Shake up at OneCNC?

[Ken_Shea]

Not sure what is going on exactly but I believe some what of a bit of downsizing going on with OnCNE, Talked to Craig today (he was the fellow from which I purchased my OneCNCXP, his office was out of Detroit, as I understand it the Detroit office is now shut down. Both Craig and Rob were let go. The dismissal was quite sudden. Job security is pretty much a thing of the past unfortunately. Of course they may take the easy road of self employment, where every day is fun and filled with song and dance and never any worries, no bosses to ignore and take advantage of you, That is of course unless you want to count everyone that call on the phone or walks through the door, and you enjoy working 60 or more hours a week for peanuts. My favorite four words are “Is it done ……… YET!” On the serious side Craig and Rob seemed like very dependable guys and I am sure this may be just an opportunity for them.

[CNCadmin]

Sorry to hear that.

[OneCNC]

It is certainly not a contraction, but a service oriented decision.

It is OneCNC's aim to provide our customers with the highest level of service possible, before and after they become a customer. It is felt that individuals with the broadest knowledge of surface and solids CAD/CAM and 3D machining are the ideal and are currently being chosen from a broad recruitment base.

Interested individuals are welcome to contact our office: (877) 626-1262.


Michael Reyes
OneCNC LLC
Tel (877) 626-1262
Fax (727) 446-0042
www.onecnc.com

[cncman]

I tell you what, these few guy's on here talking and sharing what they have learned using Onecnc sure has lead me in the direction to buy it. Because of this great forum I have learned so much about your product. I'm glad to see you come here to help out to and lend support too.

[SRT]

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[HuFlungDung]

SRT, does your

DITTO

mean you also Love cnc machining? We just have to know!

[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!

[HuFlungDung]

SRT, can you elaborate a bit more? Are you wanting actual 4th axis conversions?

I haven't seen the 4th axis wrap module option that is described in the writeup here, but you can always ask them about it:

http://onecnc.com/products_mill_prof.htm

[wms]

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.

[SRT]

Hu & WMS,
Simple indexing will be all that I will be doing at this time. I asked sales about the improvement on the wrap method as now being used by their Mill Pro 2000, and I believe they said that will be upgraded after they finish Lathe improvements they are now working on. Yes I believe they are moving forward much better than my previous experience has been with my other software provider. One of the questions that I will be addressing is the rotation process of the model, at the present time, I use different Z offset values (per Haas tech support advice) on all 4 sides because of non symetrical features about the centerline of the rotary C/L. That way I can make individual adjustments easily. I am trying to determine the best way to inprove on this "if possible" to establish Z zero on the 4 different sides using a model which may need to be altered slightly for different parts.

[HuFlungDung]

SRT, if you have enough work offsets (Starting at G54 perhaps?) available, I think that would be the best way to do your Z offsets for each of the sides (I suppose there could be more than 4 sides). This way, you do not have to fool with tool offsets, set 'em and forget 'em

[wms]

SRT,
The way I do the z offsets,(and this is not to say it's the only way or even the proper way), Is to use a know feature on the Rotary table or the fixture, and incorperate that feature into my drawing. Then if that fixure is used for more than one part or if the part is a "family" of parts then I have something to tie every thing to.
If you use the centerline of the table, in Y, and some feature say the fixture face or even the face of the table platter, for X. Then you could use the centerline of the table in Z. Then you create your model at a known location, in relation to those above.

I don't quite understand why you want to use different Z offsets for each side , but I don't have your part in my hand.

You do know that on a Haas control you can change your Z offset with G10 inside the program? This is handy to "tweek" in only one part of the program.

All the features on your part WILL rotate around the centerline of your table. So if you use that as your c/l of your model then you will always be "in sync".

As always if I am missing something "SET" me staight, if your think you can.