Machine is Built, General questions before I start milling

[aforww]

Feb 25, 2017 21:57:04 GMT markwisniowski said:

Feb 25, 2017 21:37:01 GMT aforww said:

That is exactly right. You manually jog the machine to where ever you want your work zero to be. Lower Z ( you can use a piece of paper and lower Z until the cutter just catches the paper as you pull it out.) 

If you look at my spoil board, you will see a grid of lines spaced at 10mm. I made those lines with a vbit and manually jogged and cut a very shallow grid. It shows me the outermost limits of the machine and it also serves as a reference that is exactly in line with the X/Y of the spindle. I did the grid first, then set the pieces of wood lined up with the lines but offset a couple mm to make sure I didn't hit the limit of travel if I had to machine right along the edge. You can go a step further, and use the mill to make sure the blocks are a true 90 to the X and Y by throwing a cutter in, firing up the router than manually jogging and planing off the face. 

Oh man it just happened...EVERYTHING now makes sense!!! Thanks!!

Lol glad it clicked. I should clarify, just in case, once you get the machine to where you are wanting to start, make sure you reset the zero so the machine knows that spot is 0 0 0.

[markwisniowski]

Feb 25, 2017 21:37:01 GMT aforww said:

Awesome, that makes total sense! One thing I'm still missing... what is the process of knowing where that X, Y and Z zero is on the spoil board. You mentioned you have your wooden guides setup FRONT/LEFT on the bed but how did you even know where to place them in the beginning?  

Just taking a guess here while things are starting to make sense...do I manually control the Spindle movement to the workpiece that is placed on the spoil board, lower down the Z until the bit touches where I place my WCS zero in Fusion360?

That is exactly right. You manually jog the machine to where ever you want your work zero to be. Lower Z ( you can use a piece of paper and lower Z until the cutter just catches the paper as you pull it out.) 

If you look at my spoil board, you will see a grid of lines spaced at 10mm. I made those lines with a vbit and manually jogged and cut a very shallow grid. It shows me the outermost limits of the machine and it also serves as a reference that is exactly in line with the X/Y of the spindle. I did the grid first, then set the pieces of wood lined up with the lines but offset a couple mm to make sure I didn't hit the limit of travel if I had to machine right along the edge. You can go a step further, and use the mill to make sure the blocks are a true 90 to the X and Y by throwing a cutter in, firing up the router than manually jogging and planing off the face. 

That's a genius idea with the grid lines I'm definitely going to do that as well.

[aforww]

Feb 26, 2017 5:57:14 GMT markwisniowski said:

Feb 25, 2017 21:37:01 GMT aforww said:

That is exactly right. You manually jog the machine to where ever you want your work zero to be. Lower Z ( you can use a piece of paper and lower Z until the cutter just catches the paper as you pull it out.) 

If you look at my spoil board, you will see a grid of lines spaced at 10mm. I made those lines with a vbit and manually jogged and cut a very shallow grid. It shows me the outermost limits of the machine and it also serves as a reference that is exactly in line with the X/Y of the spindle. I did the grid first, then set the pieces of wood lined up with the lines but offset a couple mm to make sure I didn't hit the limit of travel if I had to machine right along the edge. You can go a step further, and use the mill to make sure the blocks are a true 90 to the X and Y by throwing a cutter in, firing up the router than manually jogging and planing off the face. 

That's a genius idea with the grid lines I'm definitely going to do that as well.

It's pretty handy.

[markwisniowski]

Ugh just noticed all this info on WCS and and the paper trick is at the end of the Quick start Guide in the resources section of millrightcnc website...

This brings me to my final question before I start cutting. When jogging over to your 0,0,0 WCS origin on your stock material do you hit "Reset Zero" in UGS to set it?

[Derek the Admin]

Feb 28, 2017 22:53:26 GMT markwisniowski said:

Ugh just noticed all this info on WCS and and the paper trick is at the end of the Quick start Guide in the resources section of millrightcnc website...

This brings me to my final question before I start cutting. When jogging over to your 0,0,0 WCS origin on your stock material do you hit "Reset Zero" in UGS to set it?

Yea, that will set a temp system by g92 x0 Y0 z0 in the background if I remember correctly. Just don't hit the return to home button if you got UGS off our website. There is a glitch on that button.

[markwisniowski]

Cool thanks! Been using UGS platform the past few days, I like it.