Hello,
I'm new to the forum but I have been lurking a bit. We have an Okada bridge machining center with a Fanuc 15im controller. This is a 5-Axis machine (x,y,z,b&c). We have recently acquired it from another department who was primarily using macro programing. We are going to be feeding it with a DNC set-up. I am utilizing WorkNC for my CAM system. Many of our molds are deep cavities with little draft. I would like to tip the head (b-axis) to allow us to use shorter tools and to avoid tool holder interferance. On the CAM end this is easily accomplished and we can output the correct code for tipping the head. The problem lies in handling the tool length when the head gets tipped. I was under the impression that the G43.1 command would handle this but we've been unsuccesful. There are several parameters that apply to this code but we just don't know where to begin. When the head is tipped the tool seems to locate ok in the x and y positions but the z height of the tool is not correct. Any help in how we can handle this situation would be much appreciated. This machine does not have RTCP.
Thanks,
Randy