Poll Do you Square up your Fixture/Part to your machine?

[Paul Sarrach]

How often do you square up your Fixture/Part true to the Machine axis?

100% of the time
75% of the time
50% of the time
Never

[AJDean]

Have to say never. I measure co-extruded Fuel Tanks and have to put their +Z to the CMM -Y otherwise I'd never get around them to measure all the features.

[Andrew Gardner]

I try to get the workpiece as square to the machine as I can. I keep a fixture on the machine at all times that I indicate square before clamping. Everything else comes off of that. My jog box is the older model that doesn't have the options of moving square to the part or alignment.

[\v/inston]

try to get it reasonably square because your tip angles may not work out as originally intended if your part is skewed.

EDIT: paul when you create a new post there is an option for a poll where people can actually vote on the answers.

also, you are double and triple posting again

[Wes Cisco]

almost always

I would say something like 95% of the time. If no effort is made to square the part to machine axis it is because it is a round part standing on end with no rotational features. Not many of those, but a few.

[george frick]

i use the 1/4-20 tapped holes in the rayco plate to get it close then let the computerized alignment take over. as far as indicating it in the "old fashioned way" w/in .0001. never. those days are long gone.

[Rick Coleman]

Just give the RAYCO plate the hairy eyeball and thumb alignment. That's close enough for the machine to do the rest.

[J Temmen]

I also use a RAYCO plate the majority of the time. I generally square it up to the threaded inserts in my plate, it's close enough to square so that my 90° probes are square to my workpiece.

[MJBolster]

Squaring to the X-Y makes probing some features much easier.

[Marty Schwab]

Rayco

I am also on the rayco plate band waggon now. And i love it no more 2 faced tape and strap clamps.



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[Duckhunter]

SquareD

Probably 50-50. Like posted previously if there are tip angle changes...a must, we dont have rayco plate or similiar...Run the probe in the axis' to get it as close as I can.

[Scott Gooch]

[QUOTE=Paul Sarrach]How often do you square up your Fixture/Part true to the Machine axis?

I use a Rayco system, and have a 90° corner bolted to the plate. I use it as much as possible to give myself the maximum shank clearance in features of depth. I still do mathematical alignments with measured features.

[John Kingston]

98% of the time. Sometimes I'll purposely lay a part crooked to prove to a machinist that my alignment works.

[Schrocknroll]

Most of our parts are round, but they do have holes in them. I usually eyeball the 1st hole to X plus position, but I don't spend too much time on it.

[Sl33stak]

Ta da..........

This what I use.http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/2074/tablejig9hh.jpg