Digitizing a part with a Haas

[Bob W.]

I have a Haas mill with a Renishaw probe and I would like to know how to export points taken in real time. I can currently have the probe store values in the macro variables but when there is more than a few dozen points I run out of storage variables. Can I set up my mill to export coordinates directly to Mastercam or ProE as the points are taken?

[3R!< W3NG3R]

I can't remember exactly, but I think it is a DPRINT command. That will send values to a PC through the RS232 slot. On our Mazak, we have the DPRINT sending the values to a file that is on the network that we can open in the office anytime without having to fist open up the connection.

 

Your Haas manuals would have better info on it methinks.

 

HTH

[Bob W.]

DPRINT is the command but I'm not sure how Mastercam needs to be configured to listen for information from the machine. Saving to a file would be perfect.