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Kyle Brunner

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  1. 51 minutes ago, crazy^millman said:

    Yes you should only need to call the Renishaw cycles embedded in the machine. No need to have it give you all the extra garbage. These lines make no sense and should error out the machine. I have never seen a macro statement line output that many IJK values and even work. If it is reading it then it must be reading the last ones and using them. That looks like a major problem in my opinion.

    G65P2106A-0.6181B-0.5C-0.4181I0.3819J0.5K-0.5I0.5J-0.5K0.5I0.6181J-0.4181K-0.3819I103.J100.K101.I102.J0.K1.I1.J0.4K0.

    Looks like you need to reach out to the dealer you got the Post from and have them look into why these are not correct,

    NC Code does me no good. I need a Z2G that gives me the Post and HASP Number, I can then reach out to CNC software and make sure your a legal user of the software. Without such information sorry to be the bad guy and suspect you, but with that or your company information I have no way to do so.

    It is correct.  And they will tell you all the extra lines are needed for Pro+ to do what it needs to do in regards to logic and re-machining.  I've recently switched to the Cimco probing add-in and it was much better.

     

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  2. it would probably be keep relay setting if it had the ability. Some builders let you set large tools so it uses a fixed pot for a large diameter tool to allow clearance of adjacent tools in the magazine and that is usually done in the tool table that tracks tool # & pot # where you could set them all to fixed pot however you do realize the machine will need to do 2 tool changes for each tool??

     

    Len Dye

    this... just get used to the random magazine.

  3. Mastercam X4 lathe has been giving me an error for the past few days that I cannot figure out. It keeps telling me that my tool is colliding with my stock—after the stock has been set up—but there is no clear indication of where the tool collides with the stock. Also, it only happens with one specific tool while doing a specific face. I've tried messing around with Tool Clearance option in Stock Setup as well as DOC, but nothing.

     

    I have attached three pictures that include the tool Mastercam is failing with, the parameters I am using and the error I get on the geometry I am running. There are other tools I can use to program with, but we have alwas used this tool and we're trying to verify all of our parts, except this cannot be done if every time we try to regenerate we get this error.

     

    Thank you for your time.

    Based on what the 2nd picture shows, if that is your first cut, it is deeper than the insert can handle and you will be rubbing the holder on the material.  

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  4. So how do you guys utilize that information? I understand using the probe to set the WCS. How do you use it in your operations?

     

    Lot's of different ways. In the screen shot of the probe I probe each tapped hole location on the casting for setting a new Z-plane so that my chamfers are always the same size as the casting can be in different positions from earlier operations. I also probe ribs to center my drilled/tapped holes in the rib for the same reason. I also use the "4th Axis X Measure" cycle and can have an operator throw up a part and let the probe set the rotation for the B instead of the operator spending time indicating it in. Also on jobs that require minimum cleanup on a face I probe the face in multiple locations setting different offsets, then I have a custom macro i wrote that will find the "lowest" point of the Z work offsets and then set my offset to that value. Then I mill at -.005. And boom, guaranteed clean-up. I also use the probe to measure machined features and check tapers that would be difficult for an operator to check without pulling the part and going to the CMM.

  5. No idea what you are showing me there. Where is that toolpath and how does that tie into a probe routine?

    It's a custom drill cycle. You can change all the text to read whatever you like. I have my post set up to output probing cycles and have my stylus/probe body/holder drawn up so i can backplot my toolpath and know i won't crash the probe on the operator. you can also change the text on the linking parameters page...

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