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  1. I like IMCO or Helical, but lets be honest its Aluminum. As long as you have coolant it would be hard to mess up with any good 3 flt...
    3 points
  2. Won't touch it with a ten foot pole until I have no other choice. I'm still mad about being kicked off 7. Bought my first Window 10 system this year. Change is great, when it improves things. Change for its own sake is detrimental. Change that makes things worse is far too common. If you thought Windows 10 tracked and controlled you too much...
    2 points
  3. I really like the YG-1 Alu-Power endmills for Aluminum. I always say if you have chatter issues with them....you are doing something seriously wrong. For extrusion work you may need to play around with conventional milling areas that are weak, so they don't grab on you.
    2 points
  4. pretty soon everything will be subscription service. even your heated seats in your car lol https://reporterwings.com/news/automobile/ford-ceo-says-heated-seat-subscriptions-unlikely/
    1 point
  5. That's what I have been doing for thread milling. I was hoping there was a comp solution but I'm finding out that we may be out of luck. I may have to try to tapping. Although the lathe supervisor says he can't make that work. Oh boy. Thanks for the input. I actually met you at one of the Sandvik/Mastercam events in Socal years ago. Thank you for the opportunity and for you sharing your knowledge. It is greatly appreciated.
    1 point
  6. Not me anytime soon. When this laptop is on it's last leg and i have done all I can do to keep it limping along then I might switch. What I did is kept Windows 7 until the last laptop was unusable for Mastercam and Vericut. It is still working and my daughter uses it everyday for school. Funny when you have a kid using a laptop that is 6 years old that is still more powerful and than the best computers the school has.
    1 point
  7. Terry, See the attached doc. The only obvious issue I saw was the result of using the 'Solids to Surfaces' function with 'use original color' turned on. I will spend some time looking at that case. If you have any more details to provide that'd be great. Pete Terry XT File.pdf
    1 point
  8. Got it ... thanks. More later...
    1 point
  9. Spaceclaim opens them right up. Shoot me an email and I will email you the parasolids.
    1 point
  10. Light yellow coating for aluminum is zirconium nitride. Helical calls this Zplus. Not to be confused with the darker yellow titanium nitride.
    1 point
  11. I've been a big fan of iscar's chatterfree line. I ran out of machine with one of their 1/2" endmills full slot 1.5xD.
    1 point
  12. Their machining advisor is excellent.
    1 point
  13. Been a long time since I cut it I think it is more gummy than 6 series. I remember can be hardened 10 Series and was gummy before it was heat treated, but I would treat just like anything I am not sure of. Rough/Rough checked for movement, Semi Finish/Semi Finish and Check check for movement, finish big check for movement then finish/finish. Don't use Aluminum for fixturing and support it and dampen it where needed. Just no bid a project someone thought was a 30 minute Ti part. They quoted the job and got it, but now are losing on it and then decided to seek help trying to make it. I don't care if someone is supplying Material if it is a 3 hour part no matter what you throw at it it is a 3 hour part no amount of think and hoping is ever going to beat the laws of Physics. Funny to 3D print the part would be $40k and they cannot hold the tolerances they want the part made too, but think it is a $45 part to machine it.
    1 point
  14. If that is the case that is stupid up one side of the stupid tree and back down the other side of it.
    0 points
  15. I just finished up a program and had to move the part on the fixture. It shifted in the Y (HMC) by 0.75". The Y zero is located on the bottom of my part so that had to shift as well. I moved the part and Toolplane up in Y, but the toolpaths didn't follow the part. I cleared the geometry and re-selected my hole locations, but it's completely off now. What am I doing wrong??
    0 points

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