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Heidenhain Training

Heidenhain Training

Category : Heidenhain Training

Heidenhain Training

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CNC Training Centre offers Heidenhain training both on-site and off-site. The Heidenhain TNC control has been around since the 1970’s and similar to Mazak it was well ahead of its time.

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Heidenhain is a lot more friendly to the user than some controls. A lot of controls will allow you to basically input any old shit and then try and run the code. With these types of control nothing is really monitoring what you are inputting. Not until you actually run the program do you start to get alarms flying around everywhere.

Whenever I train people, I would guess under 35, they have this real instinct to just type and press buttons at lightening speed. Now this is great when you are playing space invader or whatever. Sorry I am not well up on computer games.

 

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You see the thing is now most software is very intuitive and programmers and interface designers have done an amazing job. We download an app or some free software and we fiddle around with it and soon its all working. The idea is you just experiment until you get it working. It’s designed with this in mind.

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Take Microsoft word as an example. How many of you have actually been on a training course? Exactly none of you.

But everyday we all use it with great success.

Anyway start doing this on a CNC machine and bang crash wallop, you end up with a lost limb and a pile of scrap metal. And I didn’t even mention the busted tool and the machine that needs a £2000 re alignment. Anyway you get my drift.

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CNC machines are just not that way at all. I mean yea there are a few exceptions but still you really need professional instruction. Sorry rambling again sign up today for a Heidenhain Training Course.

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Edgecam Training

Category : Courses Edgecam Training

Edgecam Classroom Training

This two day course teaches you to program from a basic part in Edgecam right through to machining on a real machine.

Learn to create a CNC program from lines or a solid model then post out the code you can then run it on a real CNC Lathe or Milling machine.

This course is designed to get you using Edgecam in the real manufacturing world.

The course is at our training centre in Nottingham, England

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Services offered at CNC Training Centre

 Edgecam Training.

Classroom programmer training.

Onsite CNC Machine Training.

CNC Training on all controls and machines.

Mazak Training Fanuc Training

Don’t forget we offer training on all types of Mazak Machines and all Fanuc Controls 6m to 31i Oi old to young.


Haas Training, Milling, Turning

Category : Haas Training

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Haas Training
Haas products are constantly improving and developing. I love working with Haas because they actually listen to customers.

Every company claims to do this. We all know that some of the software and machines we use everyday have annoying faults that just never seem to be picked up on by the designers.

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Anyway you all know I get pissed off about this if you ever read anything I write. Here is an example.

Did you ever work on a machine with a random tool-changer?

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This is a CNC Milling machine that gets the tool out of the spindle and puts it back into the nearest pocket. Could be a Fanuc control Mazak control, Heidenhain. So when you look round the back of the machine at the pockets, the pocket numbers bear no resemblance to the actual tool numbers.

Anyway you go round the back of the machine and you see a tool you want. An M10 tap maybe. I want that M10 tap so I have to go all through my tool lists or whatever to find what tool number it is.

I hope you get me so far. So I find there is an M10 tap called T06 and I call it to the spindle. Oh dear there are two M10 taps and I got the wrong one. In real life I would probably say bollocks but I am trying to make these articles more classy by reducing the profanities.

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Yes, so that’s the problem. Best thing is keep a tool list maybe.
Anyway on a Haas machine all you do is look round the back at what pocket the tool is in. Instead of typing T06 M06 you just key in P06 M06 (P being the pocket number) and Bob’s your uncle job done.
That’s why I love Haas machines maybe someone complained about how frustrating it was, I don’t know. I think  someone worked on the machine at Haas and thought “mm that’s annoying I’ll sort that”.

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CNC Machine Training Classes

Category : Training

CNC Machine Training Classes now running at the CNC Training Centre

Beginners

Setter Operator Beginners Turning

Setter Operator Beginners Milling

These two courses are designed for beginners who want to learn how to set and operate a CNC machine and are for students with very little engineering experience.

 Learn to Programme

Learn To Programme Turning

Learn To Programme Milling

If you already work on a CNC Machine but you want to learn to programme then the two courses above are for you.

Absolute Beginners

I have added these courses which are for students with very little engineering experience. They cover the basics of milling and turning in preparation for learning to programme.

Beginners turning

Beginners Milling

 

They are two day courses but pack a lot in, covering tooling and measuring instruments. I am drawing from my vast experience in industry, on the coal face as it were, and knowing the very basics skills that are needed by a CNC operator before he begins to learn about programming.

The New CNC Training Classes and Courses focus very much on the basics giving a solid understanding of the nuts and bolts of CNC programming on an ISO Fanuc Haas type control.

The Story

I am going to ramble on, because I always do, but it made me think of when I worked with my dad many years ago. My dad was a brilliant old school engineer and he worked for Alfred Herberts from boy to man, apart from a brief period in the RAF.

New CNC Training ClassesHe got made redundant and had his pension robbed when AH finally went bust. I was running an engineering company so it seemed obvious to have him working for me.

I learnt so much from my dad about the basic principles of machining (this is the link to the training courses) albeit tenuous. His claim to fame was that he worked the first Cri Dan machine. This was an amazing innovative machine that could hold it’s own, until fairly recently, against a CNC lathe for high-speed threading. There are still a few about now.

New CNC Training ClassesMy dad often joked that he could offhand grind a 1/16 of an inch drill and read a steel rule to a thousandth of an inch which I am sure was bullshit although I would never dare to say. I remember we were trying to turn and bore some motor bodies on a Mori Seiki lathe and we could not get them round. Anyway he told me to weld up some jaws so that they would fully envelop the part.

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Basically it had nowhere to go it was like a big collet and it worked. But there was another lesson to learn. Our inexperienced inspector was trying to measure roundness with a micrometer which I am sure you all know cannot be done.

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An argument ensued and profanities were exchanged. We ended up buying a Talyrond roundness checker which is the correct tool for the job.

New CNC Training Classes

 

As it happens the same thing cropped up in a customer’s only a few months back. I caught them trying to measure roundness with a micrometer. Back to basics again.

These days I have a much better way to prove my point than shouting and swearing and it’s cheap 50 pence to be precise.

 

I threw them a 50p piece (UK Currency) or even a 20p for the real cheapskates. “Is that round” was my question. They laughed

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“Here is a micrometer now check it for roundness”.

Mmm it’s dead round when you check it with a micrometer.

The smart arses amongst you will know that a 50p piece is an “equilateral curve heptagon“. And it measures the same across any two points you care to choose. It proves that you can’t measure roundness with a micrometer.

I won’t be teaching you about roundness on these courses ,that would be silly you already know, but if you are interested in learning basic CNC Programming for a Lathe or Milling Machine look no further.

The New CNC Training Classes focus very much on the basics giving a solid understanding of the nuts and bolts of CNC programming on an ISO Fanuc Haas type control.

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If you want to learn to program CNC Machines

If you want to learn to program CNC Milling Machines

If you want to learn to program CNC Lathes

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Please contact me if you require:

  • Fanuc training.
  • CNC programming training.
  • Want to learn CNC programming.
  • Fanuc programming training.
  • Yasnac programming training.
  • Any type of CNC course.

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Training Course Fanuc Haas Macro Programming

Category : Macro Training

 Haas Macro Programming

Fanuc Training Onsite

 

CNC Macro Programming Training Courses

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(Suitable for Fanuc, Mazak and Haas Macro Programming)

Duration:          2 days.
Times:               Start 9.30am Finish 4.00pm
Location:          Barwell in Leicestershire.

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Price £300 per day

Total £600 2 days

CNC Macro Programming Training Courses

If you want to learn how to use

  • Macro CNC Programming Fanuc
  • Macro CNC Programming Haas
  • Macro CNC Programming Mazak

Most ISO type controls that have Macro use a very similar system.

Follow the link to learn some more about Macro.

Heidenhain Q parameter programming is very similar to Macro CNC Programming for Haas and Fanuc.

Once you have grasped the concept of parametric programming you will find Heidenhain Q parameter programming easy to figure out.

Suitable for Fanuc, Mazak and Haas Macro Programming Lathe and machining centre


Haas, Fanuc or similar controls (ISO Mazak).

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Make sure you have the Macro option on your control, it’s a real disappointment when you get all excited about this only to find you don’t have the option. Remember if you have a touch probe you will almost definitely have Macro installed on your machine.

Good news is you can buy the option, it don’t come cheap so sit the boss down and make him a cup of tea before you ask.

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CNC Macro Programming Training Courses

What Use Will it Be?

This is where CNC Programming gets really exciting, welcome to the turbo charged world of Macro Programming for Haas and Fanuc type controls. There is so much exciting shit you can do with this I really don’t know where to start.

Write your own canned cycle

Yes you always dreamed of having your own personal G code, you can’t call it like Bill’s G code or something but you may have G271 or something which is personal to you.

Say you wanted a drilling cycle that changed speed half way down a hole or some daft thing well now you can do it.

Make A Set of Similar Parts

Imagine you had a bunch of parts that were similar, maybe the same holes but in different positions or a similar shape.

Haas Macro Programming

You could write a parametric (Macro) programme that would be completely adjustable and would make them all instead of having to keep writing similar programmes.

You can build these programmes and add to them as you get better and better and your ideas flood in.

I always say to students to start simple and build on your experience. Just using Macro in its simplest form will inspire you to go on to do greater things.

Interrogate Your CNC Machine

You can get almost any information you want from the machine.

  • Spindle Speed.
  • Position.
  • Datum.
  • Tool Length.
  • What tool is in the spindle.
  • Put the machine into an alarm state when things go wrong like wrong data is input.
  • And loads more.

You can even modify this information and send it back.

Do Calculations

  • Simple trigonometry.
  • Calculate feeds and speeds.
  • Simple maths.
  • Input formula and get answers.

I’m getting really excited just telling you this. It means you can add all sorts of functionality to your machine that you didn’t have before.


What Skills Will I Learn

  • Basic use of variables
  • Creating simple Macro programmes
  • How system variables work
  • How to write probing Macros
  • Creating your own G Codes
  • Create alarms to make sure your Macro users behave
  • Practical use of Macro
  • Creative use of Macro
  • and more, loads more

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