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.

1 hour ago, C^Millman said:

Make sure you have the correct machine model for your Verification. I just rubbed the spindle on the table of one of these. I was given a different model to do verification with and did everything I could to check, but with a 1000 psi and everything else hard to see things. Luckily no harm to the machine, but I was not happy.

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...

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.

NOT surprised at all

I'm glad you got it sorted out, even though Fanuc and MTB left you with a huge dissapointment.

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...

Ouch...that's bad 

use "direction" settings

11 hours ago, g huns said:

Right now, it doesn't do it either way.

I can't blame the Fanuc guy for not knowing much about things beyond 3 axis. But maybe Fanuc coulda sent us someone who does, instead of just sending the guy who lives closest to our shop.

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.

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

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).

Lasers Inc. They are as good as it gets  

NHX5000 will give you tons of Z travel, long tools and tall columns (39.4 inch max workpiece height), more so than others

You have Matsuura right there in your neighborhood...should probably consider it too

Stevens makes them too...but I can't wait for it to be built (6 weeks)

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!

Sorry to hear about your wife Colin

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.

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.

8 hours ago, JParis said:

http://cncpallets.com/mori-seiki-nhx-5000-dcg/

Perfect!

Thanks!

Part# U61386A04 (INCH,TAP+EDGE LOCATOR)

Anyone know of new/used supplier for those pallets? Lead time from DMG is tool long.

TIA

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.

19 hours ago, Zbuilder said:

Hey Cincy K, did you ever figure it out? We also have the MX520 but got the EZ-5 Retrofit kit from Matsuura. What we do is set the gauge ball at the 1:30 position on the table (back right corner) as far away from center (for best precision) without over traveling. We have the Marposs probe and not the Renishaw so Matsuura had to make/modify macros for us so the Marposs probe talked to the EZ-5 part of the control correctly. The program checks the ball 3 times (120° apart) on the C axis while A0.0, Then it tilts at A-45 (I think) and does it again at 3 positions around C axis.

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 ))

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!

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?