5 axis help

[Tom Matuszak from McCann Technical]

Our school just received a Haas VF2 with the 5 axis trunnion table. A student who will be attending WPI in the fall designed a shift handle and although it really doesn't need to be cut on a 5th axis, I told him we should give it a try. We were able to cut some of it but are really struggling. As in the past I came to the forum for help. It is up on the ftp site in the X3 directory saved as shifthandle.z2go

ftp://mastercam:[email protected]

 

If there is someone here that could get us going in the right direction with a 4 or 5 axis toolpath it would be greatly appreciated. Just seeing how someone else went about creating paths would be a big step in the right direction for us.

Thanks

Tom M

Berkshires, MA

[vince cannarozzo]

i will take a look at it

[vince cannarozzo]

tom, after looking at the file i have this question. is that the way it is set up in the machine? you need to have the file set up in mastercam X,Y,Z locations the same as they are in the machine.

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

I put a file on the FTP with a demo Toolpath, not something that would run nice on that machine. It should give you some ideas on set-up how to position the part and other things. Any questions please post them up. The file is call CRAZY_SHIFTHANDLE.ZIP

 

I use round stock to define the Material. I move it to a good 5 axis milling position. I am assuming you guys have never done any 5 axis. Important to note where I put the part relative to the trunnion. When doing 5 axis ONLY USE ONE WCS TOP IS YOU CAN. Use your C-planes to rotate the part if you are doing 3+2 milling. For the 5 axis the post and the program will do all of the work.

 

Oh and all the solids I put in the file are free.

 

 

HTH

[Jack Neelands™]

*Clapping*

 

 

*Wistling*

 

 

Bravo!!!!!!!

 

[Tom Matuszak from McCann Technical]

Thank you guys! It really should give us a good idea about how to go about some of the work. The machine was delivered about 3 weeks ago and we are very new to this stuff. Quite confusing as far as the planes go. I knew something was weird. We put it in that position because that is the only one we could get some good code to come out. When running the post we would always get an error that we were going to far in the A axis.

 

Ron, thanks so much for the solids:)

It will help the kids (and me) to get a better simulation of what is going on on the machine.

 

We are looking it over now (Our class runs on a bi-weekly basis, this is why it took so long to respond) and I am sure there will be some questions.

 

Thanks again,

This board never ceases to amaze me!

Tom