This is one of the many areas I believe Matsuura is FAR superior to the toilet bowl lovers in machine design. Matsuura can get closer to the pallet center with the head/spindle. Doing this allows you to run shorter tool assemblies and it requires shorter work holding to get ot he part. All that to say a more rigid machining setup = the best metal removal scenario possible. In the MAM series they offer the MAM72-35V, MAM72-42V, MAM72-52V, MAM72-70V, and MAM72-100H. Then in the CUBLEX series there is a CUBLEX-35 and a CUBLEX-63. There was a CUBLEX-42 but I believe they discontinued it. 350mm, 420mm, 520mm, 700mm, and 1000mm respectively. The number after the dash is the CM value of MAX pallet Changing swing diameter essentially.

Also, if you've got the inspection stuff squared away, it's easy peasy to generate reports, csv data, etc... If you can imagine it, you can format it, and generate reports.

Adding non manufacturing time adds TAKT time. Added TAKT time = higher cost. That said, WIP = Inventory. Inventory = Money. Money = Taxation Parts in inspection = WIP therefore there's a cost no matter where the part is within the factory. If you can integrate and automate processes you can bring down the labor component of part cost. "There are no perfect solutions, only compromises." Thomas Sowell

I hear that A LOT. They like Yamazen use their AE departments as a training ground for the sales department... and it shows. Few of their AE's here in the US are dedicated to that craft for any REAL span of time. That's just the reality. I do know of an AE at Mori that's been with them since the 90's and I'd expect his to be a good 5-Axis guy since he came form Makino but he doesn't go out in the field... so what good is all that experience if you as a customer don't have access to it.

It can be done effectively... it just has to be approached in the right manner. The #1 issue with inspecting a part on the machine that produced it isn't that the machine is checking itself, it is that the connection between the coordinate system that manufactured the part and the coordinate system that is inspecting the part isn't broken. You MUST break that connection in order to get an accurate measurement. On a 5-Axis machine with a FANUC control, that means having G68.2, G54.4, machine parameters set correctly, AND the probing software that supports probing with those functions active. Don;t have ALL those things squared away and there WILL be trouble in paradise.

Matsuura has been palletizing 5-Axis machines since 1992. They (as did the majority of 5-Axis builders) left that toilet bowl design the Germans seem hell bent on using in the dust LONG ago. It's not the best design for a table/table kinematic machine. Trunion is the best for table/table.

Support should be the #1 consideration when buying a 5-Axis machine. Much like a multi-tasking lathe support will make or break that machine. You could buy "the best" (whatever that is) machine but when the good for nothing AE shows up to train you, he (or she) has no clue about cutting parameters to utilize the machine to maximize it's capability, it's going to be on YOU to figure out. Oh sure, they'll tell you "... that's the CAM system's responsibility...", and it is, but only to a certain extent. When they cannot explain to you the role of point spacing, cut distance, and tolerance, and how it relates to machine performance, you ARE in for trouble.

https://schunk.com/us/en/workpiece-clamping-technology/manual-clamping-systems/c/PUB_8334 www.raptorworkholding.com https://www.mate.com/pages/metalheads/ To name a few...

When I need to do this I program a contour toolpath. On the filter tab I turn off arc filtering and turn on break arcs into line segments. I use CAMplete as my Post Processing solution and in there I change it from a 3+2 Toolpath to a 5-Axis (S-TCP) Toolpath then force it to either be on the correct side to keep it in travel. There are probably easier or other ways to do it, that's just how I do it.

I just did a fresh install of CAMplete... Fusion360 was not installed automatically.

My understanding is the same as JP's... USB Hasp is a thing of the past. Relics of a bygone era. I haven't had one for quite some time.

Legal; Neither me, nor my company are responsible for any paramters yiu change. Your machine is your responsibility. It is advisable to consult a competent Machine Tool Applications Engineer that is familiar with your machine. Without further adieu, some of my favorites are as follows: #929=1, 1=Always make FTP Data in Attribute = ASCII #1300.1 = 1 Handle Jog OT alarm not output. (NAL) #1401.1 =1 No dogleg rapid (LRP) #1401.4 = 1 Rapid Stops when Feed Override is at 0% (RF0) #1604.0 = 0 AICC not on always in Auto Mode. (SHP) #3106.6 = 0 During TWP or WSEC, "Absolute" position display is Program Coordinate system (DAK) #3203.6 = 0 - Do Not Delete MDI Program after execution (MER) #3203.7 = 0 - MDI Program not cleared by reset (MCL) #3204.6 = 1 - Do not Automatically erase MDI program. (MKP) #3207.5 = 1 Display #500-#549 MACRO Variable Name (VRN) 7 #3233.1 = 1 (PDM) Folders in the Dataserver can be set as the foreground and background folder #3301.7 = 1 Screen Capture Enable (HDC) - Hold Shift for 5 sec. #5004.2 - 1 = Diameter, 0 = Radius for CC. (ODI) #5013 = MAX Wear Offset Value #5014 = MAX INC Wear Offset Input (INP.+ Method) #5148 (VMC Boring in Z-Axis) Z 1 = Shift X+ -1 = Shift X- 2 = Shift Y+ -2 = Shift Y- ALL other axes = 0 #5200.5 = 1 High Speed style peck tap (PCP) #5202.0 = 1 for Spindle Orient prior to rigid tap (reboot req.) (ORI) #5213 = Rigid Tap Backoff Dist. #5400.5 = 1 (LV3) Rotates MACRO Variables to be read in active coordinate system - For Probing in TWP. #6001.3 = 1 Output all MACRO Variables on punch (PV5) #6001.6 = 1 #100-#199 not cleared on reset. (CCV) #6005.0 = 1 In Sub Program Call use Sequence Number (SQC) #6008.3 = 1 On reset, POPEN is closed (KOP). #6019.0 = 1 Output all variables as decimal number (MCO) #6019.3 = 0 File Format of output file =PRNTnnnn.DAT (OFN) non =0000-9999 #6019.7 = 1 File Format of output file =PRNTnnnn.DAT (SFN) non =0000-9999 is memorized. #11200.3 = 1 system variable #5061- #5080 Skip Coordinates can be read - for probing with WSEC active (WSK) #11350.1=1 Current section of program only displayed, not look ahead section (APD) (Requires Reboot) #11351.6=1 Parameter Group Names Displayed (GTD) #13451.1 = 1 TWP 0's ok. (ATW) #14701.5 & .4 = 1 Maximum clipboard size. (CLP) (Reboot Req.) #14853.4 = 1 - Able to transfer from memory card to Dataserver. (Reboot Req.) (MDO) #14854.6 = 1 Program Input/Output is enabled during Background Editing (BGO) #19746.4 = 1 (TBP) for G41.2/G42.2

So #19703-#19705 are your 1/2 offsets. Think of these as deviation from perfect alignment around the tilt axis and rotary axis intersections. The values for your table should have come with the paperwork for the rotary table inspection report. Your machine should be a B/C kinematic so yiu would be concerned with #19704 and #19705. An A/B would be concerned with #19703 and #19704, and an A/C machine would be concerned with #19703 and #19705. Unfortunately I'm away from my laptop today so I don't have all my info readily available. "Some" parameters are in maintenance books, some are in the connection manuals, others are in the Operation Manuals.common to Lathe Center.and Machining Center. It's a little confusing, but I kind of get it. I haven't found the descriptions to not be there. Some parameters are specific to builders and are not listed.

#5400.5 = 1 (LV3) Rotates MACRO Variables to be read in active coordinate system - For Probing while TWP is active. Interesting about being out of range. In a few machines I've encountered over the years, for some unexplainable reason, I've had to set #1301.7 = 0 Stroke Pre-Check Off because for some reason the control thinks it is going to overtravel while TWP was active. It's only been on certain FANUV CNC Series and Edition Softwares. But the machine never did overtravel. High Level Math... one of the great mysteries for me.

Interesting parameter differences. Why do you guys turn off LV3 off ever @Paul Anderson? I'm not familiar with top mapped approach point. I always have G54.4Pn in my code (Work Setting Error Compensation) which REQUIRES no linear position move until after G68.2 I missed you not having that function activated. My mistake. There's different rules for different functions and different combinations of functions.