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Secondary axis rotation is 90* off...
Cavi Mike replied to Cavi Mike's topic in Post Processor Development Forum
Forum only let me make 3 posts the other day. I tried every combo of the base matrix possible but the only thing that came close was the standard VMC layout. I think at one point with your layout I could have made a good part, but the entire part would have been orientated 90* which would have just been confusing. Turns out, all I had to do was swap vectors on the primary axis and voila, I got the code I was looking for. Thanks for the help! -
I kind of assumed this would be a standard thing in this post. What do I need to change? I know I could "force tool change" with each OP but that seems a bit excessive.
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Secondary axis rotation is 90* off...
Cavi Mike replied to Cavi Mike's topic in Post Processor Development Forum
I'm starting to understand why it's off - the post thinks this is the typical trunnion in a VMC, which it sort of is, except instead of the primary axis rotating about X, it's rotating about Y. So that's what I need to figure out. -
Secondary axis rotation is 90* off...
Cavi Mike replied to Cavi Mike's topic in Post Processor Development Forum
I switched to those and things got really weird. XY locations are way off on one side, pretty sure the post is trying to machine from the back side of the part now. "B" is the standard HMC axis that rotates the pallet about Y axis, "A" (which really should be C) faces the spindle and rotates about the Z axis. B is doing what it should, XY locations are where they should be, it's "A" that's off by 90* - but only once B rotates. If B is at 0, A is fine. -
I can't figure this out. If A and B are 0, everything is fine, part is orientated correctly, however everything goes awry as soon as I try to do some side holes. I thought it was an issue with a tool/work plane in MC but it seems that as long as Z is pointing in the correct direction, it doesn't matter which way X and Y point, the code will always output the same. I'm modifying the generic Fanuc 5axis post to use in a HMC. This machine has always been run as a 3+2 but I'm trying to use it as a proper 5axis for once.