my soft jaws are 1.250 wide I always leave a .500 tab.
I down loaded the dfx files from kurt for the vises I got and put them on my cad system alone with the table slots and pretty much everything.
the upper left corner of my softjaws are 0,0 om each vise.
it took me a year of running parts on that one machine to figure out how I wanted to set it up to be efficient. ( at least for my jobs)
I can pretty much set up any job off the street( the ones I get) in a matter of seconds by just changing the "E" hieght offset. I set it up that way incase something ever happened to me my, wife or daughters could run the machines. my 8 year old is pretty good with it. she has to use a chair to set offsets though LOL. I was thinking of getting her that movable control to make it easier. she uploads programs to the fadal ( saves me from walking LOL)
All the programs have the "E" height amount that should be set before running followed by a "did you set the thickness of the material using the df command" ,msg. with one M00 on that line.
I wish I got a extended z this time around, my next fadal will be a 50 or 60inch one. I like to have the machine run lights out when I for for the day.also want to run 5axis again thats fun.
bottom line is everyone has there own way of setting up a machine, what ever works so they dont make mistakes.  |