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This guide is for your general reference when you start machining on your own. This is not a comprehensive guide and there will be details not included, but may help if you get stuck.

Turning on the machine

1. Flip the switch on the back right

2. Twist the E-stop button to release it

3. Hit the physical reset button

4. Hit reset on the machine screen

5. Reference your axes, first Z, then X and Y (click ref next to each axis)

Setting up your tools

1. Select your tool

   1. Endmills

      1. Find the correct collet size for your tool and insert into holder

      2. Insert tool into collet and torque to appropriate value

   2. Drills

      1. Insert drill into drill chuck and use spanner wrench to tighten down

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1. 1. 1. , there is no torque spec here, just hit it with the old good n tight

2. Grab the tool currently in the machine, and push the tool release button to take it out.

3. Push the tool release button again and hold. Insert new tool, ensuring the notches on the toolholder and spindle line up.

4. In the bottom right corner of the screen, set the tool number to match the tool number in your cam. Do not leave this as any other number by accident as this will for sure cause a crash.

5. Check that the tool height setter is plugged in. This is the little silver plate on the mill table that has a wire running out to the side. If it is not plugged in, you will break your tool on the next step.

6. Go to the offset tab and click move and set tool length.

7. Repeat until all your tools are set up

Setting up your Work Holding

1. Select your method of workholding

2. Place on mill table

   1. For Vice

      1. Locate the vice with bolts, try to eyeball it as straight as possible, and ever so slightly tighten down

      2. Grab a dial gauge and attach to spindle

      3. Jog the mill so that the tip of the dial gauge is very close to the fixed edge of the vice. (It is very important that you dial off of the fixed side of the vice)

      4. Turn your handle jog speed down and move the spindle so the dial gauge just barely touches the vice. Note the direction that the dial gage pointer moves.

      5. Jog the spindle across the face of the vice, and pay attention to how much the pointer is moving. If the pointer goes more than a few times around the dial, you

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Locate the vice with bolts and ever so slightly tighten down

Zeroing your stock

Options for zeroing

Uploading your program

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1. 1. 1. can break it by moving any further.

      2. Use the dead blow hammer to tap the vice into alignment. You are looking for the deviation across the length of the vice to be under 1-2 thou depending on how precise your part needs to be and how long it is. 1 thou across a long distance and across a short distance are not equal, think about the angle propagation at length.

   2. For 3 Jaw Chuck

      1. Literally just bolt it to the table

      2. thats it

      3. theres no other steps

2. In your cam, determine how for down in Z you are going to go from the top of your stock. Then select a parallel size that leaves at least this value, plus a little clearance( at least 0.075 inches) sticking out of the vice. Place you stock on the parallels and tighten the vice down. Hit the top of your stock with a dead blow.

Zeroing your stock

1. Check your zero location and axis alignment in your cam

2. Put the probe into the spindle

3. change the tool number in the bottom right corner to 99

4. Click the probe tab

5. The simplest form of zeroing is 3 surface touch-off, where you tap in x, y and z.

   1. Line up your probe to the side of the surface you want to tap in x, then click “Probe X” next to the picture that lines up with the direction you want the probe to go

   2. Jog to in front or behind the surface you want to tap in y and click “Probe Y” that matches the orientation you wish to probe

   3. Jog above the Z surface you wish to tap off and click “Probe Z”

      1. There are more complicated options for other stock shapes and geometry that you will discover as you continue to machine

6. Your zero is now set, just remember to change the tool number back when you swap out the probe, so you don’t accidentally reset the probe length offset

Uploading your program

1. Select your job (or right in HSMWORKS, right click and then click post process. You

Starting the program

• Single block

• Feed down

• Velocity down

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