?Mark
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I might not be the biggest fan of Haas equipment, but I sure admire their effort in educating machinists and creating those videos. Something other MTB's could learn from for sure.
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We got one of those fancy mx 520 pc4 machines
?Mark replied to Leon82's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
I'm surprised. Models are supposedly tied to serial numbers....but I guess it is still possible for someone to screw that up. Dangerous for sure. Luckily for me, Camplete and Vericut has been working flawlessly here. Not even a scratch since we got them few years back... -
We got one of those fancy mx 520 pc4 machines
?Mark replied to Leon82's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
I program those and load programs remotely from 1000 miles away Very nice machines. Congrats! -
This is what I do: Place a precision ring in HMC (top of the tombstone, vise jaws, doesn't matter). Measure the exact diameter, indicate the exact location and write a program for a depth indicator to touch it off at -90 0 an +90 deg (both directions) and then sweep it from +90 to -90 and back. This will tell you if machine is even setup right. No special codes/options needed. If this part is bad, no options are going to fix this. Fanuc has to synchro all the axis prior to using any other options. EDIT: Program from the center of rotation.
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NOT surprised at all I'm glad you got it sorted out, even though Fanuc and MTB left you with a huge dissapointment.
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Comes down to support. My experience with MTB techs has been subpar most of the time when things went south (read: okuma 5axis head/table) Some of those guys are like programmers that never worked as machinists....they seem to know few things and can talk the talk, but can't do the walk...
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Ouch...that's bad
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use "direction" settings
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Very few MTB's really know what they're doing. People like James M and few others on this forum that support MTB's are a rare bunch. For Majority of them 3 axis stuff is it. Fanuc sent someone closest to you to save money for them. They still charged you as if it was an out of state technician.
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Looks like you have easy access to this feature, so I'd lean towards getting it done from both sides (2 toolpaths at 180 deg from each other) along x+ and x- as shown in your screen shot....simple waterline
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5 axis morph will get you the nicest finish and blend as shown in a pic. You can also do it "old school" with either flowline or one of the high speed surfacing toolpaths (waterline).
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Lasers Inc. They are as good as it gets
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NHX5000 will give you tons of Z travel, long tools and tall columns (39.4 inch max workpiece height), more so than others
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You have Matsuura right there in your neighborhood...should probably consider it too
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Stevens makes them too...but I can't wait for it to be built (6 weeks)
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We usually custom build those, but don't have much time this time. Is there a supplier for those? The face of the tombstone (1 sided angle plate) needs to be offset from c/r by a negative number. 1-2 inches+ TIA!
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Sorry to hear about your wife Colin
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Easy way to force the desired rotation is to add one or two simple drill toolpaths with the same tool at certain rotations to force it going that way.
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I want to pull the rest of my hair out when I see "experienced" programmers populating one by one all the fields in toolpath manager even for the simplest operations over and over again.... Setting up default operations and tool libraries should be the first thing ANY programmer should start with.
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Where to buy extra pallets for NHX5000?
?Mark replied to ?Mark's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
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Part# U61386A04 (INCH,TAP+EDGE LOCATOR) Anyone know of new/used supplier for those pallets? Lead time from DMG is tool long. TIA
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What you're seeing sounds like a post issue. I've seen similar behavior on fanuc controls where TCP and G68 where called out in the wrong sequence. Can't help you with the haas though, not familiar with it.
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FYI, it's NOT really a do it all set and forget kind of alignment. I'd treat it more as a nice reference start point, but not something that will get you aligned to a really tight specs ))
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I'm ready to replace my broken spacepilot and my current 2 button space mouse isn't cutting anymore. So, who is a good supplier with fair prices? It can't be a private entity...(corporate account). Also, what's your experience with wireless? Any lag? Battery life? Looks like the battery is not user replaceable ( Thanks!
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I'm NOT overly surprised by the finish on Haas being a little sub-par, but what you're showing is excessive. I'm not seeing it on our Haas machines. Have you looked into mechanical issues perhaps? Drawbar, pullstud, servos being out of whack?
