John, if you use a centerline in the middle of your part and when you dimension you put your mouse on the opposite side of the centerline that the part is on, you can dimension the diameter! Would love to see a video on your lathe library and how you set it up!
Nice work John. I too just started playing with HSM for our HAAS ST10 lathe at the college. It's so cool and I've got the lathe humming now. The post isn't 100% yet, as it keeps using an M22 code (tailstock retract). I didn't worry about doing the axis and reference point. As I used the plane that matched the SW axis and drew my profile and revolved it there. It was really quick and simple. Cheers, Aaron (Melb, Aust).
Scott Moyse Oh wow, now that's what I call service. I post a comment on John's RUclips channel and my CAD-CAM agent (CADPRO Systems) reads it and fixes the problem. Much appreciated Scott. Cheers, Aaron.
I've had only a few ID crashes. One big one was when I was proving out each block of the program and had a position move at the end. So as I went along programming and running each part of the program everything went well. Hit the go button and got through most of the part then got to the ID roughing, went well, then onto the finishing. After the ID finishing op occurred I had forgotten to program an exit line and the boring bar went diagonally out of the part. I loudly made a "I got punched in the gut" type of noise and heard "what broke?" from the boss. Lesson learned...those position moves are important, haha. Been a few years now since anything like that has happened (knock on wood.) I actually started out CNC on a lathe. Easier to wrap your head around it when you start on them I guess in terms of manually programming. Either way I understand your anxiety regarding boring on an NC machine since I once had it, although the job isn't going to wait. Cheers!
the mouse gesture function in sketcher and view window is also fast and easy. in the customize tab, look for enable 8 gestures. then in view or sketcher, just hold the right mouse button and drag from any point out like in any direction like a clock dial. a window pops up and you can see what is at every 1/8 of a clock dial. it becomes fast and easy.
Great Video. Really enjoy seeing the lathe at work. I think Autodesk is lacking in the "rest machining" area. Doesn't work very well with Inventor or F360
I NEED HELP WITH THE TIP TANGENT DEAL ON FUSION 360, AND THE POST I DOWNLOADED FOR THE ST20Y WORKS BUT NEEDS ALOT WORK. WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS HELPS THANK YOU , IVE ALWAYS DONE MILLS PROGRAMMING AND RUNNING , PAST 3 WEEKS IVE BEEN TRYING TO GET THIS MACHINE GOING.
How were you able to configure your machine during the job set up? (Choosing what machine you're using and then actually setting up that machine in HSM?) Any tips for setting up a lathe in HSM with live tooling as well?
I just recreated your part here in Fusion 360 and didn't have any problem with the boring. Not sure what's going on there for you. Something doesn't look right to me with the orientation of your tool though. Looks like the insert is pointed out of the part instead of in toward it? Boring did take a while to figure out the first time I tried it though. Especially having to adjust the radii as you pointed out.
Search the solidworks help website for "using centerlines to create radial and diametric dimensions" so that you don't have to divide each dimension by 2 and it just uses it as a diameter instead of a radius.
+NYC CNC ;-) I discovered this recently as well, totally by accident - depending on where you hover the mouse after selecting the two lines, it either does a radius or diameter dimension about the centerline, pretty neat!
+NYC CNC ya you shouldn't have to do math to get your dimensions unless its function. its just an error waiting to happen. man you got to try and use functions, its so cool.
Hi john, I love your videos, have been following them from the start. Have you tried a 3D mouse with Fusion360? I just got one the other day and it's so fast moving around your models, it's amazing how much more intuitive and interactive it feels.
John, if you use a centerline in the middle of your part and when you dimension you put your mouse on the opposite side of the centerline that the part is on, you can dimension the diameter! Would love to see a video on your lathe library and how you set it up!
Nice work John. I too just started playing with HSM for our HAAS ST10 lathe at the college. It's so cool and I've got the lathe humming now. The post isn't 100% yet, as it keeps using an M22 code (tailstock retract). I didn't worry about doing the axis and reference point. As I used the plane that matched the SW axis and drew my profile and revolved it there. It was really quick and simple. Cheers, Aaron (Melb, Aust).
+DCTTeacher1 You have a new Haas turning post in your inbox.
Scott Moyse Oh wow, now that's what I call service. I post a comment on John's RUclips channel and my CAD-CAM agent (CADPRO Systems) reads it and fixes the problem. Much appreciated Scott. Cheers, Aaron.
I've had only a few ID crashes. One big one was when I was proving out each block of the program and had a position move at the end. So as I went along programming and running each part of the program everything went well. Hit the go button and got through most of the part then got to the ID roughing, went well, then onto the finishing. After the ID finishing op occurred I had forgotten to program an exit line and the boring bar went diagonally out of the part. I loudly made a "I got punched in the gut" type of noise and heard "what broke?" from the boss. Lesson learned...those position moves are important, haha. Been a few years now since anything like that has happened (knock on wood.)
I actually started out CNC on a lathe. Easier to wrap your head around it when you start on them I guess in terms of manually programming. Either way I understand your anxiety regarding boring on an NC machine since I once had it, although the job isn't going to wait. Cheers!
the mouse gesture function in sketcher and view window is also fast and easy.
in the customize tab, look for enable 8 gestures.
then in view or sketcher, just hold the right mouse button and drag from any point out like in any direction like a clock dial.
a window pops up and you can see what is at every 1/8 of a clock dial.
it becomes fast and easy.
How about a fusion 360 ID boring video? You're the man!
Great Video. Really enjoy seeing the lathe at work.
I think Autodesk is lacking in the "rest machining" area. Doesn't work very well with Inventor or F360
I NEED HELP WITH THE TIP TANGENT DEAL ON FUSION 360, AND THE POST I DOWNLOADED FOR THE ST20Y WORKS BUT NEEDS ALOT WORK. WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS HELPS THANK YOU , IVE ALWAYS DONE MILLS PROGRAMMING AND RUNNING , PAST 3 WEEKS IVE BEEN TRYING TO GET THIS MACHINE GOING.
How were you able to configure your machine during the job set up? (Choosing what machine you're using and then actually setting up that machine in HSM?) Any tips for setting up a lathe in HSM with live tooling as well?
I just recreated your part here in Fusion 360 and didn't have any problem with the boring. Not sure what's going on there for you. Something doesn't look right to me with the orientation of your tool though. Looks like the insert is pointed out of the part instead of in toward it? Boring did take a while to figure out the first time I tried it though. Especially having to adjust the radii as you pointed out.
Search the solidworks help website for "using centerlines to create radial and diametric dimensions" so that you don't have to divide each dimension by 2 and it just uses it as a diameter instead of a radius.
+NYC CNC ;-) I discovered this recently as well, totally by accident - depending on where you hover the mouse after selecting the two lines, it either does a radius or diameter dimension about the centerline, pretty neat!
+NYC CNC ya you shouldn't have to do math to get your dimensions unless its function. its just an error waiting to happen. man you got to try and use functions, its so cool.
+attainableapex I was going to post this too!
If you sketch a construction line in the center of your sketch, you can use diametral dimensions in your sketch.
Hi john, I love your videos, have been following them from the start. Have you tried a 3D mouse with Fusion360? I just got one the other day and it's so fast moving around your models, it's amazing how much more intuitive and interactive it feels.
hey!! any specific reason you switched from Solidworks to Fusion ?
great video!
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