Do I need to physically perform an alignment before programming the rest of the moves? I assume not but I cant figure out how to get around this.
What I've done is programmed all of the features. First a cylinder and plane (for alignment) in manual mode, and the rest of the features dcc mode. When I hit execute I first manually measure the cylinder and plane, then dcc takes over and tries hitting off in space. It seems like its using the pre-programmed coordinates for hits rather than adjusting the dcc hits based on the alignment.
You need two alignments. A manual alignment and DCC alignment. The simplest way to do that is create the manual alignment and just use the same exact alignment for DCC. Then you can program your features.
You need two alignments. A manual alignment and DCC alignment. The simplest way to do that is create the manual alignment and just use the same exact alignment for DCC. Then you can program your features.