Hardinge SR200 MSY reference sites

[Daniel Harris]

Hi All,

 

I have a prospective customer who has this machine and is looking for a reference site using this machine w/ MC.

 

It would be ideal if you had the same machine , but something similar would do also.i.e Main Spindle,Sub-Spindle, C-axis on both spindles , Y axis and live -tooling (and bar feeder).

 

Thanks in Advance

[crazy^millman]

Ok I am really not trying to be the antagonist here. Do you really understand the can of worms you are putting yourself in for??

 

If it is a single turret for both spindles then not that bad still not fun, but not as bad as a dual turret for both or upper and lower turret machine in which I will tell you to look at Partmaker. I like the Mastercam product, but MMT is such a sore subject that it will take years for me to ever feel comfortable telling anyone to look at Mastercam for doing this type of work. I get it done, but I know we what are lacking so badly it is not even funny. I program our Mazak MSY 250 with it from time to time, but really let our set-up guy do programs for it most times since he is a good Mazatrol guy.

 

Can it program this type of machine? Yes.

Will it be such a learning curve that you will never hear the end of it? I give that about 90% odds of Yes.

Can you do some trick stuff with Mastercam? Yes.

Do you need to be a top notch programmer? 1000% Yes, if not be ready for some growing pains using Mastercam.

 

Partmaker is heads and shoulder above Mastercam when it comes to these types of machines and if they had a product ready today to test today I give it 24 months before it would be something you would want to sell to customers. Again what do I know I have only been machining for a little over 20 years and they have been making the software longer so take what a crazy person says for what it is worth.

[Daniel Harris]

Hi Crazy,

 

Thanks for the response. I am well aware of the status of MC vs others on MMT. This is a single turret machine and the customers are doing very straightforward parts and I feel that MC is more than capable enough for them. There is no Synching no wait codes no pinch turning etc.

[crazy^millman]

In this case yes they should be good with Mastercam and the abilities it has to do this type of work.

You will need to build a transfer routine for them, but should not be that big of a deal. If you need any help with a Demo give me a ring and I will be glad to throw something together for you.

 

HTH

[Daniel Harris]

thanks for the offer bu the demo is done and they seemed pretty satisfied. At this point they are looking for a reference - an MC user using this kind of setup