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20k and up requires the spindles to be stopped before turning it on and off.
The 12 and 15,000 spindles you could turn it on and off while it's running
On our machines if you hit the TSC button while it's running it doesn't do anything. I like it that way because on our V+ 1000 with 20K spindle some busy body tried to turn it off to look in the door and we lost 12 hours of overnight running because it alarmed out
Yes they do. It will be called material boundary when you look at the op manager.
It will not work with "stock rest mill"
You will have to open the boundary on the 3 sides like 3x cutter dia
How big is your material boundary? If you don't put one in I believe it makes a square out of everything you picked.
Draw containment boundary The area you wanted to cut on a different level so you can turn it off later. Select that as boundary it will call it a material boundary It shouldn't go below that more than half the tool
I made a clear offset maco for after a job clearing tool offsets. It puts 40 inches for z in the event a tool hasn't been touched off.. I would be interested in yours once you get it figured out.
The renishaw probe settings program turns the look ahead off also I believe
Usually when we probe z for every part the tracks relatively well. Have a probe the part right before you cut the feature. You can't probe it and then a half hour later after running blast coolant expected to be thermally stable when you cut that feature.
Are you using a lot of through spindle coolant? That will heat the enclosure 10 to 20° above room temperature at prolonged periods of time.
When I did it they called out a thickness It was like an acme thread.
I just experimented with the contour chain rotating it until I got what I wanted. You can do the same thing for a regular thread
It works good for divide.
I was doing some plunge milling and I used it to trim the inside of the arcs I drew so I could use it as a air region. I just wave the mouse around and I was done. But if you go too fast sometimes it reinserts the trim
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