Machine definition setup

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In this lesson, we'll learn about machine definition setup.

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After completing this lesson, you'll be able to load a machine configuration and edit a machine configuration.

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In Fusion 360, we can carry on with our design or we can have a completely new untitled design.

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What we want to do from here is make sure that we're in the manufacture workspace, and we want to go to manage and take a look at our machine library.

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The machine library is a place where we can manage the machines that are used for our projects and create or edit new ones.

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If we take a look at this, I have a recent section but there's also a my machines and there's a Fusion 360 library.

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If we expand this, you'll notice that there are a lot of different machine manufacturers located here.

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I'm going to filter specifically by Haas and select the Haas UMC-750.

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Notice that it says only machines in my machine can be edited.

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So in order to make adjustments to this, we need to right click and copy it, and then we can go to my machines.

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And in this case, I'm going to go to the cloud, right click and paste that UMC-750.

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I need to save it as something, so I'm going to select Save.

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Once everything's been updated, you'll notice that we have the HaaS UMC-750 NGC which is the Next Gen Controller,

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and it also shows the post machinesimulation.CPS.

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If we want to make changes to this, we can right click and edit the machine.

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Right now it's a UMC-750 NGC.

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These are all the basic parameters but we can go through, and we can check things like the dimension, the weight of the machine,

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its capabilities; in this case milling, turning or cutting.

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As well as information about the number of tools that it can support in its tool changer.

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In this instance, I know that the default UMC-750 supports 30 plus one tools, meaning that it has 30 positions.

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And then you can have an additional tool in the spindle.

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So we can add those parameters based on the values that we have directly from the manufacturer.

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If we go down the list, you can see that there's information about the maximum work piece size,

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and all of these can be checked against the model or the information that we're trying to send to the machine.

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For example, in the Kinematic section for RB rotary.

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Now in the case of UMC-750, we have the travel of 120 degrees, and it can go at 50 degrees a second.

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If we take a look at this, that information is not populated here.

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So if we want to make sure that we understand how hard or how fast we're actually pushing the machine,

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we would want to make sure that we enter those values.

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You see that it does have the range here, it goes up to 120 degrees and -35.

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That's the range of the UMC-750.

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However, the values for things like the resolution, those are not in here.

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So as you begin to build your own machines,

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you want to check on these values to make sure that you are capturing things like the maximum travel in the X Y and Z Direction,

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information about the maximum spindle speed.

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So in this case, the UMC-750 is only going to go up to 8100 rpm.

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This means that if I have any tools that are currently set to go faster than that, for example, 10,000 rpm,

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then it's going to throw up a flag telling me that it exceeds a value that’s saved in this machine.

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So information about the machining time, coolant information about what it has available.

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And in this case, a lot of these things are often options.

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So while some machines might come with air through the tool, some might not have that option.

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For post processing, notice that the post is currently in the system location,

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but if you have a custom post, you can make sure that you assign it here.

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Right now by default, it's machine simulation, but we can go through here, and we can find the specific post that would be used for this machine.

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For example, if we look for the Haas, there's a Haas UMC-750 post.

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I want to make sure that I use that.

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And lastly in this case, we have multi-axis.

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In the multi-axis section, it allows for retract and reconfigure.

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This is an option that enables rewind on the machine.

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So this is a great option to make sure that you understand whether or not it's on or off.

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Also, adjust at singularities.

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So these are cases where you might be traveling through a point and the machine can either go a small amount to the next position

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or it can make a large movement in a short amount of time.

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So allowing it to adjust at the singularities,

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in this case, in the Haas next gen controller can be an important option that you want to make sure that you have turned on.

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There's also a linearization method option.

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We have some additional options and settings that we have here.

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TCP is on by default, which is our tool centerpoint control.

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And then the feed rate method is TCP.

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So again, these options, if they're included in your controller, you want to make sure that they're turned on.

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We're going to say ‘okay’.

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And now we've updated that UMC-750 based on our own settings and parameters.

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Of course, you could go through the specifications on a Haas website or the specific machine that you have,

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and make sure that you populate the entire thing.

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You have the basic information on the right hand side, telling you the capabilities, the dimensions and tool information.

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And once all this information is updated,

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it's a quick way for you to be able to see exactly what the specifications and capabilities of these machines are.

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Once it's done, saving your machine to the cloud, we can move on to the next lesson.