Initial Machine Setup (0:00-0:18)
0:00-0:18: “When you first start the machine up, it’s going to come up in the home, and you’re going to click on Home System on the corner here, and that’s going to home the system so you’re ready to go. There’s also a warm-up spindle, and if it’s the first time during the day, you’re going to use that. We’ve already used the machine, so I’m not going to warm it up.”
Workstation Selection (0:18-0:34)
0:18-0:34: “You’re going to go into a Workstage that’s up here on the top. There’s one for horizontal table. There’s also one for vertical and one for two. This system has three controllers, one for each workstation, and we’re going to work specifically in the horizontal.”
Work Offset Setup (0:34-0:53)
0:34-0:53: “We have over on this side, five work-offsets which we can click on to choose which one we want to use. I’m going to select one, and you can have to name it if you want, but I’m not going to bother with that. I’m simply going to select this first work-offsets. That’s one we’re going to work in here.”
Initial Positioning (0:53-1:19)
0:53-1:19: “There’s four buttons right here that allow me to change this display screen here. I’m going to click on Control, and there is a button under the Go-to section that’s often says offset X0, Y0. We’re going to go to X0, Y0. This obviously is not correct. We’re not in the corner of the part. In this case, we’re going to set the offset really quickly for that.”
1:19-1:48: “Now, I use, we could do this with a V-Bit, which is in there, but I like to use a laser pointer. Now, one of the things that we can do in here is if I go into Control, there’s a button here under the mode that says I’m either in ATT auto-tool change or if I push it again, it’s empty for manual tool change.”
1:48-2:58: “For this demonstration, I’m just going to do it manual tool change mode. They both work. It doesn’t matter. I’m going to do it manual tool change. You’ll see me change the tools right here. I’m going to use two tools, the V-Bit and this one. On the screen right here on this display, last one says tools or tool and I click on that, and then I can control the tool and I’m in manual tool change mode. I’m going to go right here and I’m going to say, pick up tool number and give it a number. I’m going to give it tool number 8 because it’s not one of the workstations. To be honest, it doesn’t matter. We’re not in our tool change. It doesn’t matter. I’m just going to say, pick it up. Now it says tool 1 that’s in there is the V-Bit, and it says it has tool 1 in there. I’m going to just click on pick up tool, and it goes to my manual tool change location. I’ll click on hold the tool and see if I’ll drop it.”
2:58-3:02: “Once you put it in, then it has little things that change the tool and confirm the number. It has number 8 if I want to change it again. I’m just going to confirm it by pushing the play button or the second start button. We’ve got the product a bit and now let’s set up the offset.”
Material Preparation (3:02-3:36)
3:02-3:36: “I put the double side tape on here, but I have not put it on the machine. I’m going to hold the paper off the backer. We’ll stick this on the machine. Right now, I have surface plane. That’s the base table and I have surface plane it. It leaves a white bridge on one side. I’m going to use that as my guide where to put it. I’m going to put the front edge just on the table. That’s going to work just fine for my guide here. Otherwise, I would run a laser dendlin this just to make sure it’s straight. But it’s going to make it easy.”
Using Control Keys (3:36-4:27)
3:36-4:27: “Control is the key. If you hold the control down and you can’t use the arrows, you have to use your numeric keyboard over here because it’s alphanumeric. We use the four because it has an arrow on it, but it’s actually pushing four. I’m going to push this and when I let go, it’ll stop. If I push this and let go of control first, it’s going to keep going until I get it here. That can scare you to death. So hold control and let it go.”
Setting Y-Axis (4:27-5:03)
4:27-5:03: “OK, oh, you can actually see this. I can see it on the screen. You can see right down here on the edge, there’s a red dot and it’s splitting that beam. You can see it on the bottom and the top is a slight red dot. OK, so this now is the y-axis. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to on my screen right here, I have x, y, z, and a. If I press on the X button, just like in Mach 3, it will zero that register. So that’s my y-axis. Click on the y-axis and it’ll set that axis. OK, we’re doing the y. Now let’s set the x.”
Setting X-Axis (5:03-6:24)
5:03-6:07: “OK, so I’m going to jump this over. OK, so it is close now. It’s close, however, it’s not right on. And if I go to the control, I can put it in step job and it’s set for 10,000 to the niche. So in the step job mode, now every time I hit the button, I’m using control and an arrow button. Then every time I do that is step only 10,000, so I can line it up real carefully.”
6:07-6:24: “OK, now you can kind of see it in the video here. The dot is just touching this ad and it’s splitting and you can see the rest of the dot down here at the bottom. So that’s my x-axis. So I’ll simply zero my x. Now, what I can do to verify that it’s correct is under my control, I can go to offset x zero, y zero. So that laser is right in the corner of that plane, so I know that we’re good.”
Z-Axis Setup Introduction (6:24-6:53)
6:24-6:53: “OK, so that’s one of the first things I’m going to check is, you know, get into your workstation, get into your work concept, set it. And if you want to name it, but we want to get bothered. And now we have to control the z and that’s done with the smart tool. So I’ll go to the smart tool tab right here, this button. And here’s all my smart tool controls. And we’re going to have to change the bit because we don’t want to touch off of the laser and destroy it.”
6:53-8:01: “So a couple ways to do this, I can go into tool and pick up the other tool, whichever one it is, or I can do it manually. OK, so it’s probably good practice to just use the tools, the tool. We’re going to do it that way. I’m not going to show you a lot of options. So it says tool and spindle is eight and pick up tool is eight. I’m going to change pick up tool to one. And because we’re in manual tool change mode, it’s going to do it up here. Otherwise, it would change eight here. I would take that out and then it would run back and grab one. OK, but we’re in manual tool change. So when I click this camera release. And the same thing that says right here, confirm the tool number. And you can actually click on that and change it right now, but we’re going to leave it as tool number one. And so you just press the cycle start button. So now we have the tool and we’re ready to do our smart tool set up. Let’s.”
8:01-8:36: “Placing the smart tool on the table because these zeros on top. Excuse me, on the table on the part, because when we programmed it, we put these zero on top. All right, and good job over here. And by the way, I’m hitting the job. You know, I hit the job here. It’s moving, but it’s feeling stepped out mode. So if you ever do this and it doesn’t move, go to control, you’ll probably be in step job mode to just push that and take it out. And then you can job. OK, page up is nine, page down is three. So I’m going to hit page down. Now I’m just getting it close because at this point it’s much easier for me to move the smart tool that it is. If we go around trying to get. OK, so it’s in place.”
8:36-9:19: “Now we’re going to. Up here, we’re going to go to the smart tool screen display screen up here. And this is program. You’re going to get a setup and you have two choices, multiple and single. For this, I’m always going to tell you to run multiple when you get started. Okay, it’ll never fail. Single can be a little more tricky in that topic for another class. So let’s go multiple tools.”
9:19-10:25: “And if you hit this button, by the way, it’s going to start. It’s going to start probing. So if you have not placed it over the smart tool pad. And you hit that button, you better slam that button. Because you don’t want to. You don’t want that. You don’t want to crash into the way. So make sure the smart tool pads over before you get the multiple tools. And then it’ll start probing. And again, you could hit that reset. It’ll stop it. It’s necessary. Let me demonstrate Rafferty in this process. On the screen, it’s telling me to move the smart tool back to its home position. And click on the confirm. Now watch what happens. It’s going to wrap a Z down and then it’s going to start probing. There’s the rapid. And now probes. See, there’s a gap there. And we set that for a pretty long bit. When it comes, it’s going to be set for a pretty long bit. Our checklist again is workstation, work offset, smart tool. So we’ve set the X, Y, we set the Z. Those are the two things. If you remember that set X, Y, set Z, then you’re ready to go.”
Program Loading and Execution (10:25-12:36)
10:25-10:54: “So now we can go to our program. And we can click open. And I’m going to look on my flash drive. And there is the welcome sign. T code is listed here because it’s an empty file. Now. We’ve gone through the entire checklist. All we have to do at this point is press the cycle start. All right. So we’re just going to hit the cycle start button.”
10:54-12:24: “Okay. Now, again, was that rapid Z unit touch? And it’s going to go over and start. Okay. Now, again, was that rapid Z unit touch? And it’s going to go over and start cutting. Okay. Let me pull this thing off real quick. I’m just going to back out of the way.” [Multiple “Okay” statements from 11:47-12:10] “And you can see that. That’s really probably almost have to grab. The TCL or something.”
12:24-12:36: “There’s our flower and our welcome. All right.”
12:36-12:48: “Just beginning starter program for you. This is a great starter project. So I would highly encourage you to do this project or something simple like this as your very first project.”
