MwTech Inc
Titanium
- Joined
- Feb 6, 2005
- Location
- Fishersville VA
Yea..... I'm the guy getting the old Hitachi vm-40......
It does have a mounted working 4th axis...
It's going to be two weeks till I get it, but......looking ahead....
To simply rotate the 4th 90 degs and stay put, is G0 G90 A090 correct?.....then A180/A270???
Not trying to rotate and mill at the same time, just expose new parts to be cut.
Assuming the use of a tombstone style fixture, I see no reason you wouldn't code the program as if you were doing say, 4 parts in a row on the table or in 4 vises.
It 's just your work offsets are going to be so many inches higher.......right.?
So after offsets are done, you run the first pass, pull up z, rotate 90, repeat until all 4 sides are done....right?
Not sure about this "unwinding thing", not sure if the old 6m can do that?? or if i have to put code in to reverse? If so no big deal.
Can you use the wheel to reverse so you can unload/load parts while going back?
Newbie questions i know....
It does have a mounted working 4th axis...
It's going to be two weeks till I get it, but......looking ahead....
To simply rotate the 4th 90 degs and stay put, is G0 G90 A090 correct?.....then A180/A270???
Not trying to rotate and mill at the same time, just expose new parts to be cut.
Assuming the use of a tombstone style fixture, I see no reason you wouldn't code the program as if you were doing say, 4 parts in a row on the table or in 4 vises.
It 's just your work offsets are going to be so many inches higher.......right.?
So after offsets are done, you run the first pass, pull up z, rotate 90, repeat until all 4 sides are done....right?
Not sure about this "unwinding thing", not sure if the old 6m can do that?? or if i have to put code in to reverse? If so no big deal.
Can you use the wheel to reverse so you can unload/load parts while going back?
Newbie questions i know....