I have a 3.600 diameter boring bar I am using 11.5" deep in a part. I have a face that is 10.5" deep that I need cleaned up to 4.05" dia to allow for the 100mm undercut tool to machine the undercut at that depth. I couldn't just run the 100mm undercut tool to depth because it was going to crash the center of the tool. I couldn't see spending $4k to build something on one part just to clean up the face. Been years since I have done this, but I just took the boring bar and used circle mill helix .005 per pass from the 3.6 to the 4.05 and go from there. Not sure how many every used the old school auto facers where they would hit a rod or you grabbed a knurled drive ring by hand and then scroll out the tool to a set diameter, but it is kind of the same principle expect I am making the boring bar into a big inserted milling tool.

I'm pretty sure you'll need to call a NET-hook from your post in order to do this. Posting in Mastercam only generates the NCI and related data for the selected operations.

Well if not then the customer is going to have it pony up for a HSK-100 holder, extensions and milling tool to reach. All I can do it give it a shot.

Rotary and tilted planes suck in Mazatrol. WPC Index unit offset unit offset back unit index offset unit I'd roll my box out if they said I could only use Mazatrol.

With Surface High-Speed Project, you can play with the Gap Settings, and the Chain Direction, to choose if you want to keep the tool down, or retract. If you "zig-zag" chain (next chain starts close to where the last chain ended), then the tool will "stay down" and you can get the tool to simply move from chain to chain, on your part. If all the chains are pointing the same direction, you can play with the gap settings to force the tool to retract at the end of each chain, and start at the next chain. Keep in mind that you'll need to "draw" your lead in/out moves, if you want them. Also, I usually take the "floor surface", and untrim, and/or extend it. There must be a part of the surface "below" the entire chain, or some of the chain motion might get "skipped" if there is no surface to "project onto".

So you want to use a pencil in that sharp corner? Might need to make a surface of just the area you want to cut and not drive to drive it through the whole solid would be my 1st thought.

Then you need to call a machine repair or tech company. Pullo is about as knowledgeable as they get and he provided information I have not seen in 25 years. Sorry you have an old machine, but you do and with that comes exactly what your facing.

RANT ALERT That's because too many companies put a premium on the lip service of training, without ever providing any, actual, meaningful, training. To many managers have been lulled (by the term "Button Pusher") into believing that automation means, any unskilled mouth-breather can perform the work, without the need for the company to actually invest in training the employee in more than how to clock in & out. That is exacerbated by the millennial's generational belief that they don't need any training, due to the fact that they have been getting trophies their whole lives for breathing in and breathing out.

ButButBut genuine heat shrink books all spout that their mtl is *special* high expansion mtl yada yada. Drill rod (silver steel) is just high carbon, but because it's ground good size and straight, is ideal for this sort of thing. For small tools (drills and taps) I used to use 10mm dia, and ream for the shanks and Loctite 603 them in. None ever came out and I've done it for 25 years. Edit, actually I just thought about how long and originally it would have been Loctite 601 and it's 32 years

RIP Tim Markoski

Well, your system specs definitely meet the minimum! Just to eliminate a faulty graphics driver, press the windows key/start button and scroll through your applications list until you find the Mastercam 2018 Demo folder. Click on "Advanced Configuration" and choose "Graphics support." Whatever the Hardware acceleration option currently is, switch to the opposite (i.e., disable it if it's enabled and disable if it's currently enabled). Then try to run Mastercam again and see if it still hangs on the startup tasks portion.

Speaking of... Tim answered me on LinkedIn. #5013 - Maximum Value of Tool Wear Compensation #5014 - Maximum Value of Incremental Input for Tool Wear Compensation Hope that helps if anyone else needs it...

That's because Mastercam is priceless . Gracjan

wow, i was just asking a question.