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? And I mean the old fashion way.

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

[cmmguy]

How often do you square up your Fixture/Part true to the Machine axis? And I mean the old fashion way.

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

Every time. Use the touch probe...

[craiger_ny]

My fixtures are as squre to the machine as the bolt pattern on the granite. In cases where it needs to be in better I use the ruby as an indicator so to speak to squre a part in. I do not indicate anything in.

[JamesMannes]

100% of the time.

I also use an "L" shaped bracket bolted to two holes to shove a vise into the corner of. It aids in squaring non-dedicated fixtures.

[bw_bob]

We have a bar that runs across the front granite bolt pattern of the table. If i use a fixture i'm usually running multiple parts & have a loop in the program, but i always set the fixture up the 1st run...always

[Cincinnati Andy]

I use a Rayco plate and fixturing system so like Craiger my stuff is pretty square by default however I do have a few programs that I use adjustors to get offset datum -A- locations as close as possible.

[John Riggins]

We always square things up as close as needed to avoid shanking. No need to get closer than that.

[#2#]

On a part that it is possible to square up, I square it up. I use the bolt holes in the plate for most stuff. On stuff that needs to be better, I have a section of code that I copy and past in. It prompts you to measure a line and if the vector is too far off, it prompts you to rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise depending on how far off the vector is. Then it goes back to the beginning and you do it all over again. Doing it this way I can get it so the vector is .99999 or greater.

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

WTF? Reviving a thread that is a YEAR AND A HALF (minus 2 days) OLD?

[#2#]

Dang it! He suckered us all! I think the key was he found an old thread with only the opening post. I even looked back to make sure it was current. Must've only looked back to the second post.

[Wes Cisco]

WTF? Reviving a thread that is a YEAR AND A HALF (minus 2 days) OLD?

Once bitten. . .?

[bw_bob]

WTF? Reviving a thread that is a YEAR AND A HALF (minus 2 days) OLD?

OMG...... cmmguy got us.

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Once bitten. . .?

Lucky bhastard!

[STANLEY]

I think it calls for a beer.

[Paul Sarrach]

Whiskey
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