Haas 5C indexer

[Dead Money]

I have a question on what is the best way to handle the following situation.

 

Part is processed and programmed for a rotary index 2 pallet Kitamura with the Hass 5C indexer pointing in the Y+ direction.

 

Part runs fine for the first run but there are scheduling conflicts for the next run and I am asked to repost to a different machine with the indexer pointing in the X- direction.

 

What is the fastest and easiest way to do this?

[PGW Steve]

Dynamic WCS?

[jeff]

Does your control allow for a program rotate G-code?

If so, just rotate it 90 degrees.

[Rob @ Target Machine]

Ex.

T1M6

G0 G90 G54 X0. Y0.

G68 X0. Y0. R90.<----Set Coordinate Rotation

G43 Z.05 H1 S6000 M3

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.

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G69<--Cancel Coordinate Rotation

G91 G28 Z0.

G28 Y0.

 

 

X becomes Y and Y becomes X rotated about G54 X0. Y0.

 

HTH

[Dead Money]

We have used cordinate rotation many times but I get a lot of complaints that it is confusing when a shift needs to be done. Actually the Matsuura machine I need to put it in can just put the r90 in the work offset without the G68s/69s.

 

What I really want to know is how is it best handled thru Mastercam so the G code Xs and Ys match reality.

 

What I did was save the original MC file as part#-matsuura.MCX because I was affraid of screwing up the good Kitamura file.

 

First I rotated geometry 90 degs so its like the new setup. Next I created 6 new WCSs for my rotations. I opened up each of the 60 operations one at a time and changed the planes to the new wcs. All of the facing operations needed to be rotated 90 also.

 

This seemed to have worked but there must be an easier way. Did I do too much? Could I have cut out some of these steps?

[gcode]

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Next I created 6 new WCSs for my rotations. I opened up each of the 60 operations one at a time and changed the planes to the new wcs.

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Right Click in the OPS Manager

Choose Select

then View

Pick one of your old tool planes in the dropdown.

This will select all the ops that use that tool plane..

Then right click the selected ops

choose "edit common parameter"

and use the Planes Tab to change all the selected OPS to the new toolplane.

This works flawlessly in X thru X4..

In V9.. not so much..

[Dead Money]

Thanks gcode. I never used select before. That would have been alot easier.