Creating a Balance and Follow Turning Operation

You can take full advantage of the Rough Turning operations using both turrets simultaneously, by creating either a Balance Turning operation or a Follow Turning operation. A warning message appears if check for channel and synchronization fails. If compatibility for synchronization breaks then there is no creation of Sibling Operation. If tool compatibility breaks then a tool change activity with desired tool gets created at the specified location and the Sibling Operation is created under the new tool. All the tab pages except Tools tab are blank for the created Sibling Operation.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Create a Generic Machine with a Mill-Turn Machine , and two manufacturing programs (Manufacturing Program.1 and Manufacturing Program.2) and do one of the following:
  • Create a Rough Turning operation under Manufacturing Program.1.
  • Create a Rough Turning operation under an existing tool change operation.
See Also
Rough Turning
Using Balance and Follow Turning Operations

Create a Balance Turning Operation

The Balance Turning tab provides a context menu and parameters to create a Balance Turning operation.

  1. Open the Rough Turning dialog box and go to the Balance Turning tab.
  2. Right-click None in the Sibling Operation.
  3. In the context menu that appears, select Create Balance Turning.
  4. Select Manufacturing Program.2 as the destination of the Balance Turning operation.

    A Rough Turning operation is created under Manufacturing Program.2. It is referred to as the Sibling Operation.

    A tool change is added, if required.

    A synchronization is created between the original Rough Turning operation and the Sibling Operation.

    In the Balance Turning tab, the name of the newly created operation is displayed under the Sibling Operation along with a default Sibling Corrector.

    The context menu changes.

  5. Select tool compensation from the Sibling Corrector list where all the tool compensations available for the Sibling Operation are listed.
  6. Click Simulate or Display to check the validity of the Balance Turning operation.
  7. Click Ok to create the Balance Turning operation.

Create a Follow Turning Operation

You can create Follow turning operations with Create Follow Turning context menu command.

  1. Right-click the Rough Turning operation and the dialog box appears. Go to the Follow Turning tab.
  2. Right-click None in the Sibling Operation.
  3. In the context menu that appears, select Create Follow Turning.
  4. Select Manufacturing Program.2 as the destination of the Follow Turning operation.

    A Rough Turning operation is created under a Manufacturing Program.2. It is referred to as the Sibling Operation.

    The original Rough Turning operation is considered as the master operation, and processes the odd passes.

    The sibling Rough Turning operation is considered as the Sibling Operation, and processes the even passes.

    A tool change is added, if required.

    A synchronization is created between the original Rough Turning operation and the Sibling Operation.

    In the Follow Turning tab, the name of the newly created operation is displayed under the Sibling Operation, along with a default Sibling Corrector and default parameters.

    The context menu turns to Remove Follow Turning

  5. Specify the Delay (in linear unit) to start the secondary passes.
  6. Select the strategy for the odd path in Treat Odd path list:
    • Alone at the Start: Odd pass corresponding to the primary machining operation is always the first pass.
    • Alone at the End: Odd pass corresponding to the primary machining operation is the last pass.

    Note: In both cases, the turret which is not involved with the odd pass moves from start location to end location for optimization purposes.

  7. Select the End Point from the list.
    • None: No synchronization at the end of passes.
    • End Of Lift Off: Synchronization at the end of Lift Off of both machining operations.
  8. Select tool compensations from the Sibling Corrector list.
    The Sibling Corrector displays all the available tool compensations on the sibling tool.
  9. Click Simulate or Display to check the validity of the Follow Turning operation.
  10. Click Ok to create a Follow Turning operation.