Okuma MU-10000H

[GoetzInd]

Tell your Okuma salesman to cut a check to Mr M and Doug.

 

Mike

[Joe788]

Well find out about support.. the boss cut a PO this morning .. going to do a turnkey on one of our vanes

in Charlotte before they tear it down and ship it out here

 

That's awesome. It's hard to comprehend this beast showing up and being the "small" machine in the shop.

 

How big/heavy is the part you're having them turnkey?

[gcode]

That's awesome. It's hard to comprehend this beast showing up and being the "small" machine in the shop.

 

How big/heavy is the part you're having them turnkey?

 

 

 

We've got smaller machines than this one

and bigger ones too

 

 

The vane blank is Ø51.25 x 7" tall about 2500 pounds

[YoDoug®]

I set up machine sim last night. I would also like to publicly thank Karlo for giving me the info to get started setting up this machine sim.

MU-10000H.bmp

[gcode]

Wow that is sweet..

[Joe788]

Pretty cool Doug.

[gcode]

I'll have to learn how to do that..

In my spare time

[Joe788]

Does anybody actually use Machsim? Whenever I see pictures like Doug just posted, if makes me feel like I'm missing out.

[?Mark]

Great visualization tool, but still an eye candy imho...

[GoetzInd]

Never used it. Haven't tried since I was told it doesn't support Top/Front. Is this correct?

 

Mike

[YoDoug®]

Never used it. Haven't tried since I was told it doesn't support Top/Front. Is this correct?

 

Mike

 

It does support top/front now but I'm not sure how to do the set up yet. I looked in the top/front sim that comes with mcam and it shows some translation commands that are not in the other machines.

[YoDoug®]

Great visualization tool, but still an eye candy imho...

 

I know they can tie it in to the post somehow but I don't know how much more accurate it becomes.

 

It is a nice tool though considering it is free with mcam. It's good for checking clearances and travel limits.

[gcode]

If you have a dialed in post and know your machine it can be very useful..

but it's still running NCI.. and in 5X toolpaths that have 2 solutions you can really get burned

if you're not paying attention

[?Mark]

"It's good for checking clearances and travel limits."

True, but not very dependable. Example: We have a program on our 800VH that has 4 toolpaths at A-15 deg head tilted. In SIM one of them is being shown to A+15 tilt. Posted code confirms all of them at A-15

 

Got to be careful

[mkd]

i found machine sim very helpful for a fake 5ax axis part i made.

it had a series of 5axis holes which i made on a 4 axis machine. second rotation was done manually on the tombstone. machine sim really helped to see which way to swing the part.

but like they said: the second solution will bite you once in a while.

[gcode]

I just returned from a week in Charlotte evaluating this monster.

We bought it and they are tearing it down this week.

By the end of next month it will be making chips in our plant.

I would like to thank Mr M and Yo Doug for thier help.

Their support and guidance made the evalution program a success.

In particular Yo Doug's machine sim file saved me from an embarrassing Oh Sh!t moment.

Long story short.. we ran a roughing program on a large vane we build here

The Okuma ran the toolpth in 5 hours with one set of inserts (5 pieces)

Our old JOBS gantry mill typically takes a 18 - 20 hours and 15 to 20 inserts.

[RaiderX]

Nice, am sure you will be enjoying that machine for many years to come. they are a really well built machine.

 

Doug

[Mick]

Congrats on the new purchase

 

Being a big Okuma fan, I caqn now say you are a fan of big Okumas... That machine is a monster

 

Makes our upcoming MU500 look like a desktop router.. LOL

[gcode]

Finally got this machine installed and running.

Here's a shot of the first part. Ø60" and 4500 pounds

I've ordered a post from our dealer, but it's not ready yet so I'm using

a post Okuma gave me.. none of the axis limits/ unwind stuff was set right

so I had to do all that.

I've ordered a Vericut machine as well, but it's not ready either so I'm flying blind.

Scary stuff...

Cimco Edit backplot and Mastercam MachineSim have been life saver.

[Joe788]

That's awesome. Did you step up the speeds and feeds a little more from your initial test back east? What's the material?

[gcode]

Material is A36 mild steel.

I'm running an Ingersoll 2" button cutter ( 5 inserts) at 800 SFM and .017 ipt (1528rpm x 130 ipm)

DOC is .085. It easily will take more, but I'll wait till there are not so many people watching

before I start looking for the upper limits.

We ran it at 150 ipm for a while but had trouble with chips getting welded to the walls by the cutter body.

Once the high pressure through coolant is hooked up, that shouldn't be a problem.

It took 6 hrs to do all the button cutter roughing... It would have run 2 or more 12hr shifts on our old wore out JOBS gantry mill

I bought 2 identical sets of cutter bodies and facemill holders.

I swap them out every 30 minutes. That way the machine says running while the operator rolls inserts on the 2nd cutter.

[RaiderX]

Thanks for sharing. thats what machinist dreams are made of and some people call me weird pft.

[gcode]

Thanks for sharing. thats what machinist dreams are made of and some people call me weird pft.

 

yup designing fixtures, tracking down tool holders and battling with the post has pretty much been my life lately

[Mick]

Looking great gcode!. You must be in your element right now

 

I can't wait until our MU is here. Ok, sure, its a baby compared to that, but I know I will have my brain working with it.

[robk]

Looks good Tom