Originally posted by SRT
I guess I better "try" to be more exact in the future.
The DITTO does "NOT" include the "I love cnc machining" part in the previous post. I'm going with Onecnc, I hope it can also help me with indexing parts around on a rotary (SRT=servo rotary table), but I haven't heard you or wms, or cruncher, or anyone, mention your familiarity with onecnc helping in solids with this, but I figure it has to be better than what I have (V18), & cheaper than what I can't afford (MC9), can anyone donate any info on this. Thanks! |
SRT,
Glad your making the jump to OneCNC. I truly believe you will be very happy.
I don't do alot of 4 axis stuff other than just plain indexing. I take it from your post that is what you are interested in doing also.
The way I would approach a 4 axis part would be to "model" the part with the center line of the part at the center line of my rotary table, then index the part, (ie: rotate the model and table) to my first position and perform the nessasary tool operations. Then index my part, (again rotate the model and maybe some custom nc code to rotate the rotary table) and do my next operations. And so on and so forth (always wanted to say that).
It's really is not nessasary with a soild model to convert any of the code to 4 axis if all you are doing is indexing the table to work different sides of the part. All you need to do in "index your cad model and then preform your tool operations, reindex your model and do side 2, ect....
If you have a specific problem or question, let'er rip! and someone here will surely help you out. Remember We like new challenges.
Mill Pro 2000 has 4 axis conversion as an option.
This allows you to convert 3 axis code to "wrap" around a 4th axis. Lettering and regular code can be converted.
And I'm told that there will be an 4 axis conversion option for XP series at some point. Although at this time I'm not sure what exactly the 4 axis stuff will be for XP. It may be more powerful than the 2000 series stuff, but I'm only guessing at this point. The guys at OneCNC are always making things better, so my guess is that the new 4 axis stuff for XP series will also be miles ahead of previous stuff.