Newbie Haas OL-1 User (CNC Lathe)

[Jorge-D-Fuentes]

This company is very... *ahem*... thrifty.

They want to do everything in-house with the current staff, rather than hiring a professional, or even a professional Consultant to train/help for a time.
I'm not even the main programmer for it.

Don't even get me started on who they're going to hire to 'press the button' every minute or so (they're thinking they'll hire someone for the sole purpose of pressing the button, and having other in-house people do the programming for it).

And yeah, that ended up sounding somewhat unkind.

I don't work with CNC normally. I'm a LASER operator here. It's a lot easier to work with LASER since it doesn't have a tool width or any compensations. I'm not completely oblivious to machines, but you are correct in that I'm not a machinist.

[PBMW]

I was making no incinuations about you nor was I trying to be unkind. My appologies if I did...My point is, someone that is not familiar with a machine can muddle about a bit without getting much done. It may be more cost effective to have a real machinist...that's all...

[Jorge-D-Fuentes]

Understood.
Well, the code seems to work, but I'm having a feeling that the tools are not aligned properly and/or the specs for the tools I was given are incorrect.

I went to the sandvik website and downloaded the CAD of their tools, and it appears that the Tool Nose Radius is different there than the printout I had received last week.

That would definitely affect the final product, and might likely be the reason the ring is not coming out exactly correct (although it is pretty close right now).

I'm getting a burr on one side and a fallen radius as well. Probably the part-off tool and the Top Trim tool are misaligned in the geometry. That, or the spec're incorrect. I'll make a G-code that takes into account the specs I found...