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Hey, all.
We have a fleet of 7 Rolands, from an older DWX-50, -51s and -52Ds, to a very new DWX-52DCi. Each machine holds slightly different tolerances, as you'd expect for a fleet of mixed age and machine wear. The difference is big enough that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for compensating for this on the 3shape side of things, nor on the Millbox side of things (so far as I know). Our current workflow involves queueing up jobs into a shared pool that are set up on any of the mills as they become available- we generally don't prepare jobs with a specific machine in mind unless it's a special case that needs the highest possible precision, or if it's a diagnostic/test job for a particular machine.
So: anybody aware of a practical method that'll allow us to compensate for every machine's eccentricities without having to prepare jobs for each specific machine? Preparing different 'profiles' for each machine to get the best possible result isn't difficult to work out, but we can't know which we should be using at the design or even CAM phases. We've talked it over and assigning a mill to a job earlier in the workflow just isn't workable, it would lead to way too much machine downtime and would introduce a significant new challenge of carefully managing 'assignments' across the multiple technicians who all share the duties of design and job set-up.
We have a fleet of 7 Rolands, from an older DWX-50, -51s and -52Ds, to a very new DWX-52DCi. Each machine holds slightly different tolerances, as you'd expect for a fleet of mixed age and machine wear. The difference is big enough that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for compensating for this on the 3shape side of things, nor on the Millbox side of things (so far as I know). Our current workflow involves queueing up jobs into a shared pool that are set up on any of the mills as they become available- we generally don't prepare jobs with a specific machine in mind unless it's a special case that needs the highest possible precision, or if it's a diagnostic/test job for a particular machine.
So: anybody aware of a practical method that'll allow us to compensate for every machine's eccentricities without having to prepare jobs for each specific machine? Preparing different 'profiles' for each machine to get the best possible result isn't difficult to work out, but we can't know which we should be using at the design or even CAM phases. We've talked it over and assigning a mill to a job earlier in the workflow just isn't workable, it would lead to way too much machine downtime and would introduce a significant new challenge of carefully managing 'assignments' across the multiple technicians who all share the duties of design and job set-up.