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Good morning James, we have a meeting set up with Andrew Templin tomorrow to discuss our needs and timeline. Looking forward to digging deeper into the options and capabilities of the 100H. One question on the programming side, the Kinematic configuration of the 100H. Do you just use top as your WCS or Front like you would on a traditional Horizontal machine?
I am in the fortunate position to research for a new machining center to process some 34 X 15 X 10 in Inconel 725 parts.
My short list so far.
Matsuura MAM72-100H (personal favorite because of chip control)
DMG Mori Mono Block 85
Okuma MU8000V
Mazak i-800 NEO ( Not quite sure about this one, may have to step up to the 1050)
I also have a RFQ for Vericut, but the Matsuura comes with Camplete so that's a plus
Are there any other machines out there that I am missing? I have a meeting Thursday with the Matsuura salesman.
Thanks,
Ricky
Don't be afraid to try 2d dynamic toolpaths with custom entry chains, just a simple line and some additional slot width can give a drastically different path.
Just right click on the tool in the tool page within the toolpath and select edit projection. It will take you back to the graphics screen and you can move the model around and select a point on the model and a slider will appear and you can move that or just type in a value. Then hit enter and it will take you back to the toolpath page. Hope that helps.
I just built a new rig and there wasn't any RTX video cards available. So I've got an Asus ROG Strix RX6700XT for video and WOW is all I can say!! AMD has come so far with their drivers and it runs Mcam 2022 so smooth!! I've got an intel 11700k and a Z590 Mobo with 32 gigs of 3600 mhz ram running CL16, I put a 2 terabyte Samsung 980pro gen4 NVME drive.
I think the days of Radeon cards not playing nice with Mastercam are pretty much over. I know in the past they just didn't play well with open gl programs, but I took a chance and I can say it runs silky smooth! I loaded an XT model of a Haas VM2 off of the Haas website and man I can spin the model so fast and no hiccups at all. I put edge curves on all edges to see how it would handle that and smooth as silk still. I would not have believed it, but I am impressed!!
If you have a solid of your fixture and a solid of your part couldn't you use Model Prep, Align To Face? Just to get it close then only have to move it one or two more times.
You could do a surface finish parallel to finish the floors and use the island faces as check surface. You could do a zig zag or one way and even change the angle for a unique look. You would still need to use a seperate contour toolpath to finish the islands though.
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