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I am completely lost.

Ron L
My company recently purchased an OPTI 321 running 2018 software. We do not have a touch probe on our machine. It is being used in vision only.

I am not a QC inspector and I've only ever programmed a machine using M codes.

I was sent to the 3 day class and then had 8 more hours of instruction here on our machine. I'm still completely lost.

I have been working on this machine for weeks and have yet to make a program that runs.

I bought the training manual that came with the labs when I took the course but the icons in the manual do not match my machine.

Is there an online tutorital or video that I could watch to walk me through the basics? I need something geared at a user who has NEVER used anything like this before.

Thank you!
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  • Thanks for the responses guys.

    Most of our parts are flat plates with holes drilled in them. They SHOULD be very easy parts to program.

    What I did was create a program with my trainer. We ran it and everything worked fine.

    I took the program that I knew worked and tried to manually edit it make a new program. Since all my parts are measured off the same corner with the same alignment I thought I could just edit the numbers and have a new alignment for my new part. This did not work.

    Also I am using a vision only machine. Is it realistic to think that I can write an entire working program just using a DXF file and not an actual part?

    Thanks!

    If the parts you are measuring have the same manual and DCC alignments, and all you are doing in modifying the feature after the alignment, then yes, it should work. However, if you are messing with alignments, then that is where things can get tricky.

    With vision, you can program off a DXF, however, you still have to tell the machine where the part is on my plate. This requires a manual alignment.

    Maybe post some code?
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  • Thanks for the responses guys.

    Most of our parts are flat plates with holes drilled in them. They SHOULD be very easy parts to program.

    What I did was create a program with my trainer. We ran it and everything worked fine.

    I took the program that I knew worked and tried to manually edit it make a new program. Since all my parts are measured off the same corner with the same alignment I thought I could just edit the numbers and have a new alignment for my new part. This did not work.

    Also I am using a vision only machine. Is it realistic to think that I can write an entire working program just using a DXF file and not an actual part?

    Thanks!

    If the parts you are measuring have the same manual and DCC alignments, and all you are doing in modifying the feature after the alignment, then yes, it should work. However, if you are messing with alignments, then that is where things can get tricky.

    With vision, you can program off a DXF, however, you still have to tell the machine where the part is on my plate. This requires a manual alignment.

    Maybe post some code?
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