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Jasonhsr

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  1. I have never had to do that on this machine. I will investigate and get back to you when I have what you have asked for. Thank you for your time.
  2. Sorry it has taken me so long to get back. Matsuura installed a 3rd spindle in our MX330 since its arrival April 2019. We were charged for the last spindle. Here we are a year later and the spindle is getting noisy again especially mid-RPM (3000-8000). when we stop the machine, the spindle is cold to the touch and spindle still turns fairly normal. I say fairly because today, after being a bit noisy, I rotated the spindle by hand an there was resistance which went away after a few turns. we can not hear bearing noise like the last 2 times. The sound is a whine at varying RPMs and the problem is intermittent. For the last several weeks, the machine has sounded normal with the whine only returning yesterday. I really have no clue at this point. we are running inch and balanced assemblies.
  3. I am not able to get the machine parameters at the moment. We are running inch units and our assemblies are balanced.
  4. I personally am not advanced enough in Camplete to be able to confidently handle these changes. That is why I was on the phone with Camplete and they were remotely making the changes as i read them off to them. Again, they are very good people to work with but I was told that some of the changes simply could not be made. I know how that goes, anything is possible. I was definitely ok with changing my mindset on how I was programming or processing the job to make Camplete give me the result that I wanted but we just couldn't get there.
  5. Our MX-330 was installed and making chips 4/2019. Around 2/2020, after the second spindle was installed, we ran our normal tests while the technician was on site and signed off on the repair. Within a day we resumed a production run on the machine. I went back to programming while the machine was running. Much to my suprise, I went to check on the machine and it was in the alarm state. This was a new alarm to me but was clearly indicated by the control. We called the technician and they confirmed that they made the parameter change and we would need to change the post. We were a little upset that we were not made aware prior to them leaving our facility. Not a big deal but there was definitely a little confusion on our end.
  6. I have actually seen the opposite on other machines. I thought that it had to do with the rotary union? Not 100% sure but after the 2nd spindle Matsuura came out and changed a parameter that will alarm the machine if the TSC isn't turned on/off with the spindle stopped. That is why, a year into running the machine with Camplete's post, we requested this to be changed. I was told that Camplete worked hand in hand with Matsuura to develop this post, therefore I never questioned it. Some of the requested changes were strictly for making editing at the control more simple. While I strive to maintain a good source program in Mastercam, sometimes during setup, it is easier to change at the control until setup is complete. Not to mention that the editing (find & replace) feature on the GTech-31i is very slow. I say this because Camplete was posting out a tremendous amount of redundant information, which is safe but an editing nightmare on a control that appears to chug along one at a time.
  7. Leon, I am aware. I've spent many hours on the phone with the guys from Camplete and they are great people to work with. We found it somewhat cumbersome when assigning multiple work offsets to a job for close true position work. In certian instances we may need a handful of work offsets for multiple parts or particular features. We do warm the machine up and use Matsuura's EZ-5, which is nice and gets the job done 99% of the time when using TPC (g54.4). The machine position is accurate but sometimes we need to control a particular feature more precisely. I have attached one of our sample workpieces for Camplete and a request of changes. Camplete was able to handle 3 of the 9 changes. Hand editing even a few lines of code after post processing really opens up the window to error in my opinion. 3-3-2020 CHANGE REQUEST.doc
  8. Medaq, We programmed for the 1st year or so running a machine definition give to us from Matsuura, then posting and simulation through Camplete. Both spindles went out on this setup. Earlier this year we went through Cimquest and received a post through Postability and have been using since. I know that every shop has specific changes that they want for the output from their post but it seems like these guys work from the ground up every time. We are still working on post issues while trying to utilize the machine throughput. We are a jobshop so everyday new part, new fire to put out. We also have the 15k (high torque) spindle. I haven't heard any of the 20k guys say this. Thanks for you input.
  9. Leon82, We are aware of this and incorporated this program into our startup routine several months ago when they released it. We run warmup programs on all of our machines prior to running on a daily basis. On a side note, we do have the 15k high torque spindle. everyone that I've talked to has the 20k spindle. Not that it should make a difference, I've just not witnessed a Matsuura losing a spindle, let alone 2, in less than a year.
  10. Sorry it took me so long to respond. The issues we've had are as follows... 3rd spindle since the machine was installed. (2 blown spindles) Spindle growth / shrinkage of .003". (turned off the coolant chiller and problem resolved) Major surface finish issues. (Matsuura is aware and created "M138" code to slow atc speed and stop augers) Spindle knock when reversing during tapping cycle. (standard "G84") Matsuura MX-330 PC-10 90 ATC LNS 500 psi TSC LNS Coolant chiller Renishaw tool breakage Renishaw spindle probe I have been running and programming cnc machinery since 2001. I have run many Matsuura's in my time. All horizontals. (300 , 405 & 630) My current shop has 2 other Mazak 5 axis that sit right next to the Matsuura. Also very familiar with Makino 4th and 5th axis machines. never seen these particular issues on any similar machinery. I would never expect this out of a HAAS, let alone a Matsuura, so this is very strange to us. Thanks.
  11. I have been running a matsuura mx330 pc 10 with a 90 atc for the last year and a half. Numerous problems. Anyone else in the same boat?

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