Introduction and Overview (0:00-1:12)
0:01-0:51: “Okay, so Today, we’re literally going to go from beginning to end on setting up for a vertical table. So the literary from turning the machine on all the way to setting up the XYZ zeros to even cutting the parts and eventually shutting the machine down. So go from beginning to end on the entire process step-by-step. So you can see how that takes place, a great great thing to get familiar with. It’s almost like your daily routine that you’re going to be using the machine with. So this is something that you can always come back to as a Reminder, from here on out. Let’s go on with the the step by step of setting up a Delta controller for your vertical table. The first step is turning the machine on and the back part where the tool holders are, is the right side of the machine and that’s where the power switch is. You’ll see me going to turn the machine on here in just a second.”
0:58-1:12: “It’s going to be in a similar location also for your Maverick three by fives, in that front right corner of the system. Once you power that off, your Delta controllers. It’s also going to power on. You can see right here. It’s going to power on your controller screen as well.”
Powering On and Initial Setup (1:12-3:10)
1:11-1:12: “screen as well.”
1:15-2:49: “Okay. So now that the controller is up in the machine, is now ready to go on to the next step here on the Delta. We have a screen, the home screen at the top. And the first thing we need to do is everything is grayed out except for the home system buttons. We’re going to press that and that is actually going to reference the machine. You can actually see all the movement of the axes kind of moving in a slow travel. Once it’s referenced and it will, it will be a completely everything after everything is 0. We can move. On To The Next Step of warming up our spindle. So, before we perform a spindle warm-up, I always like to check this number. The reason why is because when I press spindle warm up, Okay, it’s going to ask me which tool number. Do you want me to put into the machine regardless, regardless, if it’s manual tool change, or Auto Tool change, they will still ask this for all Delta controllers. So because I had tool 0 in the actual tool number field. And right now, I have a different number in here, which is tool number one. This is going to perform a tool change. If it was the same number. Let’s say that the tool position number, read it to number. One. And now when I press spend a warm up, it says total number one as well. That means that it’s going to perform a spindle warm up, but it’s going to bypass the tool change process because it already thinks the right tool is in the spindle. So we’re going to use tool number one and this is Auto Tool change. So it’s going to go pick up the tool and perform a spindle warm up. Now. I’m going to stop the actual spindle warm-up routine because I’ve already done that today, but this is the sequence that you would perform.”
3:03-3:05: “Okay, very good. Now, I’m going to stop the system.”
Setting Up the Vertical Table (3:10-5:09)
3:10-4:34: “Normally, I would let that spindle. Warm-up happen, complete, you know, let it finish it sequence, completely for the three horsepower. Spindles, usually takes three to five minutes to warm up for the 6 hp. Spindles. It takes about maybe both 8 to 10 minutes. So I did figured you didn’t want to wait for that long for that spindle to warm up, so we can always stop any sequence at any time with the reset button at the very top or the EPO switch down here at the very bottom. So after the spindle warm up is complete. We are now done with the beginning of Routine and we can proceed on to our next step. Okay, so that is setting up the component for the vertical table. Now, on the controls on screen. We actually have a separate screen for vertical table. So if we come in, we click on that. Okay, no changes to it. An operation. Set up for the vertical table. The typically the next thing I would do is make sure I’m using the work offset that I want to choose from it, automatically defaults, the selection, the top one for you when you go to the screen, so I’m going to use that one today. But if I wanted to use a different one, I could say, I want to use this one and you can see it highlights whenever I press it. And then I’ll go back to my default one just because that’s what I’m going to use today. Okay, now on the machine. I’m going to mount my part. I’m going to show you how I’m going to mount. I’m going to use what’s called a stopping block to make it. So the top of the part is the same surface as my table, top surface.”
5:01-5:10: “So once I got my blank mounted and we’re ready to move on with the setup. We need to know how to move the machine manually. So, we’re going to use the actual keyboard.”
Manual Movement Control (5:09-7:16)
5:07-7:16: “So, we’re going to use the actual keyboard. That comes with the machine, we look at the controller, we have the axes and we have the buttons on the screen. The actually do move the machine. If I push for example x – button, it will move the machine in the negative Direction, in the x axis and that goes the same. For all of these buttons for the for the individual axes, on the keyboard, instead of using the arrow keys. Like we did in mach3. We’ve now shifted to this number pad. Okay, and you’re actually going to see little arrows on the, on the keyboard as well. For these numeric numbers. Number four, and number six, are your x axis? You are. Number eight. And number two, are your y-axis and your number 9. And number three, say page, up and page down, and those of your Z axis going up and down. Okay? Now pushing those buttons, don’t move the machine. You have to hold down the control key on the keyboard in order to move them. So, for example, if I hold down the control key and then move, let’s say for which is x negative. You can see the machine behind me moving. If I do the, let’s say the 8th and or the to the, to is the negative y-axis, you can see the machine moving. Whenever I press that. Now, as a good practice, never let go of the control key until you’re done moving. We’re going to use those controls. Those manual controls to move the system where we need it to be for maybe a manual tool change procedure and even to line up our XY axis and art are smart tool, touch off sequence. The next steps that are coming. All right. So the next thing I need to do is I need to insert a tool that I can use to find a corner or an edge of the part because the machine doesn’t know where the part is. So my job is to find the zeros of where I want the blink to be the way. I know where that location is. Is we use what’s called a job setup sheet. Now this gives us kind of a 2d view representation of the part looking down on it, but we’re going to be more focused on the material setup information. Ation of a job setup sheet to tell us how to zero out this part. So the first thing is it tells us a blank sighs. So this is”
Finding Part Zero Positions (7:16-9:50)
7:13-9:35: “thing is it tells us a blank sighs. So this is 12 inches long. It’s a 4 inches wide and it’s 3/4 of an inch thick, but also it tells us how it needs to be oriented in the machine. For example, the y-axis needs to have the 4X, the four inches. So that’s the width, the thickness of three quarter goes along the x axis and the 12 inches goes along my z-axis. So I know how to Reenter in the machine. When it’s in that vertical table. These are the more important things of how where we need to set our zeros because we have X y&z that we need to zero out. So on the z-axis we need to make the top of the material rz0, but then the XY axis as we need to make the bottom right corner rz0. So on this part here, we made the top of the surface, the same surface as our tabletop surface. So that will be the Z 0. Will be the top surface here, both of those sections. Okay. Same thing. Now, the corner needs to be XY is 0 bottom, right corner. Now the edge of the machine that has the smart tool on it. So this Edge right here is the front of the machine. Okay. So this is the, you can say the bottom Edge. This is the top Edge. This is the left Edge and this is the right Edge. So if we need to do the bottom right corner, that corner right there, or right, see if I can get a better Point View that corner right there. Is where we need to make our XY 0 using our edge finder tool. Now we’re going to insert a tool to help us find the X Y 0 position. Today. I’m just going to use this laser edge finder. You could use a tip of a tool like a V cutter if you want it to. So let’s show you in the Control software, how we’re going to put that into the machine. First is I like to go to my tool sub screen. Okay, and you have a button here called MTC xy0. That stands for manual tool change. X Y is 0. So, so, if I push that, It’s going to actually move the machine close to the operator. Now. This is a on Auto Tool change spindle. So I have a release clamp or at least to land a clamp tool button in order to bring my Cutters in and out with a manual tool change. You will use two wrenches to get your Cutters in and out of your colors. So, we have a tool in here already. Okay, so I’m going to grab the cutter and press release tool.”
9:44-9:51: “Now, that I’ve inserted the tool, I’m going to press clamp tool. Now, on an audit tool”
Tool Changes and Touch Off Procedures (9:50-12:25)
9:48-10:48: “going to press clamp tool. Now, on an audit tool change machine. You’ll hear that air pressure kind of leaking when the Tool clamp is open. You know, you have the to land properly when you press the tool up into the spindle and they are cuts off. That’s when you know, you’re seated properly and you can press the clamp tool. Now, the controller also asks, another step after we’ve done a tool change even in manual tool change. Okay, just like when we did the spin to warm up at asks us to assign what cutter do we want to have in the spindle? I’m going to put tool number eight. So by clicking on the number, I can push 8 and then enter and you can see the h. Changes. Now once I push play all it does is a sign tool number eight in the spindle. So you see to on spindles 8 I can also see my tool field right here. Tool number 8, that’s what’s in the spindle. We’re going to use our manual controls to move the system over the corner or really close to the corner. You’ll kind of see this take place. So using those keyboard hotkeys that I showed you, let’s do that.”
10:54-11:35: “Now, you can kind of see, it’s pretty jumpy, just because I’m in, what’s called a constant jog, As Long As I push the button and hold it down. It will keep moving. So we’re going to use a more accurate way of moving the system. If you go back to the control sub screen, you have this button called Step. So if we click on step now every time you move the machine, it’s going to move this increment distance and you can always increase or decrease that number by pressing the plus or minus buttons right here. So if I push plus it goes up, A decimal point at time, or if I push it down, it goes down. I’m going to move .01 inches, which is ten thousandths of an inch per increment. I’m now going to split this beam over that bottom right corner.”
11:43-11:57: “Okay, so some of you may be able to see that but that’s the being being split over that bottom right corner. Okay. So the next step is right here. We have our axes and you can see have numbers on them. If we click the access button. It’s going to zero out that dro.”
12:01-12:26: “Okay, so we just do it to the two axes that we have lined up the X and the Y is zero. The job setup sheet says, we need the z0 to be in the top of the material. Okay. So let’s look again, where we had placed that. On the machine. So you can see here that we use just lining up the stopping block with the top surface of the table. Here is the same surface as the”
Setting Up the G-code and Running the Program (12:25-15:30)
12:23-12:59: “the table. Here is the same surface as the top of my part here. Okay, so we simply just need to place our Smart Tool pad. On our table, top surface and that will be our 0.4 this particular part in the vertical table and we need to switch the cutter out for the first tool. It’s the only cutter being used for this program. Is this inch and a quarter surfacing cutter on, that’s going to cut this tenon for us. So I’m going to put this and as a signed tool position to a number one. In the machine. We’re going to go back to Tool. And go manual tool. Change x y 0.”
13:03-13:07: “And then we’re going to we’re going to switch out our tool just like what we did previously.”
13:18-13:22: “Okay. So this time when I put the surface in Qatar, I’m going to assign it to Tool number one.”
13:28-13:37: “Now, we’ll push play. So now we can move the machine manually anywhere. We want in this case over the smart tool pad to line it up for the tool touch on procedure.”
13:46-14:17: “Now this is a little tip that I like to do for those that have the Auto Tool change. If you have a manual tool change system, a lot of the time like the Kent CNC brushes can be detached, so you can easily see a little bit better what’s going on in here, but in the controller for an auto tool change system, those brushes are pneumatic and so here we have a dust button and if we press that We can see those brushes are opened a little bit further. Now the lower we go down. The more. Those brushes will open for us. We can easily see what’s going on.”
14:23-14:29: “And once you get it relatively close you can just move the smart tool pad to get it directly on over the middle of the of the tool.”
14:35-14:59: “We have another sub screen sub. Yeah Sub menu called a smart tool will click on that, and here we have two different touch off methods. So we’re going to be using the multiple tool touch off. Now, be aware that once I press that button the spindle is going to start plunging, down to Chuck touch off my smart tool pad. Okay. This is why we align the cutter over the pad first before actually doing this sequence. So let’s press this.”
15:05-15:29: “Okay, so I think came and touched off the smart tool pad and then lift it up. And now, the controller Tells us another prompt same move. This marks will pad back to the home position and then we’ll press continue. So I’m going to move it back. We will press continue. Now that’s going to go touch off the smart tool pad a second time.”
Evaluating and Finishing the Part (15:30-18:10)
15:37-15:57: “Okay. So now we have successfully set up RX Ry and RZ axis. So, in the Delta software, we have to go to our program, sub screen to open up a file. I need to plug a flash drive in. So, there is a USB port here on the controller.”
16:05-16:07: “And now we can press open.”
16:10-16:57: “I’m go to my USB drive here. My g code files, will open our g code files, and the 10 and G-Code. I will open up that 10 in G-Code. So here we have tool number one in the spindle. Okay, and it’s probably difficult to see right here, but tool number one is actually the first cutter it calls for because tool number one is already in my spindle. It’s going to skip the first step, the tool change process because already thinks that that Tool is in the spindle itself. This is the same for manual tool change machines. But in this case, when we push play, it is going to skip the first step of that tool change sequence. It’s going to go directly to my tool touch off sequence with the smart tool pad and then two number three, which is X Y zero to start cutting. So let’s see what she does.”
18:07-18:10: “Okay, let me show you one cool trick at the”
Shutdown Procedures (18:10-20:08)
18:07-18:26: “Okay, let me show you one cool trick at the end of a program. If you just want to get the spindle all the way cause you can see here that obviously the cutter stops directly over the part and we go to our control sub screen. We have a button called safe XYZ and that will move the cutter out of the way and towards the middle of the frame.”
18:31-19:24: “And you can see that the Cutters now the way, and we can now evaluate the cuts and see how it fits with the mortise that we’ve prepped for this process. So this was a, it’s just a sample component of, let’s say the top of the leg. So, you’d have from here down would be the top section of the leg. It would transition maybe into a round section and then you’d have the rest of the lake. Well, let’s see how this fits. Just like that. Okay, if we were done for the day, just go down the simple shutdown procedure this time! Go back to the home screen. And instead of on this side. This is beginning of day routines. These are the end of day routines over here. Okay. So if we click put tool away in an audit tool, change is going to go drop off the tool. If it’s a manual tool change, it will come to the operator and ask you to take out the cutter. So we’re going to say put tool away.”
19:35-19:48: “Okay, and then to finish it off, we go park spindle. Okay? That puts it in a home location. And now we can just shut it down. Just go to the power switch of the at the front right corner of the machine.”
20:00-20:08: “May you guys have it. Okay, so from beginning to end startup full setup. I’m running a part to even shutdown procedures.”
