Multiaxis linking

[JMahon]

Anyone using this yet? I tried it and it gave a bunch of jerky rapid moves... Is this not fully tweaked yet or would this be a post mod?

[JMahon]

Haha never mind! I thought I had output feed move selected but I guess I missed the click!

 

Anyways... Anyone used it much? I'm bout to give it a shot later today

[Craig-B]

I have used it on some  2D tombstone programming and it works good, I think its a good tool to have in the tool box works well for me.

[JMahon]

Anyone used it on drilling?

It seems to be getting confused on my depths...?

[JMahon]

I just realized it changed my peck value from .010" to 300.00"

 

It drills a few holes at q.01 then all the sudden it's q300.

 

It only seems to be doing this on drilling cycles so far. Maybe something to do with G5P2 confusing the post?

[Rstewart]

I just realized it changed my peck value from .010" to 300.00"

 

It drills a few holes at q.01 then all the sudden it's q300.

 

It only seems to be doing this on drilling cycles so far. Maybe something to do with G5P2 confusing the post?

 

 

You don't need to be using look-ahead while drilling.

[Aaron Eberhard]

JMahon - When I run into stuff like this, I always swap out to a generic post to see what output I get, at least then I know which department to send my queries to     If you are finding something, feel free to send an email into [email protected] and put "attention Aaron" somewhere in it.  Thanks for taking it for a test drive and let me know how you like it.

 

Craig- Glad to hear it's working well for you!

 

Thanks gents!

[Craig-B]

Hey J Mahon,

Can you post some sample code of your problem. 

I'm going to try some drilling next on multiple planes and see what I get,  

[JMahon]

It was a bug, logged as Reference # R-04231.

 

[JMahon]

Other than that, im really digging the multiaxis link...

 

Trying it out some more on a part tomorrow!

[Sticky]

MC had a drilling bug? What a shock.

[Rstewart]

MC had a drilling bug? What a shock.

 

 

 very constructive post to the topic...

[Sticky]

 very constructive post to the topic...

 

Same with yours

[Aaron Eberhard]

Other than that, im really digging the multiaxis link...

 

Trying it out some more on a part tomorrow!

 

Glad to hear it  

 

Thanks again for sending in the bug, looks like we've got it nailed down.  It's a bit late to make it into X9 release, but we'll get it out as soon as we can.

[Craig-B]

Hey Aaron,

Are there plans to, allow you to use multiaxis link to be used with a tool-path that is transformed, instead of creating the same tool-path on different tool planes.

Example: If you do a facing operation that is transformed a tombstone fixture with 4 duplicated loading's. 

[Aaron Eberhard]

Hey Aaron,

Are there plans to, allow you to use multiaxis link to be used with a tool-path that is transformed, instead of creating the same tool-path on different tool planes.

Example: If you do a facing operation that is transformed a tombstone fixture with 4 duplicated loading's. 

Craig,

 

Yes, it would be nice.  There's a few holdups to it, the main one is that Multiaxis Link doesn't dig through the individual toolpaths, it only inserts a link at the start & end of an op.  A Transform op is one big toolpath, so it's not quite as easy as you would think to "hijack" some of the linking moves internally.  Since these required some changes to the Transformed ops, we held off on this release while we made sure the rest of it was solid.

Cheers,

[Craig-B]

Thanks Aaron, you guys are off to a good start. I really like this feature the best thus far and the WCS aware