I once joined the platinum or diamond club for Mitsubishi for like $2200. I called in my first ever application question last week and got screened and left my application problem message with my number and e-mail and received no reply. Maybe I didn't rate a response. I don't have that problem with any other brand of machine on the floor, and none of them ever asked me to purchase membership in a club. I had also previously e-mailed the question to a application person with no reply so this is the second no reply attempt to contact them. We have done ~$20,000 in historical service work with MC Machinery in only about 2 weeks of total site time.
Maybe someone here knows how to program a pickup of a tilted work coordinate and pickup of the center of that tilt taught work coordinate, and could help me with documentation or something? I have a desire to be able to mount a master setting tool to workholding with two bores, one high and one low, and have the machine pickup the center of the top and bottom bore, and teach the tilt angle, and then probe for the center, so that I can program a vertical CAD/CAM perfect EDM program on the offset and run a flat programmed CAM program, but cut a tilted cut that is straight to actual workholding relationship represented by a rather large plate and stacked mount and adapter fixturing the actual part.
So for instance if a workholding position is .006" out over 7" of height, the EDM machine can teach that tilt and then teach the center to the control, allowing it to cut true to the actual part relationship in reality. This would improve accuracy and reduce the need for perfectly adjusted work-holding for better support of multiple (many) work coordinates rather than one or two very carefully settup work coordinates.
So every workholding position cutting the same program could have tiny compound angle corrections taught in the workshift based on the master setting tool that promote the most accurate cutting possible.
I feel for the guys in the field working jobs that have to depend on Mitsubishi. In my limited experience it is tough to get help on MC machines and that makes them less profitable and higher stress for customers.
Maybe someone here knows how to program a pickup of a tilted work coordinate and pickup of the center of that tilt taught work coordinate, and could help me with documentation or something? I have a desire to be able to mount a master setting tool to workholding with two bores, one high and one low, and have the machine pickup the center of the top and bottom bore, and teach the tilt angle, and then probe for the center, so that I can program a vertical CAD/CAM perfect EDM program on the offset and run a flat programmed CAM program, but cut a tilted cut that is straight to actual workholding relationship represented by a rather large plate and stacked mount and adapter fixturing the actual part.
So for instance if a workholding position is .006" out over 7" of height, the EDM machine can teach that tilt and then teach the center to the control, allowing it to cut true to the actual part relationship in reality. This would improve accuracy and reduce the need for perfectly adjusted work-holding for better support of multiple (many) work coordinates rather than one or two very carefully settup work coordinates.
So every workholding position cutting the same program could have tiny compound angle corrections taught in the workshift based on the master setting tool that promote the most accurate cutting possible.
I feel for the guys in the field working jobs that have to depend on Mitsubishi. In my limited experience it is tough to get help on MC machines and that makes them less profitable and higher stress for customers.