Hey guys I am looking for some help. I had about 10min today to try some code on a new part between putting out fires all day. I would love to get back on the machines and get this going on my own but I don’t get much time on the machines these days.
Attached is a pic of a new part that I need to machine in my 5axis. I am doing this vertically on a 15 series Fanuc control with a rotary axis. The OD of the part is a solid pc that I am milling scallops out of with a 1/2dia endmill. There are 16 scallops spaced around the OD of the part.
I am just bringing my Y-axis (Z on my machine) to the 33.466 dia at CL and rotating the B-axis to the first scallop cc from CL. Now once I start to spin around the scallop via G3B()Z()R() it wants to move the X-axis. I want to keep my cutter/table at X0 and only rotate B-axis.
So this may be a newbie question but with my time constraints I need to know if I can spin around the scallop via G3 without moving the X-axis??
As always thank you for the input.
Stevo