GENERALDISARRAY
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- Jan 3, 2019
I have a Tsugami swiss here. We bought it new a few years ago. It is my first swiss experience.
I generate toolpaths for it out of Mastercam using the same post I use for subspindle lathes.
The issue I have is, even though I can get the correct axis combinations using upper lower turrets and subpindle. This machine, and I dont know if this is common to all swiss lathes. The ccw and cw arcs are different for different tool positions. Even with the same axis directions (ie X+dia Z+ into the part).
Is this something that could be done in the machine def or post? Where on tools 1-9 G2 is cw and 10-27 G2 is ccw?
I and just guessing, but I think this comes from Tsugami setting up the control so tools on both sides of the gang use X+. It inverts the axis direction based on active tool but not the arc direction.
I generate toolpaths for it out of Mastercam using the same post I use for subspindle lathes.
The issue I have is, even though I can get the correct axis combinations using upper lower turrets and subpindle. This machine, and I dont know if this is common to all swiss lathes. The ccw and cw arcs are different for different tool positions. Even with the same axis directions (ie X+dia Z+ into the part).
Is this something that could be done in the machine def or post? Where on tools 1-9 G2 is cw and 10-27 G2 is ccw?
I and just guessing, but I think this comes from Tsugami setting up the control so tools on both sides of the gang use X+. It inverts the axis direction based on active tool but not the arc direction.