We build a bulkhead for a business Jet. It's flat on one side with pockets on the other. In the past, we have scraped many out of TOL. from warpage. Recently, I re-programmed this part with success and little distortion. Constellium, our material supplier was impressed with the part and asked to purchase one of these to take to the show. Of course, we requested permission from the OEM. They did grant permission as well as instructions to modify the part and rivet a name plate. This was displayed in there area of the Paris Air Show 2023. I am proud of this work. Thanks for reading, Steve Austin

@neurosis That is correct. The thread there will take you to the download page. Currently we have Free IKE Mill 3/4-axis posts for Fanuc and Haas controller. We have plans to expand this offering, which will include Lathe posts.

Is this the link posted in the sticky threads?

@Elvincnc There is some challenges with sending Lathe toolpaths into Machine Simulation, but we are able to simulate turning on the FD style mill with turning table. Here is an example of a DMU Duoblock FD I have.

Congratulations. It is nice when things we make can be shown to others.

Seemed like the place to hang - Dang - I musta missed all that Personally....I think it was to just break the gang up. To make people disappear. To make more go to the official site. To make dealers not embarrassed as they apparently were too embarrassed to recommend people to come here... #F'kinBedWetters

I think it had more to do with changes in laws and other things out of their control that meant they had to make a tough decision.

... and here I thought it was due to how feral the Americans got around election time... on a Canadian website...

The PTB here really don't get it, do they? Or perhaps they get it, they just don't GAF...? Seems they got personally butt-hurt and decided to cut off their own nose in spite of their face.

See the attached screen shot. You can set the version of parasolid you want to export there. Import is limited to the max version your seat of Mastercam supports. If you check the dropdown you will see the max version your seat of Mastacam can support for both import and export Every new release of Mastercam and SolidWorks, NX SpaceClaim etc support a newer version Mastercam 2024 supports import and export of parasailed versions up to 35 The only way to support a larger version of what you currently have is to update Mastercam to a newer release. If you are creating parasoilds in house you should set the export version in SolidWorks.NC etc to the max version supported by your seat of Mastercam

Very much interested in this one for the FD Weren't there supposed to be a free downloads for the basic posts that would replace the MPMaster posts? Did this idea get scrapped?

Tool Groups are your friend here. You have 5 tools you have 5 Sub Groups named each tool. 100 Tools then you would have 100 tool group under your min group for that Operation of machining. Here is one for reference:

I'd do it all in one operation, part it off to length with a slitting saw

The reduced end does not look round so you are most likely going to have to make this in one setup as there is no way to locate the part. We use 5C collets to hold parts like this using a fixture like these (to hold small round stock). https://www.eaglerockonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Wettstein-Tool-A1-210.pdf

IMHO you will never hit that tolerance with hardened D2 over that large of an area. Deboer isn't listing any end mills for hardened steels that I can see.

Hey.... we resemble that remark.

It along with 25,000 other topics and over a 1,000,000 answers went bye bye when the great purge of Off Topic Happened.

30 years ago the owner of the shop I worked in quoted a job for 30 foot long machine parts for a robot company. They wanted .001 flatness and parallelism with .0005 true position on 1000 holes with +/-.0001 on diameters across the 6061 Aluminum extrusions. Our longest machine was 60 inches. They were going to farm it out to a shop that had at the time a 50 year old manual machine. I laughed when I saw 20 hours to machine that part. They mistook 30 feet for 30 inches and .0005 true position for .005. and flatness for .01 and .001 on the hole sizes. They wanted 20 of these parts and they thought they were going to make a killing when they got the PO for 400 hours. I think after 6 months and never making the first part good they finally gave the job back to the customer. The funny thing was the end customer didn't have a CMM and hen i asked them how they going to check them they said well per the PO your company has to provide a full NIST traceable CMM report. I was of few people in North Florida at the time who even knew what NIST was. Jose came from Moore Tool who use to be the shop foreman there to work in our shop. I learned so much about machining tight tolerance parts from him. He said each part was $1,000,000 if he even attempted it, but didn't know of any equipment at the time in the world that could do it. He said that was their normal get lost quote to anyone who came with stupid stuff like that. I adopted that for jobs I did want to take over the years.

Was gonna say something else, but then I did a double take and saw the .0002 tolerance. This reminds me of when the company I work for quoted a job without looking at the fine print and seeing that the drawing incorporated by reference the customer's internal standard which stated that all such parts and resultant assemblies had to be machined and assembled in a cleanroom, three different and excruciatingly detailed cleaning processes, and finally put through an autoclave.

The other one that makes my eye twitch is when people use tool length offsets calculated from machine zero, and leave the WPC Z at machine zero to make it all work. Actually, wait, I just remembered something perhaps even more cursed, I was told, that by switching the control tool offset mode from radius to diameter that it would "make the machine twice as accurate".

Not just programming, I am much better on the grill now, that barbecue thread did wonders for me!!