Dear Mr.Pete Zsiros, We have been using Mitsubishi FX20K, a 4-axes wire edm machine for couple of years We do use "Camand Machinist & Multax" for generating cnc programs for the same
Here`s the brief description of "Z Levels" Z1 = Fixture Height Z2 = Mean Height between Z1 & Z5 Z5 = Z1 + Work Piece Thickness In our machine we always enable "ARBITRARY-UD-SWITCH" for absolute mode 4-axes programming Please do view the attatched ms-word document for clear idea Hope this info will be helpful Best Regards Raghav Kobashi, India Pete Zsiros wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pete Zsiros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "smartcam users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 8:58 AM > Subject: 4 Axis on a CX 20. > > Gentlemen, > > I wrote a simple 4 axis program for a Mitsubish CX 20 wire machine. I > never ran a 4 axis program on it, and I can't figure out where to put in the > z > levels of the primary and the secondary planes. Are they incremental from > each other? On the Charmilles it is the W and R plane, they are both in > the program and the W is the XY plane, R iz the UV plane and W is absolute > from table level (I guess it would be the same number in incremental), R is > incremental from W. > Thanks for your help. > By the way: as a UG user on a daily basis, I can honestly tell you that > SmartCam is still unparalleled when it comes to 4 Axis work. > Long live SmartCam! > Pete Zsiros > ====================================================================== > To find out more about this mailing list including how to unsubscribe, > send the message "info mfg-smartcam" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ======================================================================
Mits-Z-Levels.doc
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