Quick question - have you Haas lathe owners experienced sudden "glitches" for C-axis reference while running a program sequence?
I drilled through holes as planned. Next thing up in the program was countersinking a few of them.
Realized that it had missed the previous holes entirely - the C axis reference must have become corrupted.
500 dollars worth of steel down the drain, in addition to a lot of work.
I have gone through my code that my Inventor HSM post generated.
The drilling locations match up, which (in my head at least) means that the machine has screwed this up entirely on its own - not me , my CAM or my post.
My vague theory is as follows:
All the vibration and loads from doing heavy previous operations in this duplex material may have somehow rattled something loose, in effect messing up the encoder reference or somthing - I dunno.
A few facts:
Machine is a 2020 ST-30Y (still under warranty).
Error happened after a tool change. Tool is defined as a drill in offset table without radius or diameter values.
I have done stuff like this hundreds of times on this machine - never been a problem before.
Software is Inventor 2021 with CAM "Ultimate".
I feel very frustrated just now!!
I drilled through holes as planned. Next thing up in the program was countersinking a few of them.
Realized that it had missed the previous holes entirely - the C axis reference must have become corrupted.
500 dollars worth of steel down the drain, in addition to a lot of work.
I have gone through my code that my Inventor HSM post generated.
The drilling locations match up, which (in my head at least) means that the machine has screwed this up entirely on its own - not me , my CAM or my post.
My vague theory is as follows:
All the vibration and loads from doing heavy previous operations in this duplex material may have somehow rattled something loose, in effect messing up the encoder reference or somthing - I dunno.
A few facts:
Machine is a 2020 ST-30Y (still under warranty).
Error happened after a tool change. Tool is defined as a drill in offset table without radius or diameter values.
I have done stuff like this hundreds of times on this machine - never been a problem before.
Software is Inventor 2021 with CAM "Ultimate".
I feel very frustrated just now!!