Have Monarch mill with Fanuc 16-m. While flowline 3d surfacing - most of the motion is in x z axis there are very small moves (+/- .0001 in y axis) within the program. The machine is overshooting these minute y moves leaving dings in the surface finish. looks really bad. The old machine has axis scales. The back lash parameter for y axis is set at 5 whatever that translates to not sure but seems really low for age.
any one know what's going on?
Overshoot was happening in area where the ball screw should have the most wear.
We set 1851 Y parameter to zero and now no more overshoot nor undershoot.
I am wondering why have backlash parameters at all if machine has scales?
Why were they set in the first place?
puzzled...