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There may be a switch in the beginning to force it out,
Based on the way you are doing that I would go intothe prapidout post block and change the speed to *speed. It may be spelled differently I haven't look in a while.
Better of using a force tool change with manual entry in my opinion. You are getting lucky because the control is remembering modal commands
I did this in our matsuura by modifying a generic 4 axis post. But it kept posting on the right side and I needed it on the left and was I unable to get it to do that. I ended up having to do it transform operation and I was able to hack my way through it.
Camplete offers a pretty good utility to accomplish this though
The post itself we got from the matsura tech. It's nothing special. He had all the clearance heights on absolute and he swears they were on incremental. I don't know if it's related to the missing geometry but it's only small sections of chains. But it does warn if you go to delete an associated entity
Is there a cause for this? my coworker said the operation wasn't dirty. he didn't watch camplete because it was a proven operation and it broke the tool.
The fanuc parameters are more important, Camplete uses them for the simulation so if your getting super close to the machine parts.
We always cut a test block on 5 sides with two holes 180 degrees apart. Then you can set the tool height by measuring the width. Then check from 1 face on each side for one direction and the top face to the hole for the other direction
When you program off the datums and not the center of rotation are you shifting it when you go into Camplete? Otherwise a simulation is going to be cockeyed.
It's a tradeoff between resolution and holding torque.
A 5mm pitch will get you .0001 inch steps if you microstep it 10x. But you are losing some holding torque by chopping the steps that much.
When I sent mine up in Linux CNC there's a testing menu where you can run it at whatever speed you want then you can monitor for missed steps
We usually retap our nickel plated threads.
For tight surfaces we compensate the .01mm for nickel usually. Unless it's a dowel pin hole we mask those.
For invar we had to have the plater nickel plate them strip them and replate them and it resulted in a better plating and no flaking
Those are in the fanuc control. You set those to the actual trunion values and ideally would match Camplete
So yes your indicated position would go there
Yes tpc you can probe or indicate the part in, set g54 and go.
With Camplete it doesn'atter how your planes are set. A program for an ac Machine can be reposted for a bc machine with no modifications. You don't even need a new nc format
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