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Hi all,
Mr curious here...
I just stumbled across he who shall not be named blog, which said 'In addition, when it comes to 4th axis work you have to manually create a WCS for every side of the part you want to machine on'
Is this the correct way to do rotary work?
For vice work (or any job that requires a different setup from one operation to the next), we set a new WCS for that individual setup.
For rotary (4th axis) work we set the top view (A0), set wcs + t&c plane, and then set the front view (A270) t&c plane WITHOUT TOUCHING THE WCS, and then any other faces set t&c planes again WITHOUT touching the WCS.
This outputs code correctly for us.
So it works for us which is great, but is this the *correct* way, or should we be setting a wcs for each rotational view?
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