wrustle
Titanium
- Joined
- Jun 8, 2006
- Location
- Massachusetts
Our new 2020 Haas ST-10Y just hit the floor last Wednesday. Waiting for the electrician now to come in this week and then for the Haas install techs to come and get it going.
I have zero experience with not only the live tooling in the machine, but also the Y axis aspect of it.
Like the vast majority of us in here, self teaching is going to be in full swing very quickly! In the mean time, it is and will be another spindle for all our small part turning, so it's not like it will be there in the corner sitting idle all the time.
So please.......all you live tool lathe with Y axis guru's.......I am all ears!
Should I be looking into adding a mill/turn module to our existing programming software?
It is Bobcad V31 and before all the nasty comments start.....I love it, it makes us great money, and I'm not about to change since we've been using the new version every year since V25, so please........keep the flamethrowers in the closet!
The control does come with VPS so I could always program at the machine, but that's not how we do things in my shop, I program everything from my desk and send them out to the shop on a flashdrive with the job route sheets inside the clear plastic folder. Keeps everything nice and tidy!
Thanks in advance for any and all advice!
Russ
I have zero experience with not only the live tooling in the machine, but also the Y axis aspect of it.
Like the vast majority of us in here, self teaching is going to be in full swing very quickly! In the mean time, it is and will be another spindle for all our small part turning, so it's not like it will be there in the corner sitting idle all the time.
So please.......all you live tool lathe with Y axis guru's.......I am all ears!
Should I be looking into adding a mill/turn module to our existing programming software?
It is Bobcad V31 and before all the nasty comments start.....I love it, it makes us great money, and I'm not about to change since we've been using the new version every year since V25, so please........keep the flamethrowers in the closet!
The control does come with VPS so I could always program at the machine, but that's not how we do things in my shop, I program everything from my desk and send them out to the shop on a flashdrive with the job route sheets inside the clear plastic folder. Keeps everything nice and tidy!
Thanks in advance for any and all advice!
Russ