[rgm]

This is the first Okuma I have worked on! It is a Okuma vertical with OSP 5000M control.

How do you set the X,Y Zero, and how do you set the Tool Length Offsets.

I have a lot of experience on Fanuc style controls, but this is a new challenge!!!

Thanks for any help you can give!!!

RGM

[littlerob]

It's the same as Fansuc, jog your toolholder to where XY zero needs to be, go to the zero set page, and push CAL, then push 0, then WRITE. That is XY. For the offsets, jog your tool to the part, go to the offsets page, push CAL, 0, WRITE. It really isn't that much different from Frantuc, just better, faster, more intuitive, easier to use and waaaaaaaay more memory.

Robert

[rgm]

Thanks, I will give it a try!

RGM

[OkumaWiz]

One way I like to set tool lengths is to set the zero from the spindle face. If you do that, when you put a 3.5" tool in the spindle , your offset is 3.5" in the register. Much safer to tell if your tool offset is "looking right".

To do this, remove your tool from the spindle and bring your spindle face down to the the top of a gage block resting on the top of your part (Z zero). If your gage block is 2" then go to your active zero set and CAL 2". This establishes Z zero as the top of your part and the spindle face as tool zero length.

Next put a tool in the spindle and bring it down to the top of your part. CAL 0" in your tool offset page. This will give you a tool offset that "looks" like it should based on the actual tool stick out from the spindle face.

Yes both ways will work...it is just a matter of preference, but I sure like to see an offset that makes sense to me.

Best regards,

[UWP_Wes]

One way I like to set tool lengths is to set the zero from the spindle face. If you do that, when you put a 3.5" tool in the spindle , your offset is 3.5" in the register. Much safer to tell if your tool offset is "looking right".

To do this, remove your tool from the spindle and bring your spindle face down to the the top of a gage block resting on the top of your part (Z zero). If your gage block is 2" then go to your active zero set and CAL 2". This establishes Z zero as the top of your part and the spindle face as tool zero length.

Next put a tool in the spindle and bring it down to the top of your part. CAL 0" in your tool offset page. This will give you a tool offset that "looks" like it should based on the actual tool stick out from the spindle face.

Yes both ways will work...it is just a matter of preference, but I sure like to see an offset that makes sense to me.

Best regards,

I do about the same thing, but what I did was touch off the face of the spindle, and then record that offset and put it in a program.

I call the program TOOLSET.MIN. It brings the tool to the right front corner of the table and sets the Z offset using VZOFZ[1]=the number I recorded from touching off the spindle nose. There are two M1s to prompt you to set up the touch off tool and then jog down the tool in the spindle. Touch off and hit CAL in the tool page.

It works great as long as you remember to use it.

[marleecnc]

You can also use the G92 command to zero out your axes.

[rgm]

Thanks for the info!