Use the Pull with Side Gripper Material Control Process (MCP) to feed the bar stock out to a specified position, with a Part Gripper mounted in the turret to support the part from the side.
When you select Pull with Side Gripper, the following settings are available on the Material Control Process Parameters dialog:
Tool Info
Tool Post — Select the turret where the Side Gripper is mounted.
- Turret #1 — The upper turret on slant-bed lathes or the front turret on flat-bed lathes.
- Turret #2 — The lower turret on slant-bed lathes or the rear turret on flat-bed lathes.
- Turret #3 — The third turret on lathes with three or four turrets.
- Turret #4 — The fourth turret on four-turret lathes.
- Tool Head — The articulating (B-axis) tool post. For single-turret lathes, select Turret #1.
Tool No — Enter the number of the tool station where the Side Gripper is mounted. This must be a one or two-digit integer.
Tool Offset — Enter the offset number for the Side Gripper. This must be a one or two-digit integer.
Pull Distance(Zp) — Enter the distance that the Side Gripper pulls out the material. This is an incremental Z distance.
Process Time — Enter an estimate of how long it takes the Side Gripper to move from its safe index position at the start of the process, back to its safe index position at the end of the process.
Position Point
Xr — Enter an absolute X coordinate (measured from the center of the spindle) to position the Side Gripper before engaging the material to an X0.0 position.
Zr — Enter an absolute Z coordinate (measured from the face of the part) to position the Side Gripper before engaging the Side Gripper into the stock.
Note — Enter any note you want to be associated with the process.
User Data — Click to display the User Data dialog, where you can specify custom data (known as User Data) for the current Post Configuration file.