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  1. Model should always be bible. Prints should be used a references for tolerances and hole call outs. I just ran into this today Bored hole with a .005" tolerance all drawn the same .100 bigger on all 4 parts that stack together to make the asembly. A simple call to the customer and we were told follow the print. Hope the guy making the pins catches it as well otherwise they are going to have a bit of trouble assembling this thing and it will be assembled and tested in front of their customer that they are making this machine for. Just hope my boss sent a email to reconfirm what was said on the phone.
  2. I would be interested in that wake up program especially if I could add my warm up program to the end of it.
  3. I just spoke to tech support and they have to be done seperately, but definitely would be nice. Thanks for the help though.
  4. Good morning, Is there a way I can punch out the tool offsets with my program where I can load them all back in next time I do the job?
  5. Just got off with Haas applications support and if you change parameter 33 (work co-ordinate) from Fanuc to Haas it will stop the values in G52 from erasing everytime a M30 is read. This is going to save a tonne of time and a lot of mistakes.
  6. Ya but all my machines are different sizes which would cause to many issues with loading a part programmed for my VF2 onto my VF4. Was wondering if there is a way to do this at the control (possibly a parameter to keep it from resetting) or if it was possible to set it with G92. I am looking online for more info about G92 but it is telling me from what I have read that it can play havoc on machine home zeros.
  7. Currently right now all our work offsets on our VMC are taken from distance above the vise ways to where machine Z0. is set for the part. To do this though we are taking the known distance from spindle to vise ways (Z- distance) and adding our fixture and part thickness to where we program our Z zero. ( 3 calculations and end up with a Z- value for our offset Z value) What I would like is to use world shift (G53 offset EXT 00 on fanuc) to put the known height machine home to the vise way we use as our reference. So now all of our Z co ordinate offsets would be a positive value and will pick up the shift. When I use G52 right now it does what I want but everytime the machine reads a M30 it resets the preset values in that offset.
  8. I just ended up creating new planes and used the edit common parameters it was faster than trying to play with the transform (with which I am novice with at best). Thank you for all the help and ideas though guys. I spoke with my vendor and he tells me that in X8 you can rotate a plane without having to create a new one so guess I should finally upgrade before the next one of these legacy programs comes up.
  9. I keep getting errors that boundary doesn't lie in the construction plane no matter which view I use. I probably also should have mentioned is the reason I have to rotate the part is because my rotary table configuration between the two machines are different. Taking the job off a chuck style that 360 degrees on A and 90 on B to a trunnion style.
  10. I have a part that has multiple planes that has already been programmed. What I would like to do is rotate the WCS 90 degrees around z and lock all my planes to the wcs and have them rotate with the wcs. Is this possible? and if so what is the easiest way to lock everything together so I don't need to recreate all my planes and update all the tool planes on all my operations?
  11. WIth file management do you guys do sort them by machine or specialized file names. One of the concerns my bosses have is that if we post for a haas the first time but next time the job is run that we than post it to our mori and back and forth. I know it is easily enough to keep apart by setting up your directories as to where things post and what folder. I am wondering what people have found the easiest. Right now there is no rhyme or reason to how programs got numbered and with as many legacy programs as I have here (keep in mind the file name is different for each part but not for each machine. In the past I have always used seperate folders based on machine and than all programs were sequential with part number following the O# and we never had a problem per say other than human error.
  12. Just wondering what software and hardware configurations people are running for sending programs back and forth from the machines to the computer. They currently use a switch here with Cimco Edit but a lot of time is spent walking back and forth to send/ recieve. I looked at the CIMCO DNC Max teaming it with a ethernet hub and like the ability to call the program directly from the machine to recieve and no prep is needed at the computer to punch but it is fairly pricy when you buy all the required extra ports for it. (we have 16 machines here). The other plus to using Cimco is people are use to the UI. I should add that 99% of the programs here are small enough that machine memory isn't a problem and programs will be uploaded to the control and then ran through memory as opposed to drip feeding.
  13. Just upgraded my box to win7 pro x64 and now whenever I repost a file that I already have open in the editor I don;t get the prompt "file has been modified outside the editor do you want to reload it now" anymore and keeps the original file and doesn't reload the new one. What do I need to do so that I can get it working like it use to?
  14. We had a tech out and they say it is square and level. I haven't seen the issue yet since this is the first run I have done on this and I didn't use tool staging. I am going by what the owner has told me. It is a 60 tool carousel mounted just to the casting and no support underneath. It is just held on by a few bolts. I know it is mounted at the bottom but haven't spent enough energy checking if it there is also a bracket at the top because the table moves in Z as opposed to the spindle colume you would think their would be top brackets.

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