02-26-2015, 08:04 AM
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
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