My first rotary table cut finally clicked 3 years later

I was running a Haas VF-2 at a shop in Cleveland back in 2021 and tried to use a rotary table for the first time. The part was a simple bracket that needed 4 holes at 90 degrees apart. I kept crashing it because I forgot to set my G54 offset for the center of rotation. Last week my buddy showed me his CAM setup for a 5 sided part and it all made sense. That bracket job cost me 3 hours of setup time and a ruined vise jaw. Has anyone else had that moment where something just clicks years after you first tried it?

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tessawebb17d ago

My buddy had the same lightbulb moment after ruining a $400 fixture.

keith_henderson17d ago

Man, I drilled straight through a pipe once trying to hang a shelf. @tessawebb knows that sinking feeling.