Use multiple WCS offsets

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In this lesson, we'll use multiple WCS offsets.

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After completing this lesson, you'll be able to use WCS offsets to use multiple coordinate systems in a mill.

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In Fusion 360, we want to carry on with our multi-axis multiple setups.

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What I want to talk about now is posting the same setup with multiple WCS coordinates.

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We've already seen how we can output a single setup with G54, G55 and how we can post both at the same time.

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But the next thing that I want to do is explore the settings that we have for outputting the single setup multiple times.

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So first, we're going to exit the setup, go to our Post Process tab and now we're going to add "Multiple WCS Offsets".

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For this case, we're going to add three instances and we're going to increment them each one at a time.

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It's important to note that we're starting at WCS offset 1, which is still G54, but it's going to be critical as both 0 and 1 are both G54 references.

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So we're starting at 1 and we're going to output a WCS offset of 2 and 3.

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Once those are set, we can go ahead in Post Process using our same Haas pre NGC post processor and overwrite the code that's already saved here.

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Now, when we take a look at this reference, we should see that our first 2D contour is referencing G54.

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As we go down to our code, we need to have our drilling and our tapping operations and our second 2D contour is now referencing G55.

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Once again we'll go down through, we have our drilling and tapping operations and our third 2D contour is referencing G56.

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So this is a great way for us if we have a machine that has a palette setup or multiple fixtures that are located on the table,

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will be able to setup our multiple coordinate systems in the machine controller,

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output a single NC file and allow us to machine multiple parts at the same time.

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We'll have to note that when we use this method, we're running the entire first setup,

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then we're moving on to the next part and then to the third part.

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This means that we're going to be machining a 2D contour with tool number 5, then drilling and then tapping.

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Now obviously, that's not the most efficient way because we're going to go through these tool changes three different times.

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But there are other ways that we can explore patterning these different toolpaths.

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For this example, let's go ahead and save it before we move on to the next step.