Okuma MA500 Horizontal how to use CAL OO88

[Santa Fe]

We just got an Okuma MA-500 Horizontal. We previously had 3 Cincinnati Horizontal 4 axis. Because this is mainly a job shop, the decision was made long time ago not to program from center of rotation, instead we do like in a VMC from a known corner of stock, then for the rotations we let the control to track follow the position of that corner. For this to work we need to input the shift amounts (distance from part origin in XYZ to the center of rotation) on the offset page and set the control to track the rotations. 

We were told that to do this on the new Okuma MA500 we need to use the following routine: CALL OO88 XX=00 YY=20 ZZ=0 BB=0 SBB=0 HH=1 PP=10.

We have been trying to make it work like on the Cincinnati Horizontals but we are either doing something wrong or the machine is not calibrated because the tool is not following that corner.

Does anyone knows and could explain to me how to make an Okuma Horizontal 4 axis to follow the XYZB corner origin at any angle. The goal is to have only one work offset and let the control figure out the compensation amounts.

I think for Haas machines that will be G254 Dynamic Work Offset (DWO).

 

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