Rotary Tube Questions
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:43 am
I’m making dry runs on square tubing and pipe with a felt marker. A number of issues come up for me and any help would be appreciated!!
1. The Z axis always goes up - mach 3 runs through the tool path but I’m finding the z-axis is always going up at the pierce point and I’m not sure if this is a thc feature that needs disabling, or touch off feature that needs to be disabled? For now I would like to keep Z at the zeroed point in mach 3 throughout the entire tool path. Is there a way to do that? Or should I just install a floating head?
2. Mach 3 will always zero at the 0,0 area of the drawing, which means it will always go to the middle of the pipe/tube. Is there a way to zeroing mach 3 so that the starting end of the pipe will be displayed at 0,0?
3. The Mach 3 tool path display always looks distorted. For example a square tube will look like a pipe. Or the letters on a pipe don’t exactly match up to what is drawn on cad. This is mostly a minor issue since the tool path seems to be okay. Is there a way to have mach 3 display an image that reflects a work piece?
Thanks!
Paul
1. The Z axis always goes up - mach 3 runs through the tool path but I’m finding the z-axis is always going up at the pierce point and I’m not sure if this is a thc feature that needs disabling, or touch off feature that needs to be disabled? For now I would like to keep Z at the zeroed point in mach 3 throughout the entire tool path. Is there a way to do that? Or should I just install a floating head?
2. Mach 3 will always zero at the 0,0 area of the drawing, which means it will always go to the middle of the pipe/tube. Is there a way to zeroing mach 3 so that the starting end of the pipe will be displayed at 0,0?
3. The Mach 3 tool path display always looks distorted. For example a square tube will look like a pipe. Or the letters on a pipe don’t exactly match up to what is drawn on cad. This is mostly a minor issue since the tool path seems to be okay. Is there a way to have mach 3 display an image that reflects a work piece?
Thanks!
Paul