By chance could you post an equipment list?

Well, every probe cycle you run, one of the variable outputs is True Position. Usually #145

It's certainly doable, but if you're going to buy parts off doing this then you will need to laser and ball bar the machine at regualr intervals and you'll need a volumetric error map as well. Crazy MIllman can probably fill you in a littl ebetter as far as QC requirements for that.

Next, you'll need to either write the cycles by hand, purchase the Renishaw Productivity+ software package or purchase Mastercam's Renishaw Add-On. You can export reports via RS-232 or memory card on your machine using DPRNT.

We do some spot inspection from time to time if our CMM is backed up. We can format the reports out of the machine however we need to. It's not too complicated. We've got scales our machines so accuracy isn;t much of a worry but we probe more for re-machining operations so we'll know the part will fit on the 2nd Operation Fixtures.

If CAMplete comes with the machine, you won't have to worry about posting, simulation or collision detection. It handles that. We have it for our MAM72's here. We originally thought about going with Vericut but after we used CAMplete for about 6 months, it did everything we needed it to do so we nixed the Vericut demo. We've been using it for about 4 years.

@Aeroguy, it may not have been what you spec'd out, but give it a chance. A company we offload work to from time to time has one and he loves it. Can't speak from personal experience about it but the guy we know sure raves about it. We sent one of our 63V CAMplete files over to him and with a little tweaking of the fixture location, he was up and running our part in a couple hours. We sent tooling, workholding and the CAMplete file to him and he turned the parts around in a day and a half. CMM reports were comparable to what we get.

i7 is what I have. It works well.

Are you getting CAMplete with the machine?

And...the print calls out MS33....I look that up....Superceded by MS33... rev ewhich I find is cancelled and rolled intoAS5202....which shows dimensional tolerances on everything except....minor dia. so they....reference AS 8879when on the DOD site has that document with just a reference to ...SAE AS8879now... 60 dollars later...find it is the same spec as the mil S....which was referenced in the original...MS33!!!!Good grief.

... and sign it in filpicate.

Yeah, Power Off parameters are always troublesome. Why don't you dedicate one rotary to one machine and the other one to the other machine. Yeah it limits you on some ways but that's beats parameter grief every day of the week to me.

Forgot to mention we're getting CAMplete together with the machine.

Good Stuff Maynard!

The Oi-D" Series control mimics the 30 series controls.

G10L52

N_P_R_

G11

N = Parameter Number

P = Axis Number (X, Y, Z, A/B/C = 1, 2, 3, 4/5/6)

R = Parameter Setting Value (leading zeros can be omitted)

Here's a sample that changes the I/O Parameter (omits P because this is not an axis)

G90G10L52(WRITING TO PARAMETERS)

N20R4(CHANGE TO FLASH CARD)

G11(FINISH WRITING TO PARAMETERS)

Hopefully this helps.

I like an elegant macro just as much as the next techie, but sometimes quick and dirty rules the day.

Yuuuuuup!

I've got a friend in IT... Let's just say if you're on a Win 7x64 machine, waiting until Win 9 would not be such a bad idea and leave it at that.

Goode here is running an 8 box I believe though. You'll need to kill tiles to make it usable I believe.

Seems like I have a comprehension issue. I am sorry...

Seems like I have an autocorrect fail issue

We're all just trying to help the guy's cause...

The machine is an Ingersoll Gantry Mill with a full 5-Axis nutation head...

I sure hope someone proves me wrong, but I don't think TCP will help you with RAH.

I'm trying to figure out how and why RAH got brought into the discussion about a mutating head machine. :headscratch:

TCPC is mandatory on a mutating head machine... Unless you feel like reporting every time you break a tool.

In your cycles in the post there's two sections you need to look at;

pdrl, ptap, etc... Then you need to look at the _2 cycle section. In those sections, you'll see the axis letters, put a *in front of the axis letter to force it to post out.

I have found the the hight cost ones at Radio shack do work but the best Idea is to get a PMCIA Com port card works the best this what I use.

Unless of course your laptop does not have a slot which is becoming more common by the day.

I'd go with Smooth TCPC, 8MB CNC Memory (which is the max memory available on the CNC side), 1GB Dataserver, 48 Additional Offsets, AI-NANO II, 1,000 Block Look Ahead, Custom MACRO B, Additional MACRO Variables, Renishaw tool Setting An Part Probing.

That's about all I can think of at the moment.

Usually, the machines are tuned to "worst case scenario", meaning max weight, etc... Sometimes not even that. Depends on the builder.

In the post, you'll need to call xh$, yh$, zh$, to get that output I believe.

@Tony, it is considered yelling to type in all caps.

@ Micallen, if you do heavy surface/HST toolpaths, it would be a wise investment to bump the processor, graphics, and memory if possible.

Yes. You still have to turn it on though.

On the last page of the old surface tool paths, there are options to have the toolpath extended off the surface (along only). I never extend surfaces in the along direction anymore.

HTH

I do use it for setting up planes if I have a bunch, other than that... It just does not fit the parts I generally see.

DMG's are weak but I'm biased. The "Toliet Bowl" style 5-Axis is pretty much the worst design of all the types that are out there. They are great for Axis Travel, but they are weak, especially the further you get away from center. I would NEVER even consider one of these. Trunion first, Nutating Head Second, and Toliet Bowl is a DISTANT 3rd. So distant it's not even a consideration.