I hired a new guy and he insists upon doing one DCC alignment and never doing another alignment, he lets the feature control frame control the alignment for him. I don't think that is a good practice, does anyone have an opinion on this?
We machine extrusions. Most of the time, the base material has more tolerance than the machined features. I look at as a little finesse is needed sometimes. How about a milled pocket that is super shallow and the base material is allowed to more more than the depth tol ? I would check the depth, 0.0 on the bottom of the feature and then move my probe "away" from the surface to check the width/length. I will never stall out and rub the bottom of the feature when checking the width. I can come up with hundreds of examples like this. Do I have program with 1 manual and 1 DCC align ? Of course. I also have programs with 75 alignments or more that may be 45+ minutes long.
We machine extrusions. Most of the time, the base material has more tolerance than the machined features. I look at as a little finesse is needed sometimes. How about a milled pocket that is super shallow and the base material is allowed to more more than the depth tol ? I would check the depth, 0.0 on the bottom of the feature and then move my probe "away" from the surface to check the width/length. I will never stall out and rub the bottom of the feature when checking the width. I can come up with hundreds of examples like this. Do I have program with 1 manual and 1 DCC align ? Of course. I also have programs with 75 alignments or more that may be 45+ minutes long.
