Hey guys,
I'm stumped on this and just need help thinking this through. I'm essentially milling a cylinder from 1" square stock. I have 1 setup to mill one side using a parallel tool path, then I flip the stock 180 degrees and run basically the same tool path to make a cylinder. My issue is the top half is about 10 thousands off of the bottom. I have calibrated the mill till i'm blue in the face and normally I would say it's the backlash however it had been calibrated out and, after I run the first setup and flip the stock over, I hit "return to zero" and the mill will return to the same starting point within a thousands of an inch,. I'm thinking if my mill was off, it would not return to the exact spot to start the second setup?
Which leaves me with the way the CAM is set up. Any Ideas? I can reset my zero on the second set up and just move the Y-axis out 10 thousandths but I would like to have it run from the zero point I programed.
Thanks,
Dust