I searched and did not get the answers that made sense. I have a part or few parts I want to make on my X2 cnc mill. I am using mach3 to control the machine. I would like to use a fixture system like what i saw on the Industrial hobbies web site.
Question 1. Should I use a fixture plate with subfixtures or just pin each individual part fixture? What are pros and cons? I was leaning to the IH version of doing this.
Question 2. should the plate be flush with the rear of the table or hanging over the rear? Same for the front of the table... If hanging over how much should it hang over?
Question 3. How do you make a Zero point on the fixture?
Question 4. How do you set the fixture offset in the program to allow multiple parts to be machined?
here is the type of part I will be machining...How many do you think I can make at one time?
and an idea of the type of fixture i will use can be seen in the summer 2009 issue of the digital machinist (the taig t-nut fixture).