WEBVTT 00:00:23.276 --> 00:00:24.342 In this video 00:00:24.342 --> 00:00:26.746 we're going to take a look at the screens. 00:00:26.746 --> 00:00:29.096 And this will just a a general over view of the screens 00:00:29.096 --> 00:00:31.776 just so that people are a little bit more comfortable 00:00:31.776 --> 00:00:34.255 with all the controls that are on them. 00:00:34.255 --> 00:00:36.927 I get a lot on comments about complexity of the screens 00:00:36.927 --> 00:00:39.683 but they're really not overly complex 00:00:39.683 --> 00:00:41.537 and they follow a general rule of 00:00:41.537 --> 00:00:42.988 if you don't know what it is 00:00:42.988 --> 00:00:44.538 don't click it, don't use it. 00:00:44.538 --> 00:00:46.658 Eventually you'll come to an eureka moment 00:00:46.658 --> 00:00:47.807 where you say ahh 00:00:47.807 --> 00:00:50.047 that's what that control was for. 00:00:50.047 --> 00:00:52.548 That's a natural progression in using any program 00:00:52.548 --> 00:00:55.569 and especially so in MACH 3. 00:00:55.569 --> 00:00:57.855 So lets take a look at the screens pay attention 00:00:57.855 --> 00:01:00.039 when I use certain terminology. 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:02.789 Um, it saves a lot of support time, 00:01:02.789 --> 00:01:04.609 If you send me an email 00:01:04.609 --> 00:01:07.610 saying the number thingy on X isn't displaying properly 00:01:07.610 --> 00:01:09.182 it's just going to cause an email 00:01:09.182 --> 00:01:12.750 to come back to you saying do you mean the DRO? 00:01:12.750 --> 00:01:14.610 You'll see a lot of people on the group 00:01:14.610 --> 00:01:16.860 correcting people's terminology at times. 00:01:16.860 --> 00:01:19.600 They're not doing it to be mean they're actually doing it because 00:01:19.600 --> 00:01:22.152 it's a lot easier to convey information between us all 00:01:22.152 --> 00:01:27.162 if we use a standardized terminology at least. 00:01:27.162 --> 00:01:28.281 That having been said, 00:01:28.281 --> 00:01:30.362 lets take a look at the screens. 00:01:30.362 --> 00:01:32.451 Here we are on the program run screen. 00:01:32.451 --> 00:01:34.852 There are 6 screens across the top 00:01:34.852 --> 00:01:36.509 you can see we have program run 00:01:36.509 --> 00:01:37.892 which is where we are. 00:01:37.892 --> 00:01:42.002 We have an MDI or Manual Data Input screen. 00:01:42.002 --> 00:01:43.242 We have a Toolpath screen 00:01:43.242 --> 00:01:46.223 which is good for looking at whatever Toolpath you have loaded 00:01:46.223 --> 00:01:48.763 and seeing what its program limits 00:01:48.763 --> 00:01:50.653 and so on are. 00:01:50.653 --> 00:01:52.073 We have an Offset screen 00:01:52.073 --> 00:01:54.565 which you can use to 00:01:54.565 --> 00:01:56.285 set your offset systems. 00:01:56.285 --> 00:02:01.014 Here you can see we can switch from G 54 to G 55 and G 56. 00:02:01.015 --> 00:02:04.044 You'll notice that the buttons do nothing 00:02:04.044 --> 00:02:05.035 many times 00:02:05.035 --> 00:02:07.715 unless we rest condition. 00:02:07.715 --> 00:02:11.245 When we're reset suddenly things began to work. 00:02:11.245 --> 00:02:13.896 The control internally does not like to do many things 00:02:13.896 --> 00:02:16.036 if it's not in a safe condition. 00:02:16.036 --> 00:02:18.936 Switching coordinates systems is one of them. 00:02:18.936 --> 00:02:20.127 We'll go into this later 00:02:20.127 --> 00:02:22.467 so that you understand what those all are. 00:02:22.467 --> 00:02:23.727 We have a setting screen 00:02:23.727 --> 00:02:26.517 which is a bit messy and the last screen to be cleaned up. 00:02:26.517 --> 00:02:28.597 It has special items on it 00:02:28.597 --> 00:02:30.558 for specific types of uses 00:02:30.558 --> 00:02:32.787 tangential knife control, 00:02:32.787 --> 00:02:39.157 we have feed rate controls and CV controls for plasma tables 00:02:39.157 --> 00:02:40.978 and various controls some of these 00:02:40.978 --> 00:02:42.197 will go away very shortly 00:02:42.197 --> 00:02:45.098 and other will be just a simply cleaned up. 00:02:45.098 --> 00:02:47.379 We have the Diagnostic screen 00:02:47.379 --> 00:02:50.729 which everyone is familiar with from the previous 00:02:50.729 --> 00:02:52.098 videos. 00:02:52.098 --> 00:02:55.099 This is probably the most important section up here 00:02:55.099 --> 00:02:57.929 that shows you the LEDs that you have. 00:02:57.929 --> 00:03:03.360 Um,LEDs represent the signals that you have connected to the system. 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:05.280 You can see that they're all out on mine 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:06.519 and they should be. 00:03:06.519 --> 00:03:07.661 If I press a home switch 00:03:07.661 --> 00:03:10.830 you'll see that the home light switch comes on 00:03:10.830 --> 00:03:14.311 and if I release the home switch it goes out. 00:03:14.311 --> 00:03:16.312 That's the normal operation on these LEDs 00:03:16.312 --> 00:03:18.961 typically you'll have none of these on 00:03:18.961 --> 00:03:21.072 when the signals are not active 00:03:21.072 --> 00:03:24.672 and the program's in a normal run time state. 00:03:24.672 --> 00:03:27.091 Normally the only thing you'll see flashing around 00:03:27.091 --> 00:03:29.722 when you're not moving is this time in interrupt DRO 00:03:29.722 --> 00:03:32.332 which shows the number of micro seconds that the driver 00:03:32.332 --> 00:03:33.802 is currently spending on each 00:03:33.802 --> 00:03:36.544 interaction through its interrupt cycle. 00:03:36.544 --> 00:03:39.312 I don't expect many of you to understand what I just said. 00:03:39.312 --> 00:03:41.373 Just take it from me that this number should 00:03:41.373 --> 00:03:43.453 be flashing and it's quite normal. 00:03:43.453 --> 00:03:46.144 It should be less than 15 on all systems 00:03:46.144 --> 00:03:48.544 and you can see mine flashes between 00:03:48.544 --> 00:03:51.234 about 6 micro seconds and 4 micro seconds, 00:03:51.234 --> 00:03:54.134 depending on how much house keeping needs to be done 00:03:54.134 --> 00:03:56.154 at that particular interrupt. 00:03:56.154 --> 00:03:59.835 Lets go back to our program run screen. 00:03:59.835 --> 00:04:03.595 This box here is the G code display box, 00:04:03.595 --> 00:04:06.314 you can see that if we load a um, 00:04:06.314 --> 00:04:08.285 a G code file. 00:04:08.285 --> 00:04:11.915 I'm just gonna go to the MACH 3 folder into my G code 00:04:11.915 --> 00:04:13.855 there's examples. 00:04:13.855 --> 00:04:17.907 There's the famous Roadrunner file that I always use as an example 00:04:17.907 --> 00:04:19.776 and you can see that the file is listed 00:04:19.776 --> 00:04:22.916 here in the G code display window. 00:04:22.916 --> 00:04:26.707 By clicking into the window 00:04:26.707 --> 00:04:29.078 we can scroll with our mouse wheel 00:04:29.078 --> 00:04:31.028 one line at a time, 00:04:31.028 --> 00:04:33.338 through the program. 00:04:33.338 --> 00:04:34.998 And you'll see over here 00:04:34.998 --> 00:04:36.908 we have a white dot 00:04:36.908 --> 00:04:39.398 that represents this single line of G code 00:04:39.398 --> 00:04:40.948 and as I scroll you can see 00:04:40.948 --> 00:04:43.519 the white dot moving. 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:46.319 Sometimes it'll disappear and this usually is 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.709 because it's to small to display on that particular line. 00:04:49.709 --> 00:04:52.359 But this is a handy feature for scrolling back through 00:04:52.359 --> 00:04:57.039 and finding a troublesome spot on your code. 00:04:57.039 --> 00:05:01.580 Clicking once again will take you out of focus for that window. 00:05:01.580 --> 00:05:03.100 The Toolpath window itself 00:05:03.100 --> 00:05:04.050 double clicking 00:05:04.050 --> 00:05:06.250 will reset it to a plain 00:05:06.250 --> 00:05:08.160 and reset it to a size. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:10.410 The red box going around our Toolpath 00:05:10.410 --> 00:05:12.511 is simply the extrema of the file 00:05:12.511 --> 00:05:13.641 these are the 00:05:13.641 --> 00:05:14.781 the program is tell you 00:05:14.781 --> 00:05:17.272 this is the highest Y value you have, 00:05:17.272 --> 00:05:19.293 the lowest Y value, 00:05:19.293 --> 00:05:20.622 the minimum X, 00:05:20.622 --> 00:05:22.902 and the maximum X values. 00:05:22.902 --> 00:05:24.906 We can take a closer look at that Toolpath 00:05:24.906 --> 00:05:27.571 by going into the Toolpath window. 00:05:27.571 --> 00:05:30.016 Now you can see once I've clicked in the window 00:05:30.016 --> 00:05:34.193 if I rotate my mouse I'm zooming in with my mouse wheel 00:05:34.193 --> 00:05:36.577 and zooming out. 00:05:36.577 --> 00:05:38.613 Double clicking resets us. 00:05:38.613 --> 00:05:41.158 You can see the dash lines are rapid moves 00:05:41.158 --> 00:05:43.568 between cutting segments. 00:05:43.568 --> 00:05:47.269 The dark blue lines are actual G 1 feed lines 00:05:47.269 --> 00:05:52.149 and if there were light blue lines here those would be G 2 or G 3 arcs. 00:05:52.164 --> 00:05:54.944 You can rotate it by clicking in it and rotating around 00:05:54.944 --> 00:05:58.175 again if you get lost double click and you're back to normal. 00:05:58.175 --> 00:06:00.831 If you hold down the shift key 00:06:00.831 --> 00:06:02.565 and move your mouse back and forth 00:06:02.565 --> 00:06:06.676 you can slowly zoom in and out on the picture. 00:06:06.676 --> 00:06:09.436 And by clicking down your right mouse button 00:06:09.436 --> 00:06:11.996 and moving the mouse you can pan it around 00:06:11.996 --> 00:06:13.215 and those can be combined 00:06:13.215 --> 00:06:17.697 you can zoom in and pan on the zoom. 00:06:17.697 --> 00:06:21.297 We also have a mode called jog follow, 00:06:21.297 --> 00:06:28.477 which resets the drawing so that you can jog it around 00:06:28.477 --> 00:06:30.297 and actually see where you are going 00:06:30.297 --> 00:06:32.417 from the jog. 00:06:32.417 --> 00:06:34.309 I'm going to switch us to 00:06:34.309 --> 00:06:37.848 a normal jog mode here. 00:06:43.598 --> 00:06:48.290 Now when ever you zero DROs 00:06:48.290 --> 00:06:50.089 these are the DROs by the way, 00:06:50.089 --> 00:06:51.780 digital read outs, 00:06:51.780 --> 00:06:54.599 this yellow line, two yellow lines 00:06:54.599 --> 00:06:57.081 shows the X and the Y axes intersecting. 00:06:57.081 --> 00:07:00.541 So at this moment my tool is centered 00:07:00.541 --> 00:07:03.090 somewhere up around this roadrunners foot. 00:07:03.090 --> 00:07:06.851 If I jog my axis you can see that the drawing 00:07:06.851 --> 00:07:10.041 moves to show where the tool is currently at 00:07:10.041 --> 00:07:12.071 when I'm in jog follow mode. 00:07:12.071 --> 00:07:14.931 If I turn off jog follow mode 00:07:14.931 --> 00:07:18.701 the lines move to show you where you would be 00:07:18.701 --> 00:07:22.132 again double clicking will reset the system. 00:07:22.132 --> 00:07:25.102 If you zero DROs 00:07:25.102 --> 00:07:28.663 you could just see that those lines moved to the zero point 00:07:28.663 --> 00:07:31.352 or the origin point of this piece. 00:07:31.352 --> 00:07:32.393 It's important though 00:07:32.393 --> 00:07:34.137 when ever you zero DROs 00:07:34.137 --> 00:07:36.334 that you do a Regen of the Toolpath 00:07:36.334 --> 00:07:39.284 so that the system recoordinates the Toolpath display 00:07:39.284 --> 00:07:42.344 with actual coordinate positions. 00:07:42.344 --> 00:07:43.829 When you're running a file 00:07:43.829 --> 00:07:46.904 here we have a cycle start button, 00:07:46.904 --> 00:07:48.164 when you're running a file 00:07:48.164 --> 00:07:53.294 it will draw in green and show you as it cuts that particular path. 00:07:53.294 --> 00:07:55.164 Clicking once on the image at any time 00:07:55.164 --> 00:07:56.765 will clear away that green line 00:07:56.765 --> 00:07:59.035 so that you can see 00:07:59.035 --> 00:08:02.455 a little bit clearer in case it's obscuring your view. 00:08:02.455 --> 00:08:06.146 We have a feed hold button, 00:08:06.146 --> 00:08:08.816 which as you can see stop the movement 00:08:08.816 --> 00:08:11.336 showed us what the next line is 00:08:11.336 --> 00:08:13.296 and from there we can hit cycle start 00:08:13.296 --> 00:08:15.227 and continue. 00:08:15.227 --> 00:08:18.177 Or once feed held 00:08:18.177 --> 00:08:21.776 we could for example, hit reverse 00:08:21.776 --> 00:08:24.878 and the program beings to run backwards. 00:08:24.878 --> 00:08:27.678 Hitting feed hold will turn off the reverse mode, 00:08:27.678 --> 00:08:29.978 hitting cycle start will go forward again. 00:08:29.978 --> 00:08:31.768 Reverse is handy for plasma people, 00:08:31.768 --> 00:08:33.608 it's not real handy for mill 00:08:33.608 --> 00:08:36.447 although it is used by some. 00:08:36.447 --> 00:08:39.098 Stop of course, stops the program; 00:08:39.098 --> 00:08:40.589 stop will stop a program, 00:08:40.589 --> 00:08:43.019 hitting the escape button will stop a program, 00:08:43.019 --> 00:08:47.939 and hitting reset will stop a program. 00:08:47.939 --> 00:08:51.120 We also have an edit G code button, 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.369 which will bring up an editor, 00:08:53.369 --> 00:08:55.580 so that we can edit and change anything 00:08:55.580 --> 00:08:57.770 in the code that we wish. 00:08:57.770 --> 00:08:59.020 Closing the editor 00:08:59.020 --> 00:09:00.880 will automatically reload the file 00:09:00.880 --> 00:09:05.241 and display any changes that you've made. 00:09:05.241 --> 00:09:08.291 We can close a G code file with this button. 00:09:08.291 --> 00:09:10.251 We can load G code files with this button 00:09:10.251 --> 00:09:11.942 but we have a recent file button 00:09:11.942 --> 00:09:16.902 which will give us a list of the last 10 files that we've used. 00:09:16.902 --> 00:09:18.122 We have a rewind button 00:09:18.122 --> 00:09:20.381 which rewinds the G code. 00:09:20.381 --> 00:09:22.241 Single block puts us into a mode 00:09:22.241 --> 00:09:28.943 where pushing cycle start will execute one line at a time. 00:09:28.943 --> 00:09:33.843 Turning off single block we could then continue the cut from there. 00:09:33.843 --> 00:09:37.633 We'll hit stop and rewind. 00:09:37.633 --> 00:09:41.575 We have a set next line button. 00:09:41.575 --> 00:09:47.295 You'll notice if I scroll through this it tells me which line I'm on. 00:09:47.295 --> 00:09:49.855 I could either say set next line, 00:09:49.855 --> 00:09:52.956 in which case the program counters have all been set to this line 00:09:52.956 --> 00:09:56.445 and pushing start will simply start moving from that point. 00:09:56.445 --> 00:10:00.686 That is not really a safe way to start a G code file in the middle. 00:10:00.686 --> 00:10:04.216 The safest way to start a G code file in the middle 00:10:04.216 --> 00:10:07.686 is to scroll your G code down to the line that you wish to start from 00:10:07.686 --> 00:10:10.266 and clicking run from here. 00:10:10.266 --> 00:10:13.807 This will force the program to run the file internally to that line 00:10:13.807 --> 00:10:16.947 in order to set all previous states to the correct position. 00:10:16.947 --> 00:10:18.287 You'll see we get a message 00:10:18.287 --> 00:10:20.637 press cycle start for preparation move. 00:10:20.637 --> 00:10:22.987 If we push cycle start it will tell us 00:10:22.987 --> 00:10:24.887 where that line in the program is 00:10:24.887 --> 00:10:27.388 and it knows we're not there 00:10:27.388 --> 00:10:30.909 and it will then go to that position 00:10:30.909 --> 00:10:35.029 and we're ready for a cycle start. 00:10:35.029 --> 00:10:39.729 We have a Tool Information line 00:10:39.729 --> 00:10:42.393 which shows us what are current tool number is 00:10:42.393 --> 00:10:43.320 diameter, 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:44.790 length of the tool. 00:10:44.790 --> 00:10:47.340 This light change tool will be flashing when the system 00:10:47.340 --> 00:10:50.481 is telling us to change our tool and we'll get a message down here 00:10:50.481 --> 00:10:52.124 asking us to press cycle start 00:10:52.124 --> 00:10:55.201 when we have changed our tool. 00:10:55.201 --> 00:10:58.786 We can turn jog on or off. 00:10:58.786 --> 00:11:01.861 This button probably doesn't belong in the tool information 00:11:01.861 --> 00:11:04.022 but it was a nice spot to put it 00:11:04.022 --> 00:11:07.256 and it was empty there anyway. 00:11:07.256 --> 00:11:09.111 We have an off line mode 00:11:09.111 --> 00:11:11.522 which stops any output from going to our motors 00:11:11.522 --> 00:11:13.205 in case we want to run a simulation 00:11:13.205 --> 00:11:15.972 and we don't want our motors to move. 00:11:15.972 --> 00:11:17.263 We have a go to Zed button 00:11:17.263 --> 00:11:18.713 which means go to zeros, 00:11:18.713 --> 00:11:20.582 pressing this button tells all our axes 00:11:20.582 --> 00:11:22.874 to go to the zero point. 00:11:22.874 --> 00:11:24.994 We have a machine coordinates button 00:11:24.994 --> 00:11:27.614 which when pressed will show us our machine coordinates 00:11:27.614 --> 00:11:28.863 of the current positon 00:11:28.863 --> 00:11:31.600 verses our work coordinates. 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.424 The next video will go into explaining 00:11:33.424 --> 00:11:35.624 the difference between the two. 00:11:35.624 --> 00:11:39.334 We have a Soft Limits button that we can turn on, 00:11:39.334 --> 00:11:42.084 as long as our axis is currently within the 00:11:42.084 --> 00:11:45.973 width and height of the soft limits we have set. 00:11:45.973 --> 00:11:49.975 Again this will be the subject in the next video as well. 00:11:49.975 --> 00:11:51.648 Here we have scale values 00:11:51.648 --> 00:11:53.605 that we can scale in access if we were to 00:11:53.605 --> 00:11:57.045 for example .5 in the X scale 00:11:57.045 --> 00:11:59.426 We get a warning that the X is now scaled. 00:11:59.426 --> 00:12:05.626 Hitting regen toolpath we can see it's now scaled to .5 of what it was. 00:12:05.626 --> 00:12:08.367 Setting this back to 1 will turn off our scale warning 00:12:08.367 --> 00:12:12.457 and regening we can see we are now back to a full file. 00:12:12.457 --> 00:12:15.927 We have a feed rate selector 00:12:15.927 --> 00:12:20.041 this is feed rate override. 00:12:20.041 --> 00:12:21.668 We have units per minute 00:12:21.668 --> 00:12:22.668 and units per rev 00:12:22.668 --> 00:12:28.629 that are real time updates as your moving. 00:12:28.629 --> 00:12:31.219 Here we have our Spindle Speed selection 00:12:31.219 --> 00:12:34.409 we can turn a spindle on or off. 00:12:34.409 --> 00:12:36.409 We have Spindle Speed override, 00:12:36.409 --> 00:12:39.920 that we can override the spindle speed that was set in the G code program 00:12:39.920 --> 00:12:42.609 and allow the spindle to speed up or slow down 00:12:42.609 --> 00:12:46.089 pressing reset will of course bring it back to 0. 00:12:46.089 --> 00:12:48.800 This section of the screen here is used for multipass 00:12:48.800 --> 00:12:50.701 again you don't need to worry about it 00:12:50.701 --> 00:12:52.591 unless you know how to use it. 00:12:52.591 --> 00:12:54.589 Generally though if you have a G code file 00:12:54.589 --> 00:12:56.491 which is set to a particular depth, 00:12:56.491 --> 00:12:58.961 say its set to cut 2 - 10 00:12:58.961 --> 00:13:00.262 you could hit MultiPass 00:13:00.262 --> 00:13:02.362 and tell that file to cut five times 00:13:02.362 --> 00:13:05.292 dropping two each time until it hits 10. 00:13:05.292 --> 00:13:08.462 So it is literally a MultiPass selector 00:13:08.462 --> 00:13:11.662 allowing you to cut a file in multiple passes. 00:13:11.662 --> 00:13:14.956 Here we have a Wizards button which allows us to select 00:13:14.956 --> 00:13:17.693 any of the Wizards that are in the system 00:13:17.693 --> 00:13:19.763 and we also have a Last Wizard button 00:13:19.763 --> 00:13:22.793 and if you have selected a Wizard in the past 00:13:22.793 --> 00:13:23.773 during that session 00:13:23.773 --> 00:13:26.543 it will just bring it up quickly again for you. 00:13:26.543 --> 00:13:28.833 We have a Conversational button 00:13:28.833 --> 00:13:31.673 which will switch us to conversational screens. 00:13:31.673 --> 00:13:35.094 This will be the subject of a video of its own 00:13:35.094 --> 00:13:37.414 but here we can select material 00:13:37.414 --> 00:13:40.305 and calculate what are feeds and speeds should be 00:13:40.305 --> 00:13:45.665 and then we can select various automatic conversational systems 00:13:45.665 --> 00:13:48.225 to do jobs that we might not want 00:13:48.225 --> 00:13:50.295 to go to a cam program for 00:13:50.295 --> 00:13:54.466 or things which can be quickly done through a wizard. 00:13:54.466 --> 00:13:58.087 Pressing exit will take us back to our normal screens. 00:13:58.087 --> 00:13:59.566 You can see that the wizard eye 00:13:59.566 --> 00:14:02.146 was in already started to post a program 00:14:02.146 --> 00:14:03.846 we didn't select any real programs 00:14:03.846 --> 00:14:06.377 so we don't get much code from it. 00:14:06.377 --> 00:14:08.496 Hitting our recent file list 00:14:08.496 --> 00:14:11.937 we could select our roadrunner again 00:14:11.937 --> 00:14:17.237 and there's our famous roadrunner. 00:14:17.237 --> 00:14:18.997 Here we'll display the file name 00:14:18.997 --> 00:14:21.755 that we currently have loaded 00:14:21.755 --> 00:14:23.475 and here's a Reference button 00:14:23.475 --> 00:14:27.618 to send all our homes to 0 to our home switch. 00:14:27.618 --> 00:14:30.859 If we press Reference you'll notice that the Y axis 00:14:30.859 --> 00:14:34.379 is now moving up and now it hit its switch 00:14:34.379 --> 00:14:37.430 and now the X axis is moving to it its switch 00:14:37.430 --> 00:14:40.420 hits it and then backs off the switch. 00:14:40.420 --> 00:14:42.800 These are simulated and you'll see that the X axis 00:14:42.800 --> 00:14:46.010 went forward to its switch which it normally wouldn't do 00:14:46.010 --> 00:14:48.051 I haven't set this system up for homing 00:14:48.051 --> 00:14:51.251 we'll do that in the next video when we discuss work offsets 00:14:51.251 --> 00:14:54.591 and general coordinates systems themselves. 00:14:54.591 --> 00:14:56.261 We take a look at the MDI screen 00:14:56.261 --> 00:14:58.821 again we have are DROs repeated. 00:14:58.821 --> 00:15:01.071 It's handy to have DROs on most of the screens 00:15:01.071 --> 00:15:03.401 so you know exactly where your table is at. 00:15:03.401 --> 00:15:06.221 We have 0 buttons for zeroing the axes 00:15:06.221 --> 00:15:09.303 and another Reference button here to scaling 00:15:09.303 --> 00:15:12.644 Radius correction is used for axis work 00:15:12.644 --> 00:15:16.413 where you can tell the system the actual circumference 00:15:16.413 --> 00:15:19.223 size of the object and it will correct feed rate 00:15:19.223 --> 00:15:22.893 to create a Toolpath that feeds at the correct rate 00:15:22.893 --> 00:15:25.344 on the circumference of a rotating object. 00:15:25.344 --> 00:15:28.124 Again something that you can ignore unless 00:15:28.124 --> 00:15:31.594 you understand what they're for. 00:15:31.594 --> 00:15:33.144 We have Dereference all axes 00:15:33.144 --> 00:15:34.835 where we can tell the system 00:15:34.835 --> 00:15:36.428 that we're no longer homed. 00:15:36.428 --> 00:15:41.575 These LEDs turn green when we are homed. 00:15:41.575 --> 00:15:44.035 Off line again Machine Coordinate 00:15:44.035 --> 00:15:45.465 and we have a verify button. 00:15:45.465 --> 00:15:46.875 The verify button is used 00:15:46.875 --> 00:15:49.316 if you want to check to see if you lost any steps 00:15:49.316 --> 00:15:51.789 in your running of various programs 00:15:51.789 --> 00:15:54.277 it will send the axes back to your home switch 00:15:54.277 --> 00:15:57.318 and then bring them back to where you were 00:15:57.318 --> 00:15:58.458 when you pressed verify 00:15:58.458 --> 00:16:01.027 and report to you when you lost steps. 00:16:01.027 --> 00:16:04.298 Scaling off button will turn off any scalings that are in effect. 00:16:04.298 --> 00:16:07.261 If we had a scale of .5 on our X 00:16:07.261 --> 00:16:08.718 and we want to get rid of it 00:16:08.718 --> 00:16:10.467 we could just press off. 00:16:10.467 --> 00:16:12.672 We have a Stop button, 00:16:12.672 --> 00:16:14.998 we have a Start Teach and a Stop Teach button. 00:16:14.998 --> 00:16:17.339 These are Teach modes with MDI. 00:16:17.339 --> 00:16:18.908 You can actually write a program 00:16:18.908 --> 00:16:21.788 and type in the commands as you go. 00:16:21.788 --> 00:16:23.918 The Teach will remember any commands 00:16:23.918 --> 00:16:26.393 which were typed here into the MDI 00:16:26.393 --> 00:16:29.729 and create a G code program from what you typed. 00:16:29.729 --> 00:16:32.413 We have a set variable position 00:16:32.413 --> 00:16:33.999 if we go to a particular position 00:16:33.999 --> 00:16:36.440 we can say set that as a variable position 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.910 and later on in our program if we're somewhere else 00:16:38.910 --> 00:16:41.500 we could say go to variable position 00:16:41.500 --> 00:16:43.191 and it will return there. 00:16:43.191 --> 00:16:45.371 Think of this memory plus on a calculator 00:16:45.371 --> 00:16:48.321 and memory recall. 00:16:48.321 --> 00:16:49.831 We've duplicated the feed rate 00:16:49.831 --> 00:16:53.511 and the spindle speed controls here 00:16:53.511 --> 00:16:56.441 and the jog on and jog off controls for safety sake 00:16:56.441 --> 00:16:57.433 in case you don't, 00:16:57.433 --> 00:16:59.672 you want to make sure you don't hit an arrow key 00:16:59.672 --> 00:17:03.612 and destroy your work while you're playing around. 00:17:03.612 --> 00:17:08.333 The input line here for MDI records your commands as you type them. 00:17:08.333 --> 00:17:14.343 If we do a G0X0Y0 for example, 00:17:14.343 --> 00:17:17.183 you can see my axes just moved to 0 00:17:17.183 --> 00:17:19.393 and this little box here is a history box 00:17:19.393 --> 00:17:21.213 which now displays that command. 00:17:21.213 --> 00:17:24.724 If we type G0X10 00:17:24.724 --> 00:17:26.545 the history box has just grown by 1 00:17:26.545 --> 00:17:28.304 and by pressing the up or down arrows 00:17:28.304 --> 00:17:30.763 we can scroll threw those settings 00:17:30.763 --> 00:17:32.076 and recall them. 00:17:32.076 --> 00:17:33.915 Pressing enter takes any command 00:17:33.915 --> 00:17:35.535 and pressing enter on a blank line 00:17:35.535 --> 00:17:38.056 will exit you from the MBI input. 00:17:38.056 --> 00:17:41.845 Also pressing enter while you don't have the line selected 00:17:41.845 --> 00:17:47.316 will select the line and take it off. 00:17:50.936 --> 00:17:54.596 This is the Toolpath screen here we have DROs 00:17:54.596 --> 00:17:56.646 just to show you where you are. 00:17:56.646 --> 00:18:01.945 We have program limits that show you the range of the program 00:18:01.945 --> 00:18:05.217 so your minimum X would be this point here is 0 00:18:05.217 --> 00:18:09.857 your max is 7.72 which would be this point here. 00:18:09.857 --> 00:18:11.468 We have a Regen Toolpath button 00:18:11.468 --> 00:18:13.829 which regenerates the Toolpath. 00:18:13.829 --> 00:18:16.117 These are buttons duplicated from the front page 00:18:16.117 --> 00:18:17.379 you can rewind a file, 00:18:17.379 --> 00:18:18.210 single block it, 00:18:18.210 --> 00:18:18.929 reverse run it, 00:18:18.929 --> 00:18:19.629 stop it, 00:18:19.629 --> 00:18:21.749 or feed hold it. 00:18:21.749 --> 00:18:27.238 You can also estimate a program by hitting simulate program run. 00:18:27.238 --> 00:18:28.939 No motor movement will occure 00:18:28.939 --> 00:18:30.750 and you can see the DROs are not moving 00:18:30.750 --> 00:18:33.259 but the time is counting very quickly up to show you 00:18:33.259 --> 00:18:38.711 how long this job will take to cut at its current feed rate settings. 00:18:38.711 --> 00:18:45.680 It takes approximately a minute for every 10 minutes of program run simulation. 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.009 So if you have a multi hour job, this could take a little while 00:18:48.009 --> 00:18:50.251 to figure out exactly how long it's gonna take. 00:18:50.251 --> 00:18:52.350 But it can be useful 00:18:52.350 --> 00:18:55.203 for calculating an estimate for a customer who wants to know 00:18:55.203 --> 00:18:59.352 how many hours of time it's going to take to simulate his 00:18:59.352 --> 00:19:02.441 or to cut his actual job. 00:19:02.441 --> 00:19:05.472 So this program will take 3 minutes and 56 seconds 00:19:05.472 --> 00:19:09.413 to cut at its current feed rate setting. 00:19:09.413 --> 00:19:11.043 Now we have a Run from here button 00:19:11.043 --> 00:19:16.273 so that you can start the program from any point in it. 00:19:16.273 --> 00:19:18.884 We have an offsets page. 00:19:18.884 --> 00:19:23.164 This particular section here is used for setting a gage block height. 00:19:23.164 --> 00:19:26.374 Um, it means you can put a block on top of your machine 00:19:26.374 --> 00:19:27.404 jog down to it 00:19:27.404 --> 00:19:30.434 and then set you zed coordinate to accuracy 00:19:30.434 --> 00:19:32.535 without the risk of the tip of your bits 00:19:32.535 --> 00:19:34.606 scratching your piece 00:19:34.606 --> 00:19:36.345 and this is used by a lot of people 00:19:36.345 --> 00:19:38.906 as a safe way of setting their tool height. 00:19:38.906 --> 00:19:41.555 We have a current work offset, 00:19:41.555 --> 00:19:47.306 which shows us what the offset is in various modes 00:19:47.306 --> 00:19:50.107 but primarily it shows what the current 00:19:50.107 --> 00:19:52.567 work offset is in the mode we have selected. 00:19:52.567 --> 00:19:55.847 Normally you will be set to G 54 00:19:55.847 --> 00:19:58.177 until you've gained a certain amount of expertise 00:19:58.177 --> 00:20:00.878 and then your free to select any of the offset systems. 00:20:00.878 --> 00:20:04.507 There are in fact 255 of these systems 00:20:04.507 --> 00:20:07.398 but we've given quick access to the first 6. 00:20:07.398 --> 00:20:09.258 Most people I don't think will ever need 00:20:09.258 --> 00:20:13.958 more then the first 6 that they have. 00:20:13.958 --> 00:20:17.188 Here we have an edge finder selection, 00:20:17.188 --> 00:20:18.608 this can be used 00:20:18.608 --> 00:20:21.189 and is useful for finding the center of a circle 00:20:21.189 --> 00:20:23.709 or finding the edge of material. 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:28.580 This is a duplication of the Gage Block Height 00:20:28.580 --> 00:20:31.550 with a few other help systems on it 00:20:31.550 --> 00:20:34.440 these help menus will soon become active. 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:37.599 We can turn on or off the tool offset as well 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:39.251 as long as were not in tool zero 00:20:39.251 --> 00:20:44.561 which has, which never has an offset in it. 00:20:44.561 --> 00:20:47.251 These buttons here will allow you to bring up a dialogue 00:20:47.251 --> 00:20:49.730 to see what is stored in your work offset systems. 00:20:49.730 --> 00:20:52.932 Here you can see G54 through G59 00:20:52.932 --> 00:20:59.763 and we also have G59p7 through G59p253. 00:20:59.763 --> 00:21:02.602 So there is a lot of offset systems that you can use. 00:21:02.602 --> 00:21:05.072 We also have a tool table, 00:21:05.072 --> 00:21:07.963 which will show us what is stored 00:21:07.963 --> 00:21:10.407 for each entry in the tool table 00:21:10.407 --> 00:21:13.443 and again we wont get into that until we've gone through 00:21:13.443 --> 00:21:17.854 showing you exactly what tool tables are and how to use them. 00:21:17.854 --> 00:21:19.515 The Setting Screen 00:21:19.515 --> 00:21:21.532 which will change very shortly, 00:21:21.532 --> 00:21:24.776 is used for special jobs like turning on lasers triggers 00:21:24.776 --> 00:21:27.120 to trigger measurement lasers 00:21:27.120 --> 00:21:30.619 across a grid of X, Y coordinates. 00:21:30.619 --> 00:21:32.955 We can set a rapid override 00:21:32.955 --> 00:21:37.910 which slows down or speeds up are rapids . 00:21:37.910 --> 00:21:41.015 We can tell the system that when input number 4 00:21:41.015 --> 00:21:43.066 is coming into the printer port 00:21:43.066 --> 00:21:46.957 to do a single step whenever it sees a toggle. 00:21:46.957 --> 00:21:52.557 Various settings and you should need to use none of these as a beginning user. 00:21:52.557 --> 00:21:54.367 These are all fairly advanced settings 00:21:54.367 --> 00:21:58.120 and really aren't necessary for most people. 00:21:58.120 --> 00:22:01.608 The diagnostic screen has a couple things that are important 00:22:01.608 --> 00:22:03.649 one is the pulse frequency. 00:22:03.649 --> 00:22:07.178 If your system is running properly you should have a pulse frequency here. 00:22:07.178 --> 00:22:11.098 You can see that mine is dead locked at 25,690 00:22:11.098 --> 00:22:12.998 this should not vary much 00:22:12.998 --> 00:22:14.879 it is a sign of a well operating system 00:22:14.879 --> 00:22:17.319 that this number doesn't change 00:22:17.319 --> 00:22:18.559 and doesn't fly around. 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:21.199 It won't affect you if it flies around a little bit 00:22:21.199 --> 00:22:23.669 say 10 or so 00:22:23.669 --> 00:22:28.360 but typically it should be fairly well locked. 00:22:28.360 --> 00:22:30.460 Most of the other settings on this screen 00:22:30.460 --> 00:22:36.400 are not very important to you at all other then these LEDs. 00:22:36.400 --> 00:22:38.410 Then we have a tab screen 00:22:38.410 --> 00:22:42.032 which is pulled out by pressing the tab key 00:22:42.032 --> 00:22:46.051 and these are the jog selections in the system. 00:22:46.051 --> 00:22:47.193 I'm gonna flick back to 00:22:47.193 --> 00:22:50.702 the program run screens that we get a better view. 00:22:50.702 --> 00:22:52.791 You can see that the jog buttons 00:22:52.791 --> 00:22:56.692 will jog the axes with an onscreen jog. 00:22:56.692 --> 00:22:58.553 We have a slow jog rate 00:22:58.553 --> 00:23:01.703 which we have set to 50% at the moment. 00:23:01.703 --> 00:23:04.223 Slow jog is what you get when you just simply 00:23:04.223 --> 00:23:06.094 press the arrow keys. 00:23:06.094 --> 00:23:09.234 If you look here you can see my units per minute 00:23:09.234 --> 00:23:13.214 when I jog it's currently 321mm per minute, 00:23:13.214 --> 00:23:16.884 but if I press that's a 50% rate. 00:23:16.884 --> 00:23:20.183 If I press the shift key and when I press shift you'll see 00:23:20.183 --> 00:23:23.665 this LED light up here on the panel. 00:23:23.665 --> 00:23:27.155 That's an indicator that you are now going to fast jog. 00:23:27.155 --> 00:23:29.085 So by pressing the shift key 00:23:29.085 --> 00:23:30.235 and pressing the X jog 00:23:30.235 --> 00:23:35.016 you can see that we've gone now to 642 units per minute, 00:23:35.016 --> 00:23:37.125 double the speed that we were. 00:23:37.125 --> 00:23:41.636 This slow jog rate can be used to get vary fine movement control 00:23:41.636 --> 00:23:44.288 from your arrow keys, 00:23:44.288 --> 00:23:47.407 when you want to slow things down for very fine approaches. 00:23:47.407 --> 00:23:50.276 Pressing shift will take you to a high speed move 00:23:50.276 --> 00:23:53.977 so that you can move quickly away or two a piece. 00:23:53.977 --> 00:23:56.456 For jog modes we can also switch to a step mode 00:23:56.456 --> 00:23:58.608 which means every press of the arrow key 00:23:58.608 --> 00:24:03.899 will move us this amount here .01mm 00:24:03.899 --> 00:24:07.588 and you can see my X axes as I press the key is now 00:24:07.588 --> 00:24:11.548 each time I press it moving .01. 00:24:11.548 --> 00:24:14.409 The cycle step can be cycled through 00:24:14.409 --> 00:24:16.899 now we've cycled it up to .1 00:24:16.899 --> 00:24:20.619 and now each time I jog it will move .1. 00:24:20.619 --> 00:24:23.719 And you can set these cycle jogs... steps 00:24:23.719 --> 00:24:26.561 in the Configure State menu. 00:24:26.561 --> 00:24:28.469 Here are the ones we are cycling through 00:24:28.469 --> 00:24:31.772 when we press this Cycle Jog Step button. 00:24:31.772 --> 00:24:34.351 You'll see an entry here 999, 00:24:34.351 --> 00:24:38.121 999 triggers the system to switch back to continues jog 00:24:38.121 --> 00:24:44.751 it's a way to get back to continues jog just by cycling through. 00:24:44.751 --> 00:24:47.132 We have an MPG mode 00:24:47.132 --> 00:24:48.602 and in the MPG mode , 00:24:48.602 --> 00:24:51.182 when you rotate your MPG wheel 00:24:51.182 --> 00:24:56.682 you will jog in one of four various types of jog. 00:24:56.682 --> 00:24:58.362 By selecting velocity 00:24:58.362 --> 00:25:00.133 the faster you turn the jog wheel 00:25:00.133 --> 00:25:02.503 the faster your access will jog. 00:25:02.503 --> 00:25:07.554 By step velocity at the moment is the same as velocity only it is a redundant 00:25:07.554 --> 00:25:11.124 mode and no longer required. But I'm going to leave it there for the moment 00:25:11.124 --> 00:25:14.184 we'll fill it with a better mode soon. 00:25:14.184 --> 00:25:15.104 Single step mode 00:25:15.104 --> 00:25:16.855 will move you one single step 00:25:16.855 --> 00:25:20.264 whenever you rotate the wheel a small amount 00:25:20.264 --> 00:25:24.876 you must stop between steps to get single step to work. 00:25:24.876 --> 00:25:26.605 Multi-step you don't need to stop 00:25:26.605 --> 00:25:28.745 you can calibrate your MPG wheel, 00:25:28.745 --> 00:25:30.114 rotate it 5 clicks 00:25:30.114 --> 00:25:31.665 and the axes will move 00:25:31.665 --> 00:25:35.236 an appropriate amount with 5 clicks of movement. 00:25:35.236 --> 00:25:38.286 This percentage reading here is not used at the moment 00:25:38.286 --> 00:25:40.816 it is part of the old step velocity mode 00:25:40.816 --> 00:25:42.726 which will again be replaced. 00:25:42.726 --> 00:25:44.816 There's a Calibrating button here 00:25:44.816 --> 00:25:46.577 to calibrate your MPG 00:25:46.577 --> 00:25:49.747 to tell the system how many encoder counts it will get 00:25:49.747 --> 00:25:51.298 per detent of the wheel 00:25:51.298 --> 00:25:53.448 and so on, and it'll calculate things out 00:25:53.448 --> 00:25:56.908 to make it work smoother for you. 00:25:56.908 --> 00:25:59.772 There's a shuttle mode which can be turned on. 00:25:59.772 --> 00:26:03.448 Shuttle mode runs a program by rotating the wheel. 00:26:03.448 --> 00:26:04.419 In shuttle mode 00:26:04.419 --> 00:26:07.629 we can tell a program to start 00:26:07.629 --> 00:26:10.142 and as you can see it will not move 00:26:10.142 --> 00:26:12.659 and it's waiting for us to rotate the wheel. 00:26:12.659 --> 00:26:16.230 If we were to then rotate the hand wheel 00:26:16.230 --> 00:26:21.310 8, the program will then move slowly 00:26:21.310 --> 00:26:25.130 as you can see as I stop turning my MPG 00:26:25.130 --> 00:26:27.160 the DROs stop moving. 00:26:27.160 --> 00:26:31.164 If I get rid of that we can see 00:26:31.164 --> 00:26:33.792 the program is now moving 00:26:34.682 --> 00:26:38.103 and you notice it is cutting in the wrong place. 00:26:38.103 --> 00:26:40.476 That's because we did not regen the toolpath 00:26:40.476 --> 00:26:43.336 after all our playing here and zeroing. 00:26:43.336 --> 00:26:45.223 So it's important, 00:26:45.223 --> 00:26:46.603 I'm gonna stop this again 00:26:46.603 --> 00:26:49.633 regenerate the toolpath after you've been zeroing. 00:26:49.633 --> 00:26:51.518 I can now tell the program to start 00:26:51.518 --> 00:26:52.794 and again it's not moving 00:26:52.794 --> 00:26:54.943 because I'm not moving my MPG 00:26:54.943 --> 00:26:58.353 as I rotate my MPG now the program 00:26:58.353 --> 00:27:01.034 as you can see follows through 00:27:01.034 --> 00:27:05.694 and cuts only at the speed that I rotate my wheel at. 00:27:05.694 --> 00:27:08.853 This is a very handy mode for those who are nervouse 00:27:08.853 --> 00:27:10.622 and want to run a program very slowly 00:27:10.622 --> 00:27:14.056 and a little bit at a time. 00:27:14.056 --> 00:27:16.834 And that's what shuttle mode does. 00:27:16.834 --> 00:27:18.545 Once I turn off shuttle mode 00:27:18.545 --> 00:27:22.815 you can see the program begins to run automatically 00:27:22.815 --> 00:27:24.396 and will finish itself out 00:27:24.396 --> 00:27:27.796 unless I tell it to stop. 00:27:31.476 --> 00:27:35.086 That's about it for the buttons that are on the MPG 00:27:35.086 --> 00:27:36.896 and Jog tab. 00:27:36.896 --> 00:27:41.487 That's about it for all the buttons in the system really 00:27:41.487 --> 00:27:44.127 and all that you need to know to get started. 00:27:44.127 --> 00:27:46.587 In the next video we're going to take a look at 00:27:46.587 --> 00:27:48.578 work offset and offset systems 00:27:48.578 --> 00:27:50.778 to get you more use to that. 00:27:50.778 --> 00:27:53.588 And that's it for now.