Hello all I am very excited to be on the new forum! My question is we do a lot of prototype 1 off parts. When you program a bearing journal let’s say and want to stop the machine to do inspection so that you can adjust wear comps to hit your number before the final pass how do you guys program it? Right now I just hand code it into the program … I am guessing there is an easyer way. Miyano jnc60 with Fanuc control.
Thank you for the imput!
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Hello and welcome… Im not too experienced on the lathe but could you just add a M01 optional stop to the program? That can be done right in the post settings.
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Hi, always nice to be on a shiny new forum, even better when you zoom out and are floating through space with a load of parts lol. I would duplicate the finishing pass by right clicking it, and on the first one leave a finishing allowance, axial or radial and whatever you want the final pass to be. You can put an M0 machine stop between the 2 for measuring, after post processing. Try to make sure that the first finishing pass takes off half the roughing finishing allowance so the 2 cuts are even if that makes sense, don’t want any push off error
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In the beginning Fusion was very difficult for me, the key is learning how you can manipulate it to do what you need it to do. I have over 20 yrs programming with Geopath but it is way more limited than fusion. Also remember Auto desk is working on Fusion all the time when updates are released they try to fix many bugs and complaints sometimes the fix creates it’s own bugs. Overall I love Fusion I need to get going on the mill portion and get up to speed on that soon as well.
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Billy yes currently we just add a spindle off send home coolant off then inspection notes to the man readable in the program then restart every thing… by hand in the g code editor
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Some CAM software has a feature where you can “force the tool change”. It provides the m01 and returns to the machine’s tool change position before doing the next operation.
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Not certain about Fusion, but in Inventor you can add Manual NC instructions to your setup. What I have done is create a series of these Manual NC instructions and saved them as a template. Then when I want to perform an inspection and compensation, I insert that template into the setup in the desired location. When I post process, the manual NC code from the template is outputted where I want it and I do not have to hand edit the code. The other benefit is the “Manual NC code” is the same every time, so I do not have to remember it for the next part or operation.
Randy
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