Good Morning Folks.

We have recently switched over to Esprit for our general machining and mold building needs. For the most part I have the software figured out but I have one thing I am stuck on. When we program electrodes, we extract them in proe and save the whole thing as an assembly so when imported into Esprit the trodes are in the proper location and can be switched to the proper layers. Without reorientation the parts to align with the Global XYZ I set up different work planes and coords. for each trode. The problem is as some of you with experience know is that I can't simulate the tool path because it asks for another axis of revolution. I know I can fix this by rotating every part to the XYZ plane but would prefer not to since we like to have the electrodes in there natural location for the EDM operators on the floor to get the coords. from. Is there a setting I can change to fix this? Or a way to lie to the software but setting up a mock axis of rotation so I can simulate? If so how do I go about this? We don't have a 5 axis machine.


Thanks in advance.