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Tool numbers in machine VS master tool list numbers.
Hmm, good question. At first sight I don't see that this is possible from g-code? It can be done via external interaction over the ethernet interface though (ie as part of loading the program)- hi-fly-cnc
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Brother Speedio Purchase Questions
Re the tool break thing and Z-Nano speeds. Rebuilding the Blum macros is starting to get up my todo list. Matt Blackwell (Blackwell Engineering) already added some nice facemill insert measuring code and I think we need to get the tool break code optimised (especially for those who run with...- hi-fly-cnc
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Machine probe options
From what I can see, probes will trigger fairly accurately in the tens of microns range without an issue. However, triggering in the microns range needs some fettling of the design. Also the majority of spindle probes seems to use the three armed design to sense movement, and this creates some...- hi-fly-cnc
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Machine probe options
That price seems very high? I'm in europe, but a random search of online shops gives me a baseline price of: - https://www.damencnc.com/en/tc52-workpiece-touch-probe-toolholder-for-example-hsk-f63/a2834 As I wrote this, that's the equiv of about $5,300 USD (perhaps you need an extra few 10s of...- hi-fly-cnc
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Low Runout CAT40 Toolholders
I'm a BT30 owner, but recently become a huge fan of shrink fit holders. My issue was buying the first one... I'm not a big shop and there was zero chance of me buying a relatively expensive shrink machine just to try out the technology. So I bought one of those little induction heaters that are...- hi-fly-cnc
- Post #27
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HAAS shrink fit for $5k any good?
Yep. I had one of those Amazon induction heaters. They take about 40 seconds to heat the tool. I returned it and bought the 1.5kw version, which heats in about 30secs (in the UK you can buy them with brand names on for quite a lot of money or direct from AliExpress for less money than the Amazon...- hi-fly-cnc
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Brother Spindle Probe Costs
Hehe! If that one was making you twitch, then this is going to spoil your day! Overspecified or what! 🤣 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv0PcfDoWlf/ Generally I've been running tests to ensure that the Fusion output matches the simulation. So for example the Blum angled measure moves don't make...- hi-fly-cnc
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Brother Spindle Probe Costs
Sure. See my changes here: https://github.com/ewildgoose/fusion-360-post-processors This is based off the latest autodesk post. Then you you want to check through the commit history and grab all the changes which look like they are probing related (not so many), eg the main two are these: -...- hi-fly-cnc
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Brother Speedio Purchase Questions
Just re the tooling point. Have a look at heat shrink tooling. At least here in the UK I can pickup a nice dual contact shrink holder for about the same money as a dual contact ER holder. Runout is way better, although convenience to swap tools is worse... I mainly use them for standard tools...- hi-fly-cnc
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Brother's conversational
Unfortunately with the Brother it's massively easier to edit on the computer... in fact I don't even edit the tool table on the machine itself... I think you are expecting something different from the conversational on the Brother? Perhaps something visual? It's really just a (slightly) higher...- hi-fly-cnc
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ChatterSync Wireless USB Drive
The issue with running from the usb stick is because it allows updates to the stick at any time. A device using a USB drive assumes that it's the only writer. So there is no way to communicate to the device that the files have changed in disk. Therefore usually you force the USB to disconnect...- hi-fly-cnc
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Brother's conversational
It's not visual. It's a slightly more expressive g-code if you like- hi-fly-cnc
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PROBE BOSS TO SLOT TROUBLESHOOTING
I've recently done exactly this. I'm a Blum user and I couldn't be bothered to try and understand the manual pages to do more esoteric stuff. Computing an angle between two points is really quite straight forward... In my case the centre was quite constrained so I only needed to measure the...- hi-fly-cnc
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Achieving seamless profile when contouring on secondary operation
I've done some experimenting using my Blum spindle probe for blending surfaces after flipping. My experience is that if I drill a hole with an end mill, then measure it's location, it's usually quite a lot of microns away from where it should be. (In aluminulium) If I run the end mill in and...- hi-fly-cnc
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Most efficient way to program multiple parts in Speedio
I think you might be able to partly do what you want in the existing setup I haven't double checked this, but I think the retract at the end is driven from the "machine definition" "Home" location. So whilst it's not very customisable, you could create a machine definition for use with the 4th...- hi-fly-cnc
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Most efficient way to program multiple parts in Speedio
How do you imagine this working? Something like in the header an "IF #199 NE #0" would set #199 = default retract distance Then the retract would go to Z[#199] So on the control you can go in and edit #199, but if it's not set then we apply a default? Default being customisable in the NC...- hi-fly-cnc
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Most efficient way to program multiple parts in Speedio
If you can show me a bit of an example, I'll take a look at the retract? The retracts happen in function writeRetract(), you can pass the axis you want retracted. You will see various logic here to move the X/Y axis to home positions, etc The call to writeRetract is probably from onEnd, which...- hi-fly-cnc
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Most efficient way to program multiple parts in Speedio
What's that cost you on a Brother? 0.3secs..? 😁- hi-fly-cnc
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Most efficient way to program multiple parts in Speedio
Hi, I've been doing some significant work on the Brother post and trying to bring in all the changes from various community edits, plus fixup some of the other issues with the autodesk version (eg fixing the Blum probing). You can find that here...- hi-fly-cnc
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In a Speedio, how do I do a location verification in program.
That's correct What's happening is that the control reads [a bunch] of lines ahead of the current position. It evaluates all the commands on those lines, which can have surprising consequences, eg if you store the machine location or current data in some variable, then this actually happens...- hi-fly-cnc
- Post #19
- Forum: CNC Machining