Flip Operation Problem

Damon Nabors · Post by **Damon Nabors** » Fri, Nov 30 2007, 3:33PM

I cut out my parts Monday and had to go out of town and did not finish the flip ops.

Came back out today and pulled the file back up and renested and rewrote the cnc file. Everything looked the same as before on the print out sheet.

I scanned my first flip with the HHScanner, and it was good. The second flip (these so far are 1/2\" backs) it run the tennon to the outside and stopped 4 or 5 inches short of the full length, then indexed over in the Y direction and tried to run the tennon but it was too far in the Y direction, never came into contact with the part. The third part, it run a full tennon on the outside tennon and then it moved over too far in the Y direction again. I stopped at this point. I have alot of parts still to go.

Any ideas, I sent the file to Thermwood, but no word yet. I was hoping to get these cases together this weekend and start installing Monday.

Damon

Forrest Chapman · Post by **Forrest Chapman** » Fri, Nov 30 2007, 3:46PM

Damon,

You didn't need to rewrite the code just pull the old cnc program up and go to the flipops at the end of the program. Now you have probably got a few parts that are mixed up and will have to read the label and match to the part in the program.

Forrest

Damon Nabors · Post by **Damon Nabors** » Fri, Nov 30 2007, 4:56PM

Damon Nabors · Post by **Damon Nabors** » Fri, Nov 30 2007, 5:26PM

Well, it after 4:00 in Dale, In. I guess everyone went home for the weekend and I am SOL, they never called back.

I looked at the nest print outs from Monday vs today and they are the same. I did not reprint the 190 labels to see if they are the same. I wonder if the bar codes changed. I scrolled down to the flip ops in the program and the bar code numbers are the same but maybe in another order now. I will try printing the labels again to see it they changed. If that doesn't solve the problem, I guess I will try

Everyone have a great weekend and be carefull,

Damon

P.S. Looks like the old DADO BLADE may be coming out of retirement.

Forrest Chapman · Post by **Forrest Chapman** » Fri, Nov 30 2007, 5:27PM

Slow deep breaths. Its happened to all of us probably. It really shouldn't take that long to sort thru.

Damon Nabors · Post by **Damon Nabors** » Fri, Nov 30 2007, 5:38PM

Forrest, is it Beer thirty yet???

Are you saying that it is possible the bar codes are in a different orientation now?

Thanks for the information Forrest.

Damon

Damon Nabors · Post by **Damon Nabors** » Fri, Nov 30 2007, 5:58PM

Ok, I re-printed the bar codes and they are indeed different. Scanned the new bar code and everything is A-OK now.

It would have been nice to have known this at 12:30 today rather than 5:00pm, but hey, we don't do it for the money, we do it for the glory.

Another hour or two in the shop now and I can call it quits.

Post by **Jason Susnjara** » Thu, Dec 06 2007, 8:49AM

Hi Damon,

Everytime you write the cnc, the labels will be different. Also when you write the cnc file, it automatically saves that cnc file to your controller so that you can load it back up unless you overwrote it. Then you will need to print the labels again and scan them. Sorry no one was here to solve your problem, we had our company Christmas party that night and I would imagine that some employees went home early. Glad you solved the problem.

Damon Nabors · Post by **Damon Nabors** » Thu, Dec 06 2007, 2:02PM

Thanks Jason, That was the first time we nested anything larger than 5 or 6 sheets and we loaded it late in the afternoon and did not finish. Just was not sure about the proper procedure when reloading to finish the job. But I do now. Learn things the hard way and you will always remember. At least we have not crashed the machine yet.