WCS and 4th axis programming

[Elad]

I'll try to explain my problem :

 

When i program 4axis,almost always i set the home position at the center of the 4th axis,and then i cut the top,and when i want to rotate it,i use cplane-rotate,and i set the new wcs.

The problem is that after i finish all the ops,i need to go one by one to the t/c plane and unmark the "working coordinate system" box.

If i will not unmark it,the gcode will come out without rotation.

I tried to select all and edit common parameters,and then unmark the checkbox in the t/c plane but it doesn't work.i have to go to every operation one by one and unmark it.

Annoying.

 

Any suggestions??

 

Thanks

[Reece L Gibson]

Why are we setting a new WCS with each new view?

[Elad]

What do you mean??

Is there another way??

[cadcam]

Elad you can rotate about the part using the Alt-O and control a new plane without using the WCS.

 

Works nice forth axis some time the WCS can mess that up.

[Dan Bedore]

Jay i hit alt-0 it was for setting a new z and alt-o opened my operations manager. am i missing something?

[iowajim62]

Hi elad,

What I do is go to Gview,Named,now right click on any view and click Create,copy selected and give that a new name. Now I can set my "0's" and offset number as well. The other way is to go to Gview,Entity and pick geo to set new work offset. I always leave my WCS set to top. Just my way of doing things. And I don't need to regen ops.

HTH

[cadcam]

Dan you need to pick on the Cplane button first then look at the top of the page.

you will see the option for Alt-O.