I've done that. I had a workpiece that had three non-colinear tooling balls which were accessible in both positions. I used my actuals from the balls in the first position as my nominals for the second position. At the beginning of the 2nd position inspection, I found it helpful to level or rotate to a generic line whose K nominal was 1 and K actual was -1. Been a few years since I did that, and there are probably better or easier ways to do it, what with all the smart guys on here. But my point is it is do-able.
I'm not sure if you mean mirroring a part which yes you can do ethier with using the paste and pattern functions or also you can mirror whole programs. Or if you actually mean have a break in the program to physically flip the part and start exacuting on the other side. I'm guessing if you wanted to do that you would need some sort of fixturing. You could just add a comment in your program at the point you would want to flip. COMMENT/OPER,NO,FLIP PART NOW Then enter ok when ready to continue on your exacution
Thank you for your help, I flipped the part 180 and added a comment in the program for the operator/comment. I had help with this as well and it turned out good. I still have lots to learn for sure thank you
We flip parts on a daily basis and we do that one of two ways.... Either by using tooling balls that are glued to the part or by using the "equate alignment" using a series of "nest points".
In my case, I study 'flipping' everyday, since the way things are going in my company, it will soon be burgers i'm flipping, not parts..... and i'll have the inside track to be 'grillmaster'. (am also rolling up the sleeves to learn pickles layout/cheese GD&T at night to pad the resume)
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