Haas tm1p g107 engraving issue need help

Hello all, i will admit i am a total noob with cnc milling been running a tl1 for a year but just purchased a new tm1p with 4th axis hrt100 rotary so i can engrave calibers on barrels and flute barrels.

i was practicing engraving on flat surfaces with the g47 and it was working perfect. see pic. then after watching the videos it said you could just put the g107 code in set up offsets and it would wrap the text well it does but it is writing everything upside down. i went to settings and turned a axis mirroring on with no change. i put a 180 deg in for I and that didn't help. i called my haas dealer and the guy there was stumped and said he would get back with me i sent him my program and pics.

here is the program can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong or if there is a setting i just don't know about? thanks in advance for the help

O00011 (Cylinder Engraving test program);
(g54 Y Centerline X face Z top);
T6 M06;
G00 G90 G40 G49 G54;
G00 X0.5 Y0.0 A0.0;
S6000 M03;
G43 H06 Z0.1;
G107 A0. Y0. R0.53125
M08;
G187 P3 E0.002;
G47 P0 (MDWS 24 GPC 4G8) X0.5 Y0.0 I0. J0.12 R0.1 Z-0.005 F15. E10.;
G00 G80 Z0.1;
G00 Z2. M09;
G107;
G90 G00 A0.0;
G53 G00 G90 Y0.0 Z0.0 M05;
G187;
M30

The only thing I see is you may need to change I to I180. and you have to include the "."

athack said:

The only thing I see is you may need to change I to I180. and you have to include the "."

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thank you

the 180 don't work tried it i finally got it to work by setting the y axis to mirror but i couldn't leave it like that so a haas rep told me to use the g101 and g100 in the program and i did that it works just don't seem right i think the rotary was set up wrong but my hfo is stumpped.

at least i have a work around now.

athack said:

The only thing I see is you may need to change I to I180. and you have to include the "."

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also i already learned the hard way about the "." first program i wrote i forgot it on the feed rate and spent 4 hours trying to figure out why a 4 line program would not run. as a buddy told me Missing a period will always screw over a man lol

thanks again

A-axis mirroring didn't do anything?

What do you mean by that? The engraving end result was the same? Or it didn't change rotation directions?

Looks to me like you have a reverse rotary. On the Settings -> Rotary tab, does the model name have a -R at the end? (this was a relatively recent change)

There's two options for the same model, a standard and a reverse. Just switch it and you should be fine.

thesidetalker said:

A-axis mirroring didn't do anything?

What do you mean by that? The engraving end result was the same? Or it didn't change rotation directions?

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a axis mirroring didn't work i am using the g107 for wraping a standard program around a cylinder. the a axis mirroring didn't change anything in the resuts of how it engraved. the 180 changed the direction from left to right to right to left but it was still backwards.

as i said i then mirrored Y because the g107 is wrapping the y axis around a and that worked. so then i changed the setting back to normal then added a g101 y0. right before my g107 and now it engraves fine. i shut it off with a g100 y0. at the end of the program.

coyoinu said:

Looks to me like you have a reverse rotary. On the Settings -> Rotary tab, does the model name have a -R at the end? (this was a relatively recent change)

There's two options for the same model, a standard and a reverse. Just switch it and you should be fine.

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that is what i thought. my rotary is a hrt100 p10, the installation does not have the R on it my hfo sent me the R programs but they do not have the little HRT100 in there. so there is no reversing program maybe when they built this one the hooked a couple wires up back wards who knows at least i have a work around now and they are also checking into it more now but at least i can run the parts this week like i wanted.

thanks for the help guys.

i double checked and it writes correctly at 0 and 180

Unrelated but what chuck do you have on that rotary?