Hi Guy's,
I have ditch my crappy Chinese bench top mill and bought an old VF-0. After a month sorting out electrical issues its now running :-)
The control has some 1999 (8.8) vintage software with the quaint old CRT display. I have loaded tools and attached a vice and an making so initial attempts to program it.
I have followed the manual and am making a fixture plate with about 50 odd holes.
I have followed the setup procedure in the manual and touched off all the tools using tool hight and next tool buttons to the top of the stock.
I then set G54 origin to the top left of the stock. Then I uploaded the G code from Solidworks / CAM Works with the free 3 Axis Hawk Ridge Haas Post processor.
Pushed the 5% Rapids and cycle start.
Managed to go through 4 lines of Code and spat the dummy when it got to the G43 H3 Z10. Z Axis travel out of range.
Looking in the Haas manual this code is what's suggested.
If I add in some basic code via MDI to drill a couple of holes and don't apply the tool height offset with G43 the tool offsets seem finer and I managed to drill 4 holes using the G83 canned cycle no problems.
Anybody know what Im doing wrong?
I have ditch my crappy Chinese bench top mill and bought an old VF-0. After a month sorting out electrical issues its now running :-)
The control has some 1999 (8.8) vintage software with the quaint old CRT display. I have loaded tools and attached a vice and an making so initial attempts to program it.
I have followed the manual and am making a fixture plate with about 50 odd holes.
I have followed the setup procedure in the manual and touched off all the tools using tool hight and next tool buttons to the top of the stock.
I then set G54 origin to the top left of the stock. Then I uploaded the G code from Solidworks / CAM Works with the free 3 Axis Hawk Ridge Haas Post processor.
Pushed the 5% Rapids and cycle start.
Managed to go through 4 lines of Code and spat the dummy when it got to the G43 H3 Z10. Z Axis travel out of range.
Looking in the Haas manual this code is what's suggested.
If I add in some basic code via MDI to drill a couple of holes and don't apply the tool height offset with G43 the tool offsets seem finer and I managed to drill 4 holes using the G83 canned cycle no problems.
Anybody know what Im doing wrong?