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Luke.kerbey
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Hi folks,
Hopefully someone can shed some light on this fundamental alignment setup.
I’ve been trying to get my taper cutting down to a tee recently and have been using my machines TDTL_V2 as opposed to the TDTL.
Firstly,
- What is the difference between V1 and V2?
- how frequently does everyone run this cycle?
- When it asks for an angle in offset H0000, should this be the angle I’m setting up to cut only? What if my part has a range of angles like 5-15 degrees? Should I just use 10? If I use 0 degrees Will that only check vertical alignment?
- also, why would my table to limit be 0.5mm or so different from the last time it was ran?
I have had the top head off and realigned since then but that shouldn’t affect the limit position? How is this actually calculated?
- in the manual it says to put in the table limit, and table lower, but the cycle also calculates the table to upper and when I input the new table limit, my table to upper is out by the same difference. Should I up date this aswell?
I know this changes every time I move the head, but the relationship between the two will be wrong if it isn’t updated?
- I’m also lucky enough to have the taperflex option on my machine. Can I use the normal 20 degree guides with my taperflex jig and measuring cycle? Or will it not work because of the internal guide geometry difference between the Taperflex and standard guides?
- lastly, what else should I know? Or have made apparent that I don’t know? I’m on my own now, so I’ve only got myself to learn from.
Yes there’s a few questions there. Hopefully some of you folks can help answer a few of them.
I really need to get my taper cutting down to perfection. I make extrusion tooling so I have a lot of angled transitions between many plates in one tool so it helps when it all matches up at the end!
I’ve been using the taperflex a lot recently and have had so pretty decent results. But could still be better. I’ll chew those questions another time!!
Thanks, Luke.
Hopefully someone can shed some light on this fundamental alignment setup.
I’ve been trying to get my taper cutting down to a tee recently and have been using my machines TDTL_V2 as opposed to the TDTL.
Firstly,
- What is the difference between V1 and V2?
- how frequently does everyone run this cycle?
- When it asks for an angle in offset H0000, should this be the angle I’m setting up to cut only? What if my part has a range of angles like 5-15 degrees? Should I just use 10? If I use 0 degrees Will that only check vertical alignment?
- also, why would my table to limit be 0.5mm or so different from the last time it was ran?
I have had the top head off and realigned since then but that shouldn’t affect the limit position? How is this actually calculated?
- in the manual it says to put in the table limit, and table lower, but the cycle also calculates the table to upper and when I input the new table limit, my table to upper is out by the same difference. Should I up date this aswell?
I know this changes every time I move the head, but the relationship between the two will be wrong if it isn’t updated?
- I’m also lucky enough to have the taperflex option on my machine. Can I use the normal 20 degree guides with my taperflex jig and measuring cycle? Or will it not work because of the internal guide geometry difference between the Taperflex and standard guides?
- lastly, what else should I know? Or have made apparent that I don’t know? I’m on my own now, so I’ve only got myself to learn from.
Yes there’s a few questions there. Hopefully some of you folks can help answer a few of them.
I really need to get my taper cutting down to perfection. I make extrusion tooling so I have a lot of angled transitions between many plates in one tool so it helps when it all matches up at the end!
I’ve been using the taperflex a lot recently and have had so pretty decent results. But could still be better. I’ll chew those questions another time!!
Thanks, Luke.