easystone question

[DavidL]

I am trying to find out if there is a way in Easystone using CMS Brembana's to have the tooling slow down going into interior corners? On my intermac it was handled automatically. I would think that it can be done and that we jsut dont know how currently.

Thanks!

[Jqualey4130]

In Machine, apply your tool path to the edges you want profiles. Right click on your inside corner. A little box should pop up that will ask you to adjust the feed. Enter the value you want, close the box and unhighlight the line. When I ran non-bladed breakers, I would break the line a few inches before the inside corner and have it slow down before the corner.

[Cevin Moberly]

David,

There is also a parameter on the NC that controls look ahead and computes the decell when heading into a significant direction change. this is a universal parameter and will slow down all tools on all corners. Let me know if you want to look at this, I'll have someone call you.

Cevin

[DavidL]

Cevin - I think we will want to go over that. I want to get Bill and Josh on a conf call with whoever we should speak with on setting this up. What do you suggest? Feel free to email me if needed to schedule a call.

Justin - I printed off your instructions and gave it to one of my programmers to try. Ill post updates.

THANKS!

[Jqualey4130]

Feel free to give me a ring if you need any more explaining.

[DavidL]

Thanks Justin. I am going to see how my guys adapt to it. I will yell if I need some help!!

[Camzl1]

What size interior radius are you referring to? When we switched years ago from 2.5 to 3 on all inside corners we never have to slow down even with 120mm shape tools. You also may not have look ahead turned on by default which can be added to the easystone post If further testing shows that it would be useful. Their is also AI nano control it just might not be an option on the older machines but we can always check to see if the parameters are there for it. Always backup your parameters before making any changes just in case.I have the parameters for both to check also. The machine controllers are so good at change of direction now a days that the slow downs I have seen in their default states really don't slow down that much. Just aroun 5-10" slower. The other thing to look at is that with fingerbits you don't want to slow down too much as you can glaze them over from this feature. So when you adjust the federate clamping parameter I personally would shoot for no more than a 20% decrease of the programmed federate. Jack Faas at CMS is excellent at this stuff.

[DavidL]

Thanks Eric. Whats driving the question is my desire to polish the sink cutouts that we do send to the CNC. After having Justin mention about two months ago the numbers he's getting off of his sawjet compared to ours, I am trying to find my bottleneck. So I am playing with what do I want accomplished on the sawjet, the cnc, and by hand. Also working through what type of workflow should I be preparing for and what can I do in a synchronous manner versus batch.

We are running an apartment job right now that is giving me great daily numbers off the sawjet as I am not having to do sink cutouts (all drop ins). Im running 80% of the edgework through the splash machine and my bottleneck has turned into rounding of corners and rolling the top and bottom edges over. Never thought I would back up my polishers with such a menial task, but I am. On the days that we are cutting those jobs combined with our normal production I am seeing multiple times where I have cut over 900 finished sf in 12hrs. I liek those numbers but without sinks involved I can see why I am getting there.

[Camzl1]

Ok. Yeah if there is one area that I had to polish on the machine and give up on everything else it would be the sink. So also is your radius of sink a limitation and the guys are actually grinding the corners? If so straight sinks can be polished on your machine with an aggregate if those machines have the fourth axes. A little more involved in programming but nothing you can't figure out. Cevin has a video of it in the CMS room. Of course it's just the flat portion getting polished or we can teach your guys how to get a very good T profile off the machine polished with 40mm tooling. Sounds like we need to weigh out your options give me a call tomorrow.