would love to see this kind of functionality in Verisurf as well.

[Ron Branch @ 5th Axis]

Doug thanks for the information. Guys keep the ideas coming I am all ears.

[X-L Engineering Corp]

Chris,

it would be for the part that we have been sending back and forth for the 5 Axis post. And with that routine I'm going to have to use (Dynamic Fixture Offset) so getting all this into a post is not going to be easy. I was hoping Verisuf was closer to releasing somthing but if you can get the custom drill cycle working for me for now that would be great.

 

P.S. Let me know how the 5 Axis post is coming?

[Ron Branch @ 5th Axis]

Ted can you email me with some specifics about your machine, Renishaw Head you are using, and idea of things you guys are looking to do with your machine??? I appreciate anything you can send my way.

[X-L Engineering Corp]

Ron,

No problem nothing complicated I have a

Mori Seiki NV5000

Renishaw MP700

Tsudakoma TN160 Tilt-Rotary

Right now just looking to establish location of parts as their loaded.

Would like to eventually measure and make adjustments using the Probe but not they’re yet?

[Murray Mold]

quote:I sat it up back in Mastercam 8

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Lars,

Will V9 do probing as well?

[3R!< W3NG3R]

Murray, I set mine up in V9 and now am using the same post in X3.