Some updates
Waiting (impatiently) for lube tubing to come. Found a couple of metering valves that dont seem to be working so ordered those.
I am still waiting on the manuals should come as USB drives. I ended up purchasing all of the manuals. Thanks for the suggestions on this, I am sure I will end up using them.
As I wait for parts, I got a post process file from
@Lock thanks for this. I had to modify the tool change to be on 2 separate lines but otherwise the post seems to work. I was able to successfully DNC a file and run it cutting air but a couple things were not right with offsets.
I was able to do tool offset but I am still missing something in the process (operations manual would be handy right now). When I went to tool measurement button the bias was set to -17.xxx. I changed this to 3 to set off a 123 block for now. I brought the head down from Z home touched off the tool then hit retract. The machine recorded a large negative tool offset which did not seem right? So then I set my G54 numbers, I found the left and rear of my stock put those into X and Y respectively. For Z though I dont have a known gauge length tool so what is the process for setting Z? Assuming the G54 is an offset from Z home? Since I was cutting air for this run I put the nose of the spindle at 5 inches off the table and set that as my Z.
So in Fusion I picked the left rear bottom of my stock. I set the coordinate system to x plus to the left and y plus coming at me (same as the machine). Loaded the program and got an error. It was clear the large tool offset was not right. So I manually put a tool offset in. In this case 3". Tried running the program again and the program executed
But... the Z was ~8 inches above where I thought it should be. Also the machine performed the operations mirrored. I.e. in fusion the tool path would have been going to the right on X and it went to the left... I think I must have had my coordinate system wrong in Fusion.
Couple questions, in CAM where do you set your WCS? Which direction is X plus?
Here is what mine looked like.
Is the tooloffset an offset from Z home? How is this offset applied to G54 Z?
Thanks for the help here, math is not working in my head so I appreciate any help...