Offset quiz

[Dave1]

So,
How many work offsets are in the control, let's say in the Cent 5, 6, and 7???

mholden and jpawlek need not answer cause they already know.

Dave

[chipsinpan]

The short answer is 6 work locations , but the trick answer is 99 .

[Dave1]

No, not talking trick answers and not height offsets, just work coord or "fixture" offsets.
Play again.
Dave

Originally Posted by chipsinpan The short answer is 6 work locations , but the trick answer is 99 .

[tsutt]

18, Todd

[Dave1]

Originally Posted by tsutt 18, Todd

Bzzzt, try again.
Dave

[chipsinpan]

g54 g55 g56 g57 g58 g59 thats 6 right ?

[Dave1]

Your close but not close enough. We'll wait a while yet and I'll reveal the answer.

Dave

[single phase]

It is 6 X 9 I think, my machine is not on right now. You can cycle through 9 or 10 sets of the six G5X workstations.


What do I win? What do I win?

[Dave1]

SF,
Ding ding ding, we have a winner. The control contains subsets of the G54-59 workshifts. To call them you'd enter them as g541, g542 etc, etc. To get back to the original work shift simply enter G540. Also, if you were to use a G92 shift you could essentially double the number of offsets and have a really insane number of them. (6x9)x2

Dave

[Dave1]

Originally Posted by single phase It is 6 X 9 I think, my machine is not on right now. You can cycle through 9 or 10 sets of the six G5X workstations. What do I win? What do I win?

You won 1 reputation point

Dave

[chipsinpan]

That is a cool thing to know . But now my question is , how do you program a G541 in conversational ? I am used to the Misc / toggle F3 to/ work 1 , 2, etc method .
BTW thanks for the info on the tool setting function . It really is easier to do that way .
As my programmer friend said " you will see my lips move , and hear a bunch of words , and then after I leave , you will forget most of it anyway . So better to just learn it yourself "

[Dave1]

Not exactly sure to tell you the truth, I g-code everything, or CAM it, I'm mostly self taught ya know. I'll take a peek in the book and see what it has to say about that. You could MDI it in if need be I suppose.
Dave