hey Rob! How you ben bud? Was checking on you once in a while to see if you posted but never noticed. now I see you have 6 posts... sorry I missed them. To answer your question if, if the operation is "gosted" this means it will not be put in the NC file when you post it. If it's gosted there probably is a reason for it but if you want to turn it off you can right click on that operation and go to posting (on or off). I'll give you a call on my way to work.

In Imco’s defense this is a great place to work. They are real easy going and great to work for. For the past 5 years I could have worked at a shop 80km closer to home for better pay and I still chose to work at this place. They have a lot of fringe benefits that I will gladly disclose to anyone who is curious. Just email me.

LOL I guess that's just the way it is around here. This is why I'm headed west.

quote: What sort of $/hour just curiuos? I would suppose between 18$ and 22$/hour for the right applicant.

Here's a little more info. IMCO Job Offer

BUMP A great shop to work at.

Entity Attributes Manager turned on?

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Or maybe if your view is not on the same plane as the arc.

quote: where in alberta are you looking Mainly Edmonton and Red Deer at this point but I'm willing to go wherever I find a suitable job.

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Thank you sir.

Stuck in stone ages here. Someone willing to save that as MC9 for me?

A trick I like to do is turn on the slow corners, regen only the needed operation then lock that operation before turning the slow corners back off. That way I don't slow down the whole program.

Me thinks he takes his laptop to the throne.

Usualy your dia. offset screen is in the same place as your height offsets.

Just thinking out loud here. Could you maybe use your depth limit control and set your minimum depth below the peaks?

quote: for some reason i can't post the file on the FTP site FTP is down.

From 2 months ago...

And an average of 9 replies per topic is pretty good too. Show's how busy and helpfull this place is. Thanks again everyone.

This post did it for me.

You got mail. It isn't the same file I had put on the FTP site. This is the last one I just did. Works great!

Thanks all. I'm flying now! In the end, extending the surfaces and using projection normal to surface in my geometry (as per John's advice), did the trick. Kannon, Let me know if you'd like to see the final file I used.

Well axis substitution was working on a few parts but they were less then 180 degrees and had no flat areas. I tried to use surfaces for tool axis control and it seems to work well except for the areas it decides to skip. Anyone have a clue why it would skip spots when I use surfaces but not when I use lines?

Thanks buddy. I'm getting closer to what I need. I found that after I posted the file the code was not comming out like I expected. There were way to many "Z" and "Y" moves. So far 3d contour with rotary axis substatution seems to be working .The only problem now is my "A" axis is going to fast for the programmed feed.