WCS

[Columbo™]

Is it possible to have more than one WCS in a machine group.

 

I want to have a program stop and move the part to another position on the fixture.

 

Can this be done or should another machine group be made...

 

Thanks

[Clarence L Cook]

Yes, I do it all the time. I do one op in one vise the move the part to another op. I would make sure that you specify the work offset and not rely on mastercam, ie. G54 = 0, G55 = 1, etc.

[Dave.L]

Is it possible to have more than one WCS in a machine group.

 

I want to have a program stop and move the part to another position on the fixture.

 

Can this be done or should another machine group be made...

 

Thanks

 

 

Columbo, your spending wayyyyyy to much time in off-topic, 7K posts and you don't know this?

 

Email me if you like and I will send you a file as an example.

[Hardmill]

Columbo, your spending wayyyyyy to much time in off-topic,

 

 

 

 

ROFL, you got told hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PEACE

[Columbo™]

Columbo, your spending wayyyyyy to much time in off-topic, 7K posts and you don't know this?

 

Email me if you like and I will send you a file as an example.

 

I have done it in the past also, (can't find the file) just for some reason I am having trouble with this one file.

 

 

Thanks Dave

 

 

 

 

ROFL, you got told hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

PEACE

 

 

 

And you Fluteface, whats your excuse......so shadup...

[Thee Rickster ™]

Dave, can you send me an example also. I rarely do this but have some stuff coming up

that can use this.

[Dave.L]

Rick I have your emai, so yes. Columbo I got yr PM but not an email so send me an email if you want an example. Give me a couple hours since I am not at work yet

[Columbo™]

Thanks Dave.....you have mail...

 

I have gotten close to figuring this out, but send me the file anyway......

 

I am posting this to a DMU-50.....

 

It uses G54, G55, G56, G57, G505, G506 and so on......

 

It seems to put the work offsets as G54, G56, G57, G505, G506......G525, G55

 

WHY??

 

Can G55 be arraigned to be after G54???

 

There are a LOTs of offsets and still climbing.....The part shift is a copy of my top view. Maybe this is wrong......

 

 

The odd thing is I do NOT use the top view on this part on the first fixture location at all. When I move the part, (flip over 180 degrees I only use the top view, (about 50 operations down. The post outputs the G55 at the end of the program. STRANGE..

[Dave.L]

Rick / Columbo, I sent you guys an example. Columbo, call me if you need, reading your last post I think I can explain this to you but I don't want to write a book, just call.

[Columbo™]

OK Boyz........got it....

 

Every time I forced the top view with a numbered view like 2 it output G55 instead of the needed G518

 

All the other operations use a -1. (not sure why it does this)

 

 

Instead of putting 18 into the work offset I needed to put a 17 to get G518 (18 -1)

 

I think that's it......but it works, that's all that counts....

 

Dave thanks for the e-mail.

 

 

 

And same to you Chippy

[Dave.L]

OK Boyz........got it....

 

Every time I forced the top view with a numbered view like 2 it output G55 instead of the needed G518

 

All the other operations use a -1. (not sure why it does this)

 

 

Instead of putting 18 into the work offset I needed to put a 17 to get G518 (18 -1)

 

I think that's it......but it works, that's all that counts....

 

Dave thanks for the e-mail.

 

 

 

And same to you Chippy

 

 

-1 is the default. As I said henry, you can modify your post to make the workoffset numbers equal whatever fixture offsets you want. And you're welcome anytime.