we have a 97 fadal 4020 it does not have a 4th axis card(a axis) is there a way to index a haas rotery table in the program and not manualy through the haas control,

thanks john

John--
In order to index the rotary from within your program without using the external control box, it will require an axis controller card in slot 13 of the card cage and an Amplifier for the rotary axis with releated cabling. Then you can effect an index using "A" commands inside your G code program.

Neal

If your Haas rotary has a trigger input to tell it to rotate, you could trigger it with a signal from 1 of Fadals relay outputs (M62?).
Your rotary would need it's own PLC to do this though.

darebee
where would i find this relay output on the fadal as i do have the control box for the rotery and at this time we just index it by pushing a button on that box.
the control box does have an input and i read that i could due as you say ,

thansk john

Check your manuals (they are available on line).
I don't have time to look uo right now.
M60, 61, 62?

if the haas control box works, you can connect it to the fadal with RS232 and 4 wires onto one of the backplane connectors.

your fadal program can send commands to the haas box "SPRINT" and then you have to trigger a relay in the fadal (Msixtysomething?) to get the rotary table to move. Not just index, you can tell it ro go 45.5 deg at F35.1 then to 82deg @ F90. or whatever.

When the haas finishes it;s one commanded move (just one at a time) it will close a relay in the control box, and the fadal sees that relay has closed so it will continue with the program.

should be pretty well covered in the manual on the haas indexer, or you can be sneaky and read about it in the hardinge indexer manual... :cheers:

all you guys are awsome ,thank you for your input.this saves quite a bit of time

john