rx8pilot
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 20, 2009
- Location
- Los Angeles
I am new-ish to Fanuc controls after spending the past 13 years owning/using Haas machines with Renishaw probes. My new job has only non-probe-equipped Doosan machines from about 2005-2008 with typical Fanuc controls from that era. The senior machinist is very good, but very old school and totally content with edge finders and indicators for setup. While it eventually works - it is sloooooow. Far slower than what I am accustomed to.
I ordered a Haimer 3D taster which I expect will be a nice step up from edge finders, but still hoping for more. The next step is looking to develop or modify some macros that will help with common locating tasks like bores, center of block, center of slot, Z offset from table, etc.
I found this old thread that was interesting....
https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/cnc-machining/using-haimer-3d-something-like-probing-macros-possible-322662/
I am reasonably well versed in MACRO programming, but I don't use them every day. Is it practical to have a solution that allows me to, for example, set an X- edge and a X+ edge and have an automatic calculation of the center? Not sure if I can manually jog the machine while it is executing a MACRO.
Am I dreaming or do I need to simply do all the work with a calculator and manually type in the resulting offset?
I ordered a Haimer 3D taster which I expect will be a nice step up from edge finders, but still hoping for more. The next step is looking to develop or modify some macros that will help with common locating tasks like bores, center of block, center of slot, Z offset from table, etc.
I found this old thread that was interesting....
https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/cnc-machining/using-haimer-3d-something-like-probing-macros-possible-322662/
I am reasonably well versed in MACRO programming, but I don't use them every day. Is it practical to have a solution that allows me to, for example, set an X- edge and a X+ edge and have an automatic calculation of the center? Not sure if I can manually jog the machine while it is executing a MACRO.
Am I dreaming or do I need to simply do all the work with a calculator and manually type in the resulting offset?