Houdini
Titanium
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2017
Hello all.
I couldn't find a answer to this issue, and before I throw some brain power into it, I thought I would ask.
How are you programming and or posting code for dual station vises, where the back part needs to rotated or mirrored to keep correct zero datum.
I have been posting for 1 part, and doing all the work in the CAM software, but it gets big and laborious.
I just bought rotation and scaling for all my machines, but didnt think about how i was going to get the corrected code, and now it seems more laborious to use G68
than to do it in CAM as I was, waste of money it seems now.
Here is what I have been doing:
-CAM has operations programmed for 1 single part.
-A NEWWFO(54) piece of code has been added to the first operation with a different tool.
This adds a G54 in post gcode once the first operation with this tool is called.
-then I copy/rotate these operations
-all the copy rotate operations also have a G54 at the first operation with a different tool,
I change all these G54's to G55
-In the machine I grab the G54 on the first vice location as normal.
-I grab the G55 in the rotated location of the G54 on the second jaw location.
Any better ways?
I couldn't find a answer to this issue, and before I throw some brain power into it, I thought I would ask.
How are you programming and or posting code for dual station vises, where the back part needs to rotated or mirrored to keep correct zero datum.
I have been posting for 1 part, and doing all the work in the CAM software, but it gets big and laborious.
I just bought rotation and scaling for all my machines, but didnt think about how i was going to get the corrected code, and now it seems more laborious to use G68
than to do it in CAM as I was, waste of money it seems now.
Here is what I have been doing:
-CAM has operations programmed for 1 single part.
-A NEWWFO(54) piece of code has been added to the first operation with a different tool.
This adds a G54 in post gcode once the first operation with this tool is called.
-then I copy/rotate these operations
-all the copy rotate operations also have a G54 at the first operation with a different tool,
I change all these G54's to G55
-In the machine I grab the G54 on the first vice location as normal.
-I grab the G55 in the rotated location of the G54 on the second jaw location.
Any better ways?