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there is an engraving path that should work.
you could also use surface horizontal and pick the floor as drive and top of the letters as check
but i would try a pocket set to zigzag with a tapered wall angle in depth cuts
you would make a plane on the bottom and copy the operations and switch the plane to the bottom . then it will verify correct and you could either bost it all or just the first half.
transform rotate may work with y as the axis of rotation but i would have to mess around with it to see. you mat need to make a rotation plane
its for machines without look ahead. you take a piece of aluminum or delrin and mill a hole and spring it out. then you increase the feed until it overcuts and put the values in the machine def or that box i cant remember. then when you use the function it should slow down the tool to avoid overshoot on the servos.
when we do extra tight true positions we set up seperate offsets and use a sub program for probing. for that part type we would probe the hole at b0 and copy the x value to the b90 offset and then come up to b90 and probe the rest of the part at b90.
this is one example where the datum hole had to be probes at 90/ we have a shift at the end also so if you can offset for machine variances
M01
(SET G55 A TO -90.)
#5244=-90.
N50 T60 M6 ( 2MM PROBE OMP 600 )
M01
M132
G0 G90 G54 X-1.1811 Y-.1673 AX[4]=0. C0.
M131
G65 P9532 (PROBE ON)
G43 H60 T60
(PROTECTED POSITIONING CLEARANCE HEIGHT)
G65 P9510 Z1.2125
( PROBE Z SURFACE )
G65 P9510 X-1.1811 Y-.1673
G65 P9510 Z1.
G65 P9511 Z-.787 S54.
G65 P9510 Z1.2125
(PROTECTED POSITIONING)
G65 P9510 X0. Y-.1378 Z1.9999
( PROBE C AXIS ERROR COMP Y AXIS )
G65 P9510 Y-.7677
G65 P9510 Z-.3251
G65 P9518 X1.45 Y-.1378 Z-.3251 K3. B2. S54.
G65 P9510 Z1.9999
(C AXIS CORRECTION)
M24
G90 G0 G54 C0.
M23
(SET G55C EQUAL TO G54 C)
#5245=#5225
(PROTECTED POSITIONING)
G65 P9510 X0. Y-.1378 Z1.9999
( PROBE Y SURFACE )
G65 P9510 Y-.7677
G65 P9510 Z-.3001
G65 P9511 Y-.1378 S54.
G65 P9510 Z1.9999
(WCS CHANGE RETURN Z TO ZERO)
G90 G0 G49 G53 Z0
M132
G90 G0 G55 AX[4]=0. C0.
M131
G43 H60
(PROTECTED POSITIONING X AND Y)
G65 P9510 X0. Y0.
(PROTECTED POSITIONING Z)
G65 P9510 Z2.
(PROTECTED POSITIONING)
G65 P9510 X0. Y0. Z2.
( PROBE BORE )
G65 P9510 X0. Y0.
G65 P9510 Z-.1378
G65 P9514 D.8661 S55.
G65 P9510 Z2.
G65 P9533 ( PROBE OFF )
G49 G53 Z0
G5.1 Q1
G91 G28 Y0.
G90
(G54X EQUALS G55 X)
#5221=#5241
G91G10L2P1X#700
G91G10L2P1Y#701
N30T3M6(1/4 SPOT DRILL)
They had us switch 11775.0 to a 0. It was 1 and the other mam is 0. We will see tomorrow if it makes a difference.
The pc4 and other mam run it fine. If the parameter change doesn't help I'll try it
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