You could also look at the vm line from milltronics heard good things from them and what are options for the Haas alot is standard on the milltronics. Also if you sometimes machine oversized parts they can hang off the table some.

Thanks for the link.

that must really suck cutting all that alum. all I seem to get is 304l stainless, wish I could cut some alum. from time to time.

Xeon is an Intel product I believe.

now thats pretty cool, that the machine supplier would reply on this forum, I have always wanted a Matsuura for my shop but we have just been in business for a few months and I am pretty sure that I wouldnt get financing. Anyway I can always dream.

welcome aboard im still kinda new myself, but these guys are great and will help you out if you get stuck, just dont ask for a post. You want like what they say.

can you increase stepover to get it to verify, then decrease the stepover when you feel like you got it the way you want it?

I also uninstall my old video drivers before I install the new ones.

man they seem to be chewing up your part, but if you get correct code and learn something at the same time thats a win win in my book.

I called Renishaw and they emailed the manual in pdf form. It is 200+ pages so dont hit screen print.

i would use groove chain and select a face groover with full radius. groove neg. with one finish pass. also nice drawing.

I would use the larger radius as a check surface and leave a few tenth stock, and keep gap large.

you have to be careful if using m97 on horizontals with pallet changes. You may run into issues with nesting to deep in the parameters. Some machines can only nest 4 or 8 times and then alarm out. Had the problem on Haas Ec-400's, would also alarm on our vert.'s if running multi. fixtures also.

sorry it posted twice.

it would be great to add more options for the open pocket milling. I use it all the time and if it could rapid alittle more between cut it would cut cycle time alot. When you use open pocket method it starts at 125% off of the part why not rapid at this point instead of feeding.

it would be great to add more options for the open pocket milling. I use it all the time and if it could rapid alittle more between cut it would cut cycle time alot. When you use open pocket method it starts at 125% off of the part why not rapid at this point instead of feeding.

I see this all the time in the machining world. Company's buy the top of the line machines mills or lathes then skimp on the tooling or software. If you want the best out of the machine you cannot go cheap on the support end. Would someone buy a 200,000. dollar car and put tiger paw tires on it, I dont think so. Why Spend xx,xxx. on Mastercam X Level3 multi axis and run it on a cheap computer. Im not saying that is what you are doing, just asking and getting info on new cards is a great step in the right direction. I just wish that managment could see that staying up to date with support tools (computers, trying new endmills, inserts and stuff) could have a great turn around in the investments they make. I will most likely get flamed for this but it really does take money to make money. Yes i have my own business and I am building it more everyday, so I do know how much it takes to run a machine shop. I know of shops that have been around for years and they are still stuck in the old days, there machines are run in the ground and they could replace or repair them but they have become so use to the work arounds. The machines cannot even mill a round hole, aw just put a boring head in and let it go. That sucks, if you would just fix the machine you could just mill it and not have to setup the dang boring heads all the time.

one word of caution, don't ask for a post for your machine. they don't like that, but they will help with minor tweaks and stuff and steer you in the right direction. I have learned alot of helpful info from the good folks here.

what would this material be used for.

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i used the drill out the corner trick in 304 ss. .125 2 flute emill .67 deep it took forever but never broke an emill, I was able to use some of the tolerance 1/64 +- so i went .012 larger radius and no chatter at all .05 depth of cut, 2 finish passes .007 per pass.

if you have to go back to v9 its like stepping back in time you feel almost lost and very slow.

the divide is so much more than it used to be I use it all the time. the wcs and the levels managers are alot easier to use. I like the zoom in and out with the mouse scroll, it zooms in relative to cursor position.

at least its not a siemens control on a lathe it takes 7 steps to shoot out a file and 8 steps to receive a file. That makes for a long day running short run parts, one-offs and the like.

i remeber a thread awhile ago that had a file on the fpt site that you could download and test how long it would take to refresh a toolpath. the people that had the shortest refresh time had 7200 and 10000 rpm hard drives. It seemed to make a huge difference in the time. Maybe someone will remeber that thread.