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    g-view and wcs for HBM

    I was curious as to what would be the standard way to set my gview and WCS for machining with an horizontal boring mill?

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    The face to be machined at B0 is orientated to be FRONT view

    The WCS is TOP for ALL ops done with that setup, and the T/C plane is set to FRONT when machining the front face, outputs will be B0.
    - if you need to machine on the RIGHT view ( or B90. ) the WCS is still TOP, T/C plane is RIGHT SIDE

    --- you can assign a different work offset number to each view used to aid in setup ( & adjustment ) , or position the part relative to the B-rotation origin and use the same work offset number


    The only other valid planes you can use/create for a HMC 4 axis are those that rotate around the 4th axis ( ie. BACK, LEFT SIDE or one that you create yourself )

    NOTE...G-View ( terminology ) is only a graphics view, It cannot be used until it has been saved and then called up in the operation ( Planes )

    HINT... if you are programming operations on 1 face only, you can get away with using WCS=TOP, T/C Planes=TOP. It should output B0. in your NC program ( any other added views CANNOT be achieved by a 4-axis horizontal )

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