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I asked why we don't use mastercam wire, pcfabcut has the technology for each fanuc wire already loaded. It's different for each machine so you don't have to figure all that stuff out and load it into mastercam
The fine print on the kitamura recommends a plus or minus 2° environment.
.001should be doable but you will need to keep the machine temp consistent and may have to do fine tweaking with the stock to leave. Some of our parts have 20 micron true positions so we will usually make a sub program with a separate work offset on our matsuura and probe the datums
Sometimes you can use absolute top of stock with incremental depth for they are different depths from one plane.
You can also make toolpath sub groups that would house each tool
If your just probing holes and faces for work offsets you can do it thru the extra drill cycles.
When I measure a surface I put the measurement macro in-between the cycles with a manual entry.
If you can decipher the yellow book it may give you the parameter to check.
On old times we have to pick the current machine twice to get the control def text to show up.
Sometimes it crashes and says there is a memory problem after trying this
Hit it with some ospho to stop the rust then use a coolant that doesn't cause it.
The factory paint in our mam was gone after 3 parts where the facemill threw them.
With something like Camplete the plane origin doesn't matter. If you want the origin to be the center of rotation I would right click and duplicate, then edit to your desired angle.
We had a metal 3 phase conduit come loose exposing the wires by about 3 inches. It made all the transfers fail.
Cranky Hank our resident cranky olde timer went to school for electrical engineering. He put a wrap of tin foil on it and it was restored to proper function
I would recommend programming quadrants with 4 work offsets. Probe or indicate each zero.
I had a similar part and when I went to do a final skim I used the set angle lock in Camplete. 3 120 degree positions. Basically the same as 3 work offsets
When i did it i modified a 4 axis post with the correct z axis rotary orientation. i couldn't get it to stay on the left side which is what i needed, but it did work after some transform hacking. now i use camplete to do it and it works with TCP much better.
It appears that module works licenses their paths to cam software companies.
They may have a patent on it. So if that's the case you either pay the license fee or you have to buy the company for the patent.
I should let you know I'm only a self declared expert. ( The best kind imho)
Were they open pockets?
I had an issue with several jobs in 2020 that posted fine for 4 or 5 years in previous versions and then randomly would omit roughing passes. If I had actually followed the old set up sheet and used an insert mill instead of an accupro when we transferred it to our mam it would have exploded the cutter.
We had the moxa boxes and I think we got them up to fanuc setting 12 which may be 19k baud.
Almost all of our moxa boxes blew up. They replaced them with the new rev version and they have been better.
But at that rate I tried to send an 8 meg program and it took an hour before I stopped it. I ended up running dnc and eventually from the card.
I would visually inspect the capacitors on the boards. If the x in the end is bloated it is gone.
Anything beyond that you should get a board schematic.or find someone familiar who knows what goes bad in those units
One of our mx 520s blew the hydraulic pump for the second time. First they wouldn't sell us just the pump because of some efficiency b/s. So we got one from somewhere else.
Then the second time there was a 9 week lead time on a pump and 14 for the whole unit.
We ended up getting a fancy unit with a small pump with its own controller. It seems to run cooler
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