If you continue to have trouble, call your local dealer with your hack code and he will be sure to tell you to get lost...

Your users world wide will thank you, Best Regards,

Please look at Jack's Pictures. Looks like James, Greg and I have all been had! Jack is developing his own line of meat products and is currently beta testing V10. Heres hope that he gets a bad case of food poisining and leaves poor James and Jay alone... By the way Jack, I suggest that you may like to develop your very own Mustard Flavoured Coolants...

Ying, Thanks for your information. My post was to outline that the standard has already been set that Math Functions are inside a standard editor shipped with a CAM system (EDPlus with SmartCAM, circa 1988)! By having the features available on the OEM product shipment but no longer when I upgrade from a link on this very website, is saddening. Please tell the marketing department that we the users are demanding this as a standard feature.

Blue-Goo and the other sticky residues found inside machines are a result of synthetic and semi synthetic coolants. The mineral oil based coolants are most user friendly of all and Blasser is the king of these. If some sales person states that his coolant is the most user friendly and eco-concious, serve him a tall cool glass of the stuff. If he drinks it, buy it as the worst that will happen is a bad case of the squirts. Dermotitis is caused from a host of things and a contributing factor in this is PH. This needs to also be monitored As well as coolant concentration. Adding Water to Coolant. All soluble coolants contain a surfactant product that acts as an emulsifier. These emulsifiers look and act like a pin. There is a pointed end and a round PinHead end. The point will attach itself to the oil droplet and the pinhead will act as an attachment mechanism to the water droplets. If you add straight water to a coolant solution, there is no emulsifier in the mix and you run the risk of having a second phase in the emulsion (Straight Water). Droplet size is another important feature of the equasion. The smaller the droplet, the higher the lubricity of the emulsion. This is why after time James notices that his coolant performance is lower that when new as the droplets under brownian motion have collided and combined into larger droplets. Draw an accute angled wedge and then draw two tangent circles, notice that the smaller diameter circle is closer to the point (Cutting Edge) and will offer better protection and heat removal that the larger droplet. The JetMix units with the Blasser system will atomize the coolant and make the proper mixing ratio to refill a tank. Keep the tramp oil off and the coolant mixing (Thru use!) and a changing schedule of every 6 months and you should be ok. Check into methods of coolant reclaimation, as the hazzardous oil waste can be expensive to dump out...

Perhaps one should grab a box of salt and dump over their CPU's as many grains will be required to continue thru this thread. Maybe we should schedule a good old fashioned punch up at IMTS - Last man standing, winner take all!! V10 - What a laugh, Lets live thru and validate the V9 lifecycle first. [ 08-19-2002, 11:14 AM: Message edited by: MfgEng ]

Inhouse is Excellent. Maude is the one to get things done. Thanks dear!

V9 Cimco OEM version - On a fresh install of MCAM9 using the CIMCO editor, there are some cool math and tranlsation functions available. To find these, go to the setup/show toolbars/<> and select this - another set of icons magically appears between search and line numbers. However - when installing the version off the CIMCO webpage - this nifty feature will disappear and never be seen again. If anyone is listening - the math functions on all my other editors are a standard. Even EDPLUS in the mighty SmartCAM suite had this as a standard. I guess it takes awile for the rest of the planet to catch up! (LOL)

Let me interpret. The part is a casting or forging of some sort that requires a facegroove to bo finished. The tool is a form tool as well?? If so, only use a facetool, and then use the deepest edge as the contour and don't worry about backplot. If you require to profile the groove - either out of solid or a casting, chain the facegroove geometry and then use the stock boundry as the outside of the groove. Play with the settings on the tool paths a little and you should be ok. Also look at the tool page an explicitly look for the tool setting corners as this will greatly affect success. Also remember that a lathe is X(Diameter) and Z(Linear) and if you are specifying a size using X that it will be a diameter (ie - offset a RADIAL amount above centerline). Lathe paths are easy to produce, making them correctly is the challenge...

Jack, Although you are taking a lot of heat here, I commend you for not hidding behind some goofy name and putting your identity to your comments. I have never met or spoke directly to Jay or James but they have my respect as they have provided some valuable advice and from the content of their posts show that they indeed know what they are talking about. I have met the other type of "Instructors" that you mention and find that there is no value there as a technical resource but they do accomplish their end of Education in the dicipline of using a software package to generate GCode. If they could magically transform people into experts, then I would be easily displaced but as it turns out, they can't so I am safe... I should like to continue a further discussion and personal meeting with you as we work in the same area. Are you at the plant on Elgin Street? If so, when do suggest we meet as I need a good tool shop to add to our AVL? Regards

Setdirs gives a global solution, if I edit the config file and set the path "Manually", then copy over the .prm and .op9 into the required directory, will this accomplish what I need? So far, Glenn's solution is working not too bad, although I had a file lose its tools on export operations to group. Has anyone had this before and what is the mechanism of failure here so I don't repeat the same.

What are the accounting rules - Is software considered an Asset if you licence its use but do not own the code??

Carl, I agree that for content or quality - post count is not the measure of success. But for forum use, post count is accurate as this indicates level of participation. Help and be helped - A net-community coming togeather in persuit of something bigger and better.

Perhaps we should analyse the current distribution of post counts and set the bar at the 75 percent level where 75 percent of forum members (With valid SIM code) are elegible. If this is automated feature and it adds to the level of interest in the forum, then a lower point would be suggested. IMHO The types and quality of the postings from members are easily seen from the content of their messages and so I have no objections to the Member Levels only in that this is not an endorsement as to their knowledge of the software. Look at poor Allan, he only has like seven posts and he is the smartest guy I know (He just works...) (I now have +3 Flame away bullines)

Yeah!!! I make the new cut!!

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Thad - Corrupted file is the problem, I changed something and now it will not export the tool information reliably for that particular model. Glenn, Thanks...

Thad, I keep returning to the default. I am also having a nightmare with one particular operations file that will not work. The default location for the tooling and everthing else is set to the C:MCAM9 - Defaults at startup. Is this where Mastercam gets the directory location from?? Thanks,

When importing an operation group (OP9) file into MC9, where do I set the default directory so that I can access from the network. Default is set to C:MC9LATHEOPS*.OP9 I want Z:OPS*.OP9 Looked under screen/configure/files - No Glory. Thanks,

The upgrade to V9 will give more toolpath options for 5ax. If you wnat to drive the machine to its potential, make the additional investment. The first job you run will cover the costs...

Kevin, Inclination angle of the insert is important. I tried to use a G32 - Constant Lead Cutting cycle and found that the insert healed along the leading edge as it cut. Also the clearance angle on the insert did not work for a 2.5" pitch. Also the geometry of the holder needs to be inclined in the same direction as the insert.

Having only a son, I only have to worry about one xxxx - If I had a daughter, then I would have to worry about all of them...

Kevin, Try making a reverse image of the gear and assemble - or hack, them togeather to see if they fit and are relativly correct.

Kevin, From the look of your home page, there should be some old gear guy with gray hair and a beard that cut gears for Noah's Arc. He is the guy you want to help find out the profile. think in Z_X rather than the end view. I have a similar application on a twin screw rotary pump element and this is what we had to do to create a successful Pro/E Model.