I have one paticular part I machine thousands of that starts life as a forging . I jig ten of them up on a rotary fixture aprox 6" wide x 18" long thats hung between a tailstock and an hr210 rotary . There are 5 parts on each side of the fixture. At one position I have to bore a hole and thread mill a boss on each of the 10 parts . Forgings are nice but not exact so each time I clamp a new batch of parts to the fixture I have to take my edge finder and set the y axis offset for each of the 10 parts individualy .
I dont have the probe but am considering adding it if it could possibly cut this 10-15 minute procedure down to 5 minutes or less, I currently can run 12 setups a day and I am losing 2+ hours a day.
Is it possible with the probe to write a little routine that will allow the machine to touch off in a paticular place on all 10 parts seperatley and enter the proper offsets in G154 P** automaticly ? The boss on the 10 individual parts is within .010" of the same place everytime .
What would I need to do to have the machine run over touch off on part 1 , enter the Y offset in p58 , touch off on the next part enter the y offset in p59 , etc, rotate the a axis 180 and do the other 5 parts ? Would this be a situation where a macro would need to be written and if so would I need to have Macros activated to do this with the probe?
Thanks for any help , I have no exp with a probe (alien or otherwise) other than the one on my big lathe that sets tool offsets