Dual Head For Mastercam X5 Post

[harrisonn444]

I have a dual head machine that uses x and z for the left head and u and w for the right head. I cannot figure out how to get my mastercam post to display both the x and u at the same time. If anyone can help me get in the right direction, please do.

[txcncman]

Are you wanting the heads to run synchronously? Is there a way to assign G54 to the X and G55 to the U? I did some programming for a Fagor control with X and U for the tables. I did not run both tables at the same time though. There was an M-code that automatically read X's and applied them to the U axis. Oh, and there also was an M-code to link the tables together to operate as one.

[harrisonn444]

There is supposedly a L13 code that will lock the x axis and u axis together. But I haven't tried it yet. The machine is tied up for a few days.

[harrisonn444]

I had to use a L11 XYZZX code in my program to lock the two heads together. Of course, I also had to include a zero reset with my head spacing set to keep the heads from crashing into each other.