I am beginning to attempt to program off a cad model. I have a sample part, every time I press cad=part my alignment moves off my cad model. I am actually trying to program off of cad on a part I have a sample for before I make a program off a part that I have no sample for.
Nope, no shift, no change, tri-thingie still in the same place. ALL IT DOES is 'reassigns' the axis inside the controller to new 'values', X will be Y, Z will be X, Y will be Z, or however you set it up. IF you move the jogbox in X (before you make an alignment) and you have the machine X axis equal to the Y CAD axis, you will see the numbers in Y change instead of the numbers in X on the probe position readout.
ahhh. do you ever get a tad confused from part to part?
i like translating because it makes the cad axis match the machine axis every time with every part.
Nope, no shift, no change, tri-thingie still in the same place. ALL IT DOES is 'reassigns' the axis inside the controller to new 'values', X will be Y, Z will be X, Y will be Z, or however you set it up. IF you move the jogbox in X (before you make an alignment) and you have the machine X axis equal to the Y CAD axis, you will see the numbers in Y change instead of the numbers in X on the probe position readout.
ahhh. do you ever get a tad confused from part to part?
i like translating because it makes the cad axis match the machine axis every time with every part.
