Does anyone have any cool AVI's?

[Ambassador]

I am looking for some cool AVI's of Mastercam, either showing some of it's powerful functionality, or a machine running on MC produced G-code. I have the High feed one already.

Thanks

Ambassador

[tirenut]

I am uploading a zip file to cadcams FTP site in the All pictures folder that contains two mpeg's right now. It is named Hermle.zip. One video is an up close tool shot, the other is a wider angle showing the machine movements from the same program.

They are from our Hermle C800U about a month ago when we were finally getting around to setting up our post in Mcam. The part is a section of a tire mold cut from steel and it shows 5 Axis swarf cutting pretty clearly. The tool transitions nearly 75 degrees from vertical to stay normal to the surface at all times. This type of cutting creates all kind of ulcers, but it's fun and it's all we do.

Sorry it's such a big file, but it is very good quality video and quite cool IMHO. It's hard to find good 5-axis video on the web. We've got lots more stuff recorded, but this is one of the few files that doesn't have the coolant on and spraying everywhere. Hope this is something like you are looking for. Let me know if you would like to see more.

*It's going to take a while to show up on the FTP site because it's taking quite a while to upload*

Brett Price

Athens Mold & Machine, Inc.

[cadcam]

Will be putting some mastercam ones togeather showing somw tricks or some thing.

Just need to put the time togeather.

[Allan]

Check out this page http://www.5-axis.com/Videos/index.html all the 5 axis toolpaths are Mastercam generated

[ 09-27-2001: Message edited by: Allan ]

[cadcam]

Ahhh good ol tri-tech.

Ben out there before they are people that make the 5-Axis add on head for the fadals.

And the owners of Varisurf.

[Bob]

Tirenut

Just downloaded and took a l k man how large are the files on a job like that?

[ 09-27-2001: Message edited by: Bob ]

[tirenut]

Actually, that particular program was relatively short ~50,000 lines or so. It only did the 5Ax motion and was for a small part that was to be a sample for one of our customers. They do get big though because most of the times are pieces are much bigger.

The program we have running on that machine right now is 1,101,276 lines long - about 60meg. No DNC on this stuff, it chews code in a hurry. With the Hermle's Heidi TNC430 control and 100base network connection, you can efficiently run very large files. The control has 2gig of onboard storage with infinate midprogram startup - very nice for what we do.

The program we are running now is a pretty typical one for us containing 3Axis stock prep, 2Ax waterline roughing, 3Axis semi-finishing and final finishing, and then the 4&5 Axis code for the final corner setting. Rubber companies will buy no internal radiused corners, everything must be square and sharp -which dictates multiaxis work.

I will admit though, we use NCL for most of the 5Axis parametric code, but for simple swarfing and cleanup, Mastercam works pretty well. Those pieces lose alot of weight in the process. From one fixturing it goes from 400lbs to around 115lbs on average.

I think this board is way cool because you get to see what everybody else is machining and how they are doing it. It gives you a little perspective on how tough the machining industry is and it's reassuring to know the good ol' USA can still pump out some of the tough stuff. Keep the chips flyin'

Brett Price

[Ambassador]

Brett, nice Hermle. Thanks for the video.

Ambassador