Tool priorities

[G Caputo]

Hi all,

 

I did a search in here but i couldn't find the answer I was looking for, so I hope someone can be of help. I am making 12 parts of "A" and 4 parts of "B". What I have been doing is making 2 at a time of the same part. I have a program and have been transforming the program by coordinate and operation type at a 22" Y spacing to produce two identical parts. Well now shipping dates are becoming an issue and we need 3 part A's and 1 part B. So, are production engineer tells me to do the parts this way. He's a mazak guy all the way and he tells me just to prioritize the tools. Is this possible with MC? At most we are going to lose is 10 minutes of tool change time, so if this would become a complicated mess, I am all for letting them run 1 at a time. I was just wondering if there was an easy way to go about doing this.

 

Thanks,

Greg

[GREG]

We run production ISO on Mazaks and the only way we have found to do what you want is to run sub prorams from a Mazatrol main.

Each part has its own WPC and same tool is run over all parts before tool change.

 

Cheers

[G Caputo]

Sorry, I guess I need to clarify myself. I am not running a mazak at all. The production engineer used to run mazak's and he was the one talking about tool priorities. I was just wondering if there was a way to take 2 programs and translate 1 of them 22" on the Y and then let mastercam decide what operations it can do while the tool was out and apply them to 2 different programs to create 1 NC program.

 

Greg

[Eric S.]

Hi

 

You can create a separate transform operation for each of your tools that has more than one operation. This will create a program that runs all the operations of the first tool on each part before changing tools,

 

Hope this helps.

 

Eric

[Fig sign]

I don`t know if it helps but you can do this :

1. Save your file under other name for a backup.

2.operation manager -> transform your parts as needed.

3. in operation manager with a right mouse click -> sort operations ->by tool number.

The first stage is needed because of this

 

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Operation aren't always created in order and there is no (easy) way to reset it.

 

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