Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd
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What I would like to get or see, is a full list of ALL the errors in Mastercam, and what they mean so we do not have to ask these sort of questions. chris f
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There is a great product called Camtasia or its cheaper brother Snagit. I use it all the time, great software. Regards chris f
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Hi Guy's, I have today had to remove all of the ball screws from my CNC due to wear. The main X axis ball screw is fitted into a fabricated housing which has a thread machined into it's OD. A large 110mm X 1mm pitch ring which is threaded on the external and has 4 holes for a C type spanner to loosen and tighten it, to retain ans set the ball screw. I cannot for the life of me find such a retainer on the web, because it seems I do not know what its proper name is. I need to replace it as it is damaged and I do not know what the proper terminology for this externally threaded retaining ring is. Can someone smart give me a technical term I can use to find a retainer like this on the net. Or am I doomed to getting one made. regards chris f
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Brandon, I have been using X for nesting recently and actually do find it a little better than V( and the backplot is awesome. When I first started using X I found it a little odd to set the various parameters that were common to me in V9, post up your file on the FTP and I will be more than happy to give it a go on my machine and see if I get the same problem. chris
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Custom safety zone in machine paramter?
Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd replied to RandleXX's topic in Industrial Forum
I have been reading the various colums and requests from Randle X and frankly to "you forum people" it sucks that all you lot seem to do is try your best to give him a hard time. I can relate to a lot of what he is going through and will go through with the software and I believe that sometimes him getting fed up and saying so is OK because a lot of the time when I have had issues, no one listened until I got shirty, then it was all hands on deck. I think his request here, is for me a good question, why can we not define ( or can we define ) all of the machine safe zones so that it is impossible to crash a tool into the bed for example, or as happens to me a fair bit setting the X Y datums and finding that the machine will not go there, IE Facing and the Overlap setups in the parameter page can take the machine out of limits. Sounds dumb of me but it happened today. The only machines I have come into contact with where this is a normal practise is Okuma. Is there an answer to his question or are we to prolong the BS. dis-enchanted with my fellow mastercam citizens. chris flint -
What will SOLIDS do for me?
Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd replied to Chuck K.'s topic in Industrial Forum
Jeez, I have been using router and art for about a year and I know Zip about solids. All I can say is when I got a 2 minute demo on solids it made my pulse race, I actually do not know why I have not got it, and from the above posts I feel ( and look) like a dinosaur. chris f -
I have a customer that gives me moulds to rout on the CNC router, they then take these moulds, add a surface coating and make carbon fibre parts from them. I started using hardwoods, but I got a fair bit of chip out that meant a lot of hand dressing. So I moved to MDF which seems good and everyone is happy, however, is there a better material which is homogenous and will rout fast without chipout and give a better surface than MDF. Procedure to date has been to "rough pocket" then to "parrallel spiral", then to "left over" the moulds are small about 300 X 200 X 55 deep and take around 5 hours to machine using a 0.2 stepover in the second and last machining operation any advise here? thanks chris f
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Missing F
Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd replied to Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd's topic in Industrial Forum
Thanks to all, i have sorted this out by removing th create arcs in anything except XY. Bob Hill also taught me how to unlock the highfeed so alls well that ends well and the cuzzie has got his job all looking good. regards chris f -
G18 problem with Highfeed V9
Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd replied to Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd's topic in Industrial Forum
Thanks Bruce, I am hoping Bob can get the USA off of their Ar$$es to solve this for the morning. chris -
G18 problem with Highfeed V9
Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd replied to Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd's topic in Industrial Forum
No Greg Bob and I tried the I and J thing and that was completely unsuccessful. I think that it needs: G18 G41 ( or G42)G3 X155.983 Y4.798 Z-52.55 R4.763 F1500 but I don't know so I will call the USA at NUM tomorrow and see if they can assist. thanks chris -
G18 problem with Highfeed V9
Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd replied to Chris Flint Two Ft Pty Ltd's topic in Industrial Forum
BernieT, the heix option is on in the control and th controller can recognize G18, but it seems that the information regarding the G41/42 is also a requirement in that it seems not to know where the tool offset should be either left or right. I cannot regen the file as I have been on an upgrade sim licence for testing ( I do not normaly have surfaces)and it was supposed to be renewed a few weeks ago bit it seems that someone is dragging their heels and it is not me, so I am screwed unless I can establish what other parameters to add by editing the existing gcode -
I have encountered a programming problem this is the first time I have used "HIGHFEED" to post an elaborate surface machining program and during the program run it crashed the controller with an error saying "In G2-G3, 3rd Axis programmed without helical option" ??? H ere is a part of the program where it stopped: G17 G71 G90 G40 M177 T8 M06 ( 3/8 9.525MM BALL END CUTTER TOOL8 TOOL - 8 DIA. OFF. - 8 LEN. - 8 DIA. - 9.525 ) G0 X4.763 Y4.798 M40 M03 M23 D8 S18000 M03 M111 Z25. Z-46.688 G1 Z-51.688 F2000. X9.403 F500. X14.043 F1000. X18.683 F1500. X23.324 F2000. X27.964 F2500. X32.604 F3000. X37.244 F3500. X41.885 F4000. X134.69 X139.33 F3500. X143.971 F3000. X148.611 F2500. X153.251 F2000. G18 G3 X155.983 Y4.798 Z-52.55 R4.763 F1500. It would "seem" from the crappy program manual that it might be looking for a G41/42 cutter compensation radius?? the tool is a 3/8th ball cutter. Anyone out there know how to solve this as I cannot rerun the whole program to take out the highfeed which is a locked value. thanks chris f
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When ever I use Highfeed on posting I get a problem in that the output Gcode has a missing F value on the first sequence line of each XYZ moves and I have to edit it in. Any ideas?
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