Hello all,
I've been happily running my 2014 for 16 months now and just saw a video that blew my mind a little. Yes, looking back I do wish I had gotten a VF for the extra $ but a TM2P is what I have and needed for my production for long walk away times.
I'm doing more job shop work and cycle times are getting obnoxious. I find I have to throttle HSMXPRESS and Fusion 360 speeds back to prevent the machine from bogging down and shaking.
For example an adaptive clearing on AL with tolerance and smoothing set to 0.05" and Haas finish setting on P2 (forget the code and I'm on the road) I run a 0.5" em at 75ipm with 0.1 woc at 1.25 doc and it still slows and jumps. I watched the video below and can't imagine the vibration my machine would make at those speeds. I tried turning on the HSM option trial period and saw little difference but maybe I did it wrong.
Do you have to constantly change the look ahead setting to achieve such speeds? Is the HSM option really THAT MUCH smoother just reading code faster?
I'm willing to spend the money tomorrow if that would actually be the output but hate wasting $ that could be better spent. I run adaptive clearing with 1.5" em for facing ops on specific production parts in AL and the limiting factor is always the machine stuttering in 1/3 of what "should" be almost arcs based on my setting in the program.
I honstly thought it was mostly a limitation of my machine but now I'm wondering if the HSM option is really that amazing.
I appreciate your input.
Mastercam high speed machining on a Haas TM2 - YouTube
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