Fully Defined
Aluminum
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2013
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
I am personally fairly new to Haas. I last encountered one at machine tech school in 2015.
At my new job we have a UMC-750, and do a lot of SS extrusion dies for food. Despite having a Renishaw probe, the guys have been manually setting up OP2 with gage pins, a parallel and a DTI, after decking down the clamping material from OP1 and revealing the through-holes.
I have to imagine that there must be a way to probe a pair of holes from the flange and get either a G68 rotation or a C-axis G54 coordinate value. My instinct is to program this into the cycle, but I'm not against using macros in the menus.
With a UMC-750, how would you do this? For reference, it's usually a 150-200mm-ish x 25mm-ish disc of 316, saw cut, on a 5th Axis brand self-centering vise or a three-jaw on a pallet. Sometimes it's in a Kurt DX-6 (with soft jaws) on a pallet, but I'm not in love with that setup for a bunch of reasons.
I'd also like to be able to probe the top of the jaws to check that they all have the same Z offset, before I even start OP1. Is there a way to rotate B and C to level out automatically, using just a probing routine?
At my new job we have a UMC-750, and do a lot of SS extrusion dies for food. Despite having a Renishaw probe, the guys have been manually setting up OP2 with gage pins, a parallel and a DTI, after decking down the clamping material from OP1 and revealing the through-holes.
I have to imagine that there must be a way to probe a pair of holes from the flange and get either a G68 rotation or a C-axis G54 coordinate value. My instinct is to program this into the cycle, but I'm not against using macros in the menus.
With a UMC-750, how would you do this? For reference, it's usually a 150-200mm-ish x 25mm-ish disc of 316, saw cut, on a 5th Axis brand self-centering vise or a three-jaw on a pallet. Sometimes it's in a Kurt DX-6 (with soft jaws) on a pallet, but I'm not in love with that setup for a bunch of reasons.
I'd also like to be able to probe the top of the jaws to check that they all have the same Z offset, before I even start OP1. Is there a way to rotate B and C to level out automatically, using just a probing routine?