Alignment Help

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.

Parents

louisd over 1 year ago

Program in "manual mode" (CTL+ Ff4 key), virtually, by clicking your initial align features on the cad.
create an alignment, and align to those virtually created features. level, rotate, translate as bfire85 mentioned.
then run that routine. and physically take the manual hits
from that point forward your CAD will match the physical location of the part on the machine.

If you probe the part manually, you might be able to get away with doing a CAD=Part align (save a backup copy of your routine first).
--I've avoided that button like the plague as it never worked right for me. Maybe it works better now.
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel

Reply

louisd over 1 year ago

Program in "manual mode" (CTL+ Ff4 key), virtually, by clicking your initial align features on the cad.
create an alignment, and align to those virtually created features. level, rotate, translate as bfire85 mentioned.
then run that routine. and physically take the manual hits
from that point forward your CAD will match the physical location of the part on the machine.

If you probe the part manually, you might be able to get away with doing a CAD=Part align (save a backup copy of your routine first).
--I've avoided that button like the plague as it never worked right for me. Maybe it works better now.
Cancel
Vote Up 0 Vote Down

Sign in to reply

Cancel

Children

No Data