How can I create work offsets or work stations?

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How can I create work offsets or work stations?

Post by guerra_cues »

Howdy,

How can I create offsets? Is WCS the equivalent in Centroid language to offsets in Mach3? Any direction to find in any pdf or video would be appreciated. I would like to have different stations in my CNC - my mill turning axis and a second one for my A rotary axis.
I have 2 stations in my CNC - one to turn wood round and taper pool cue shafts and the other one is a rotary that I use for engraving and creating pockets for inlays.
I do have a second CNC that does a lot of the turning but does not have an Acorn board.
The work offsets in Mach 3 it is used to memorize positions of the CNC table and recall them quickly.
How can that be done with Acorn CNC Controller software?
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Re: How can I create work offsets or work stations?

Post by tblough »

Section 4.3 in the mill user's manual details the setup of Work Coordinate Systems.
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Re: How can I create work offsets or work stations?

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Virtually the same as Mach does it. G54,55,56,57,58.... 18 of them.

Setup >> Part >> WCS Table >> Origin
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Re: How can I create work offsets or work stations?

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Gary Campbell wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 2:00 pm Virtually the same as Mach does it. G54,55,56,57,58.... 18 of them.

Setup >> Part >> WCS Table >> Origin
Hi Gary,

So, once you get to the area you want to setup how do you zero it? Or do you have to type the coordinates? Sorry I am bit confused how to go about getting it done.
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Re: How can I create work offsets or work stations?

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tblough wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:35 pm Section 4.3 in the mill user's manual details the setup of Work Coordinate Systems.
Thanks Tom. I’m going through it now.
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Re: How can I create work offsets or work stations?

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Alt 1 (G54), Alt 2 (G55), Alt 3 (G56) and so on. G54, leave as machine home, drive it to your desired location and hit Alt 2 (G55) and then use the VCP button to set XY and set Z zero (if desired). From there on, that is where G55 will be. If you have a pendant, you can also use that set zero for each axis with the dial and button.

If you need to tweak the location values, you can go to "Setup >> Part >> WCS Table >> Origin" and edit/save all offsets.
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Re: How can I create work offsets or work stations?

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Sword wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 3:12 pm Alt 1 (G54), Alt 2 (G55), Alt 3 (G56) and so on. G54, leave as machine home, drive it to your desired location and hit Alt 2 (G55) and then use the VCP button to set XY and set Z zero (if desired). From there on, that is where G55 will be. If you have a pendant, you can also use that set zero for each axis with the dial and button.

If you need to tweak the location values, you can go to "Setup >> Part >> WCS Table >> Origin" and edit/save all offsets.
Dumb question... How do I make it move to G55, G56, etc? I tried in MDI just typing G55 and Cycle Start and didn't work...
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Re: How can I create work offsets or work stations?

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G55. > Cycle start
GoTo WCS XY0 >> cycle start
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Re: How can I create work offsets or work stations?

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Gary Campbell wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 12:54 am G55. > Cycle start
GoTo WCS XY0 >> cycle start
Hello Gary,

I am not sure if I did something wrong but it didn't work.
Went to MDI:
Typed G55 then hit cycle start
In MDI again typed GoTo WCS XY0 then hit cycle start and got the Missing parameter error.

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Re: How can I create work offsets or work stations?

Post by tblough »

"GOTO WCS" means select the WCS you want by hitting alt-1 for WCS #1, alt-2 for WCS #2, etc., and then MDI "X0Y0" and hit cycle start.

Neither of these methods (nor MDI) will work until the machine is homed.
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