Rick Finsta
Stainless
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2017
Did you mark the position of the motor pulley and the position of the ballscrew pulley when you removed the z motor?
Yes, but it didn't matter - the motor had been removed by the machine dealer for over a week and had forgotten its position, so I had to reset all that manually. It honestly would only have taken a moment to do had it not been for my inability to figure out that the ATC being slightly bumped towards the column was locking Z-axis travel.
I can post the code this afternoon, but it is a simple facing operation output from the Fusion 360 Fanuc post processor. - I messed up G90/G91 on a manual edit and it tried to apply the tool offset while at Absolute (Machine) Z0 and in doing so it tried to move the spindle up and hit the overtravel (indicating to me that it is moving the spindle when it applies G43 - I could be wrong). The thing is I found a bunch of references to the 5006 parameter but the 0i-Mate MB parameter manual I have shows nothing there. I will have to look at the hard copy parameter manual I got with the machine. Basically I want G43 to change the work coordinate system and not physically move the Z-axis. I feel that is a good way to avoid some pretty nasty crash scenarios.
That is just a separate "feel good" thing in addition to my need to develop a tool offset procedure using the Haimer and the touch off gauge.
The tool that I was using is 0.8595" longer than the length of the Haimer at its Z-zero position (probe plunger depressed). I think this means it gets a positive offset, but it it further towards the table, so that may be a negative offset? I'm just trying to figure out the nomenclature.