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By request, here’s the collected wisdom of the Haas Answer Man as published in CNC Machining. So far, the collection mostly includes information from recent issues; we’ll be adding to it from the archives as well as future issues.
 

 

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Care & Feeding of Your Haas
Communications
Look What You Can Do With a Haas
Threading and Tapping
Mini Machines
Miscellaneous Topics
Offsets
Programming
Higher Productivity
Haas Rotary Products


Care & Feeding of Your Haas
Operating Temperatures
Calibrating Your CNC Machine
Sleep Mode / Spindle Warm-Up

Communications
Program Editing on a PC
Laptop to Haas
Floppy Disk Files
Downtown Time: RS-232 vs. Ethernet
Connecting Your Haas to a PC
Surfcam Download / DNC
DNC From a Zip Drive
Hyperterminals and PCs

Look What You Can Do With a Haas
Designate Heavy Tools
Timers & Tools
Tool Changer Restore
Beep at M30 et al. (Setting 39)
Auto Shut Down (Settings 1 & 2)
Hard Turning on a Haas
10K Time Limits: None
User-Defined M Codes
Faster Tool Changes (SMTC)
Feedrate Override
Restart in the Middle of a Contour
Authorized Users Only
Rapid Home One Axis
Fast Tool Changes
Dry Run / Graphics
Using the Graphics Display
Cycle Start / Feed Hold (Setting 103)
Run • Stop • Jog • Continue
User-Defined M & G Codes

Threading and Tapping
Left-Hand Rigid Tap
OD vs. ID Threads
Threading Spring Pass
Rigid Tapping
Multiple Start Threads on a Lathe
Threading (Lathe)
Thread Milling Macros

Mini Machines
Rigid Tap Holder
Mini Mill Machines Steel
Super Mini & the Coolant
Mini Mill Applications
CAM and the Mini Machines

Miscellaneous Topics
Bad Code Message
Lathe Performance
Verifying Toolpaths
Deep Boring Chatter

Offsets
Clearing Offsets
Cutter Comp Arcs
Cutter Comp for Lathes
Clearing Offsets (Reprise)

Programming
Pocket Milling
Helical Milling
Engraving Error Message
Circular Milling
Constant Surface Speed
Sub-Routines
Three (Programs) in One

Higher Productivity
Counting Parts per Bar
Haas Servo Bar 300 - Programming
Haas Servo Bar 300 - Alternative Pushes
Engraving with Macros (reprise)
Engraving with Macros
SL-3- Tailstock
Quick Code & Visual Quick Code
TL-15 B Command
Increasing Output
Pallet Changers
Family-of-Parts Macros
Tool Life Macros

Haas Rotary Products
Semi 5th-Axis Positioning
4th-Axis at Home
Indexing vs. Full 4th Axis
4th-Axis Feeds
Setting 30
Cylindrical Mapping / Engraving with a Rotary Table

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