Burned an old Napster MP3 of "Friends of Mr Cairo" onto a CD and played it in the Jeep - Sounded terrible and could hardly make out all the quiet junk at the end - I guess I should look in the discount bins at the Walmart. Anyway - don't compress if you want to retain the quality.

What tool are you looking for - with lathe tooling, there is a great deal of overlap - although there may be a difference in the top clamp - the angles and dimensions on an MCLNR/L will be identical across the board. Turning is by far more standardized that are milling programs.

Check the FTP pics and gifs folder. There is some cool ones there.

After considering the exchange rate - answer is below. Original Charge $30 Refund $ 5 Total Charge $25 Clerks Take $ 2 New Total $27 Paid By Each $ 9 This works and there isn't an addition on the new total and clerk's take as the clerk's take is the delta between the refund and the new total. Almost missed it.

quote: Too scary for a FORTRAN guy. I Smell Watfor - another quality product of the UofW. I can't get my old 386sx to boot any longer or else I would still use the stuff!

Larry, This is an interesting question with the purpose of exploiting the relationship between Power, Feed, Speed and MRR. How may were successful? I didn't do the problem yet, but I will as a homework assignment... Chris - I'm with you - no one gets paid for tickling parts.

Testimonial case from the Sandvik Lit-Sup-T/R00.2 pg 153 Material - Steel 55HRC Vc (Ft/Min 395-920) Dc (mm - 10 or 0.394") S (rpm - 8915) Feed/Tooth (0.002") DOC (mm - 0.5 or 0.020") WOC (mm - 0.5 or 0.020") Speed - 39ipm This example is for a copy milling example. The surface finish in this example is critical as well as the tool life requirement. Based on your question - what you should really do is ask the Machine Tool Applications Engineer to do the home work for you and "Show" you what the machine is capable of and not just "Tell" you that the thing will do 600ipm. I will argue with anyone that thinks they are achieving an actual speed of 600ipm over short distances and changing directions in a surface milling application. Don't focus on the feed rates - focus instead on the accelerations and look for something that will pull serious "G's" Good Luck and look to OSG, Sandvik and some of the other High Performance Tools for help here - throw away all those side lock toos as Balanace and vibration are you new found enimies. That's all I have for a Friday pm - so good luck.

Matt, I reciprocate the thanks for the assistance over the short time that you have fired up this board. I have applied many of your suggestions and in the end, passed a little of the profit back to my corporate masters - thanks.

Thanks to all for the kind words - I would like to thank my parents and all the members of the acadamy.... Anyway, quote: I know that Andrew uses ProE but I was unaware that he might be entertaining UG as well. One must have more than one tool in his kit to be able to create anything, One day I hope to be in the same league as Kathy - notice that when she posts - no one can provide a solution to her problems.

Check out Dorian Tool's cut Knurling tools - they will make you a pile of money - they are costly to start with but will reduce your machining time considerably.

Tim Hollis, How do I sign up to be you replacement after you retire??

I will have to defer the sub spindle stuff to someone else - However, I can attest that your post processor is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle, if there is no subspindle functions there then you will not have a chance to be successful.

Contact the machine tool builder - if you had the proper parameters once, get them reloaded again. There may be a fee for this and once you have them - back them up on a regular basis.

quote: assuming of course that your service guys can figure out how to drop it in the ocean. Ouch!

Tried my suggestion and the Backplot looked terrible. Good luck.

quote: This means that if there are problems, and things do not work as represented, no one gets paid. You'll be amazed how fast you receive customer service response when your holding onto their payment. Magic to my ears. Drew, it looks as though you have a framework for success. I have a Zoller presetter and the thing is great - They are alos a service oriented company and the guy that I deal with is fantastic and his last name is Zoller!

quote: You can create this type of thread using the Thread mill operation. On the Thread Mill parameters of the operation there is a Taper angle that can be set. This is what they suggested?? I see from the code (G76) that this is a turning programm so thread milling is not an option here. The effect that you are trying to create is interesting indeed. What I would do though is to bore the hole with the chamfer and thread afterward. I know that you want the thread lead to follow some taper and gently come onto the shaft but the alignment of the mating parts in the assembly can be controlled by the slight taper on both parts as well. I have not tried this - but I think that you could add in a secondary threading cycle that was configured as a "Pipe" thread and that should do the trick - given that the start/end/compounding points are all the same. Post may need a little massaging as well to get the format as you want it.

Harry, I was waiting to see your Big V in this thread... Drew I am strenuosly reseasrching UG-NX and there is quite a bit of stuff in there - Price is not the object as you could buy and sell a dozen seats of MC for the ball park we are looking at. What kind of parts are you looking to make with this thing - is it a production job where you program it once and let the machine run for ten years or are you making one offs? I suspect that the machine as specified with all those tools - multiple presentations to the workpiece at one time - is for a high volume job and that once programmed, it will be fine forever. If this is the case - nothing will beat a pen and paper (or for the tech savy - Windows Notepad). This type of a machine is dangerous to post and run - so watch out and always include a line on the P/O - Purchase on Proof of Performance - and outline the acceptance criteria.

Ramp isn't the answer as there will always be an even amount of material length of engagment and the wear will not be distributed properly as the user is requesting. If this is added to the wish list for future versions - this type of technology would be applicable to high temperature turning profiles as well. Anyone from Marketing lurking??

What is the router - I am looking at building a small machine and would like some suggestions. Remember my ancestory and our genetic propensity at being "Thrifty" so think Junkyard Wars meets Robotica.

quote: Has anyone tried an ozone generator? Ionic Breeze / Coolant Filtration - late night infomercial potential here on the Machining Channel!

quote: When we purchased the software the fact that these were included in the high cost of the software was a selling feature. That is how many, many, many, seats of Mastercam were sold. I am sure you are not the only one that bought the software becuse of this and I agree that this is a change in the contract that you purchased version (what ever you have). One thing that you are experiencing in this transition is a new set of rules and a new covenent or contract for VX which has been hailed and prophecised more than JC himself as the saviour to all manufacturing enterprises in such tumultuous and troubled times. You still have options however to not purchase the upgrade and to exclude yourself from the maintenance contract. However, I am troubled on a daily basis that I can't get any support for my 386DX-16 running Win3.1.1 and a seat of Smartcam even though it still makes good programs that run well on our machines. Things do change - sorry.

RStuart You have already seen the posting for the integrex guy in your area - make the move and go for it.

quote: James: Took you 6 min. Dang you're good 4-1/2 of those minutes were spent proof reading for spelling and grammer mistakes J/K James...

quote: 'swag' Dave, Interesting Term - we use it as an acronym for "Scientific Wild xxxx Guess" When ever you need a cost savings number - Swag it... That's how I justified the Maintenance! [ 10-14-2003, 02:58 PM: Message edited by: Andrew McRae ]