Understand work offsets

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In this video, will use work offsets.

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After completing this step, you'll be able to identify work coordinate offsets.

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Use multiple wcs and use post process.

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Infusion 360, we want to carry on with a couple of for CNC mill.

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At this point, we've created all the operations in op too and we want to talk about ways in which we can pattern them to the other two positions.

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What I want to do here is I want to edit up to and I want to navigate to my post process.

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Inside of here we have an option to turn on multiple wCS offsets.

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The number of instances in our case is going to be three which represent the three separate positions.

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And then what we want to do is we want to talk about the WCS increments.

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Each time it's going to increment one, which means that the wCS offset number is going to change by one.

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In this case when we're talking about a Haas mill, we're going to be using one for G 54 to Fergie 55

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What that means is that we can program those coordinates system locations inside of our machine,

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and we're going to post code that references all three of those.

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This is important because it allows more flexibility between the positions of your parts.

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In this instance, we have three positions on a set of soft jaws so we know the exact location of the center of all the parts

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but if we were putting these on a pallet system or potentially we were using multiple vices on a table,

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that aren't necessarily an exact distance apart, we can use probing or we can set up these locations inside of the controller.

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What we want to do here is we want to validate this by going to actions and post process.

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We want to make sure that we're using a house next gen control and we're going to post this out as program 1006 and select post.

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I'm going to save and I'm going to replace one that I've already have in the folder and now I want to take a look at the coordinate systems.

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So right now, adaptive three is referencing G54.

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I'm going to do a control f to find G55 And notice that adaptive three also has one referencing G55.

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I'm also going to reference G56 notice that adaptive three has a G56.

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If we go back and we take a look at our second operation, we've got 2D contour.

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When we take a look at G55 And we look at our second instance, we've got 2D contour.

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So each of these operations are being replicated at the different coordinate system locations.

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So this is a great way for us to export our code,

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out for each of these different locations and gives us the flexibility of setting those up on our machine.

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Again, there are two different ways that we can do this and that's with N.C. pattern or by using the wcs offsets,

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which one you choose is going to be based on your geometry requirements.

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If you've got multiple parts that are located in a fixture at the same ideal locations, then a pattern might be the best option.

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If you're using a WCS offset because you have limited access to the fixed locations of those parts,

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you can still change the operation, order by tool,

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by operation or to preserve the order, just like you could in a pattern.

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So keep in mind that both of these options do you have pros and cons based on what you're doing,

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and just try to understand what each of them implies when you're setting them up.

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At this point, let's make sure that we save before moving on.