[rustyh]

Good Day All,



Had a quick question on how you all use the G10 commend.



At the moment, we program parts up on Siemens NX CAM, Alot of parts are ran on dual station vices and we model and program this as such in the CAM, so we end up with a G54 and G55 part of the program.
The benefit to this is we can order the tooling efficiently to run both work offsets then change tool. All pretty standard that I'm sure you all do.

The down side is that some times we only want to run one part, or maybe some times have 2 dual vices and run 4 parts. Meaning we would have to go create 3 separate programs, one for G54, one for G54 and G55, and one for G54, G55, G56 and G57.

I'm wondering if this is where G10 could help. Therefore we have one program for G54 (probably as a sub program), then for each part we use G10 to change the G54 work offsets for each location.

So, use G10 to set the first G54 location, run program, loop and use G10 to set G54 again to second location, run program, loop and use G10 to set G54 again to second location and so on??



Is this common practice, and would it work?
Or is it safer to stick to the current method of programming each work offset separately?



?Cheers

Rusty

[metalmayhem]

when it comes to multi part fixturing I prefer g52 shifts and one single reference point . With vises that sort of thing gets messy because the part positions tend to vary between jobs . If your only running 4 parts then it's easy enough to qualify g54-g57 and block skip the other positions and subs when you only need to run one part

eg
g54 m97p1000
/ g55 m97p1000
/ g56 m97p1000
/ g57 m97p1000
and so on