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manual to Auto mode. - Martys50 - 02-26-2015
Hi everyone. The machine I'm using is an old Sheffield RM-50, and it has a lot of problems the controller keep shutting off while running manually or in a program. I started this job only Tuesday last week. The co. That sold the machine has been called 2 times already, the last time he was here was this Tuesday and mentioned that one of the servos might be going bad. Sure enough I noticed the problem is in X Axis, even when I try to home the machine after it reaches its max Z axis it moves in -x direction and then in -y. That is the home position of this machine. The controller keeps shutting off only when its traveling towards the - x. The tech had slowed the machine down to 5 MPS. I slowed it down to 1MPS (TRAVEL SPEED).it would still shut off. So guys I'm telling you all this to have an Idea what kind of hardware I'm dealing with. On top of this I'm new to this software and have an older version of virtual Dmis 5.0. Anyhow getting around all the hardware problems I was able to finish a program yesterday with help from you guys. The whole Program. Is in YZ plane, cause the primary datum is on one side and most of the features with positional, runouts, parallelism etc. Callouts are on the other. I kept testing the programs as I went along, and everything seemed to work fine, also learned that you cannot define start and end angle for the circles in this version of the software. To get around it you have to use arc, and when you do the auto arc you can increase the number of points and that's how it starts and ends at the same points. Now my problem started when I started to run the Program, From the begging after saving it. Instead of allowing me to take the manual plane and the 2 circles which I used to establish my initial part Co-Ordinate system, it went straight to DCC Mode and tried to look for the plane, obviously it didn't know where the part was staged, So i had to push the E-Stop. I thought it should be simple just edit the program to stay in manual mode until the part coordinate system is set and then turn the DCC back on to run the rest of the program. I found the MODE in the initial settings and changed it to MAN, but having trouble inserting another MODE which will turn the DCC back on. The first part worked and I can now probe manual plane and circles but the 2nd MODE command that I somehow inserted within the program. To go into Auto is giving me all kinds of error messages. If I delete it I have to measure everything manually. I'm so frustrated that I am about to start pulling my hair. Someone please help me resolve this issue, and as I'm already very greatful to you guys for answering my posts, I will really start seeing the benefits of this forum, and then can ask my manager to upgrade the software and get the damn machine fixed once and forever. I know I
Will Have to work with a very low speed machine because they have already told us that its an old machine and you can't run it even at 50% of the max speed.
T.I.A
Pls. Help
manual to Auto mode. - jr6300 - 02-26-2015
Not quite sure waht you are asking here.
You can also set up an "Auto-Start" program by placing the probe in a hole in the part. Create a point by clicking the check mark in upper RH corner of the Point Measure window "Finish Measurement" icon (I name my point "Start Pt", but you can name it anything). Set you a temp coord to that pt. by translating X,Y & Z to this point, then create a temp plane about that pt. Level into that plane for another temp coord (you can cheat using 1,2,3 using the temp plane as your Z origin, leaving the next window set to "None" for offset, direction or "2" using the start point in the other 2 windows set as X, Y origin.
Then measure an edge of the part & rotate your coord into that line for a 3rd temp coord. You could have it measure the hole 1st or after the temp align setting another temp coord, then the CMM "pretty well knows" where the part is.
Finish off your coordinate by taking your plane, then another feature such as another hole in the part. Bestfit a line between the 2 holes & then set your final part coordinate or PCS for the program run.
manual to Auto mode. - Martys50 - 02-26-2015
jr6300 Wrote:Not quite sure waht you are asking here.
You can also set up an "Auto-Start" program by placing the probe in a hole in the part. Create a point by clicking the check mark in upper RH corner of the Point Measure window "Finish Measurement" icon (I name my point "Start Pt", but you can name it anything). Set you a temp coord to that pt. by translating X,Y & Z to this point, then create a temp plane about that pt. Level into that plane for another temp coord (you can cheat using 1,2,3 using the temp plane as your Z origin, leaving the next window set to "None" for offset, direction or "2" using the start point in the other 2 windows set as X, Y origin.
Then measure an edge of the part & rotate your coord into that line for a 3rd temp coord. You could have it measure the hole 1st or after the temp align setting another temp coord, then the CMM "pretty well knows" where the part is.
Finish off your coordinate by taking your plane, then another feature such as another hole in the part. Bestfit a line between the 2 holes & then set your final part coordinate or PCS for the program run.
what I'm asking is how to fix my existing prog. I need to change the first three feature that were in auto prog. mode to manual ( which I already fixed by changing the Mode line to MANUAL. After my Coordinate system is set I need to turn the Auto measure on so the rest of the features are measured automatically.
T. I. A
Marty
manual to Auto mode. - jr6300 - 02-26-2015
I would make an Op. Promt mentioning that it was going back into Auto Mode & then record the command or manually add:
MODE/AUTO, PROG, MAN