fusion ignoring work offsets

[slaughlin79]

guys ive finally got comfortable enough with my vf4ss to start using the 4th axis, a hrc210 but after figuring out how to wrap a toolpath ive ran into another wall. when i set my g55, which is the rotary offsets,my cutter goes to about 8'' above my part and cuts air.  now, when i look at my offsets on the controller, it shows z1.8828, which is correct but zero is way above the part. now just for the hell of it i probed my table so, g54 and turned rapids 5 percent and feed to 10 percent  so i had enough time to hit feed hold and to my surprise it went back to the exact same position as it did when i used the g55 4th axis offset. i dont know what could be causing it? file is attached.  thanks    side question i tried to use adaptive and contour on the same part as one in the file but could only get pocket to work. is ther a reason why those 2 operations wont work?

[Richard.stubley]

Looking at your Fusion file that looks all good to me. 

My guess would be wither work offsets or tool offsets. 

One thing to remember is, if you handwheel a tool down to have a look if its in the right place the tool length compensation will not have been applied so you need to account for that as well.

What I would do is start doing some basic tests. 
Forget tool-orientation for a moment, just put a simple toolpath like a face on the top of the part and raise it by 1mm or so. Then slowly run the program and see where the tool goes to. If it goes to the wrong place then its either the tool or work offset. 

Also are you using a NGC controller with DWO (Dynamic work offsets?) if not then you need to ensure that the work offset is at the center of rotation of the HR210, looking at the Fusion file it does look like you already have this set up. but I thought it was worth a mention. 

[slaughlin79]

Thanks for the reply, yes it it's ngc but do not have the dwo and yes sir the center of location is my wcs. 

whats weird is if I probe a square block in a vise and face it the coordinates work just fine and does as expected but as soon as I try to do cut with the rotary it throws the zero that I have set on the machine out the window. I jog down and set zero at center of rotary along with y and x and as soon as I press cycle start the coordinates change on the controller like fusion is telling it to. 

ive messed around with moving the triad to different points on the stock and the cutter always goes back to the same spot. I've tried reversing the axis which brings up something else that might be a clue. 

when doing a facing operation,the machine from other side option is reversed in my app. Meaning whichever one I chose it does just the exact opposite of what the illustration shows.

im not sure what that could be. I have noticed on some peoples posts that in the box that shows post processor type it says HAAS-Next Generation Control but mine says HAAS-Next Generation Control/haas%next%20generation. 

I wonder if my post downloaded incomplete?