to answer question no.1 If you would like to drill at 2 inch in dia. you will have to program 1 inch up from center . you have to forget that your on a lathe. and start thinking radius moves from center (X0) out. the same holds true for milling if your milling a 1/2" square you would program X 1/4 in the plus direction and X - 1/4 on the other side. Same is true for C axis.
to answer question no. 2 define it the same as XY_plane but reverse the Z direction. I hope this helps Dave Wolfgang H&R Ind. Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilson, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'SmartCAM users group'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: [mfg-smartcam] code generator question > Hey gang, > I'm playing around with programming a Mori Seiki sl200 SMC with spindle, > sub spindle, -C- axis and live tooling. > Two questions... > > 1. whenever I try to 'face drill' in the sub spindle or main spindle, the > screen display looks fine but the -x- value is doubled in the outputted > code. Turning cuts output fine but if I program a face drill at ,say 2in. in > x, it will be outputted as X4.0 > > 2. How should I define the plane to do face drilling on the sub spindle, I'm > kind of lost when it comes to setting up thing > for the proper orientation on the sub spindle. > > Thanks > > > Andrew Wilson > CNC Programmer/Systems Admin > > > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ====================================================================== > ====================================================================== To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================
