mkd, Thanks, I will try and put something up to show what we do. It will be stripped of the parts that took me more than a few days to get done(I hope you understand). kool, Usually, I use the back end of the part set at Top/World origin, and create my tool planes from that. In-House (Mr. McIntosh) put this beautiful post together.

If you write a macro to calculate the rotated distances in the machines, you can set up your part to use top WCS, move your Tool planes to get the correct rotations, and use your G10 values from Mastercam in your calculations. That is how we do it, except we have Okuma mills. Then you pull in the different values for your stack ups into the macro. I have this on 7 machines with 4 different controls without issues.

If changing the calibration data on the CNC is not on the table, you can just create a new adapter in the Zoller specific to each machine. Then when you create the Machine in the Zoller database, select that adapter, done. This is only a workaround, Joe already gave you the best idea.

Good Afternoon All, I was wondering/hoping that someone might have some information on regular expression formatting and command line options for Cimco Edit V6? I can't find even a mention of either in the help file. Thanks in advance.

Very nice look and feel

That is odd. Is there anything against using the MPMaster post?

In the post it says that the axis labels in the machine definition are not implemented. So, back up your post. Then look for the variable "srot_y", and change "B" to "A". Save it and see if that works for you. I hope that helps...maybe someone that knows what they are talking about will correct me.

I added a inch file on the FTP HORIZONTAL_AXIS_SUB.MCX

Landscnc, did you substitute for X? I just grabbed the as-shipped Generic 4 axis HMC machine def and post, created some letters in the front plane at 4.5" in Z, chained them, substituted the X axis, it looks good. code: N104 T235 M6 N106 G0 G90 G54 X0. Y20. B90. S3500 M3 N108 G43 H235 Z264.3 N110 Z119.6 N112 G1 Z114.3 F9. N114 Y15. Z114.307 B89.351 N116 Y10. Z114.329 B88.702 N118 Y5. Z114.366 B88.054 N120 Y0. Z114.417 B87.406 N122 Y4.168 Z114.483 B86.759 N124 Y8.336 Z114.564 B86.112 N126 Y12.504 Z114.659 B85.467 N128 Y16.671 Z114.768 B84.822 N130 Y12.504 Z114.892 B84.179 N132 Y8.336 Z115.031 B83.538 N134 Y4.168 Z115.184 B82.898 N136 Y0. Z115.351 B82.26 N138 Y5. Z115.532 B81.624 N140 Y10. Z115.728 B80.989 N142 Y15. Z115.938 B80.357 N144 Y20. Z116.162 B79.728 N146 G0 Z264.3 N148 Y10. B77.799 N150 Z122.241 N152 G1 Z116.941 N154 Z117.257 B77.106 N156 Z117.589 B76.417 N158 Z117.938 B75.731 N160 Z118.304 B75.05 N162 Z118.687 B74.373 N164 Y7.5 Z119.03 B73.794 N166 Y5. 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Shawn, Are you looking at the lower turret option? I was just told that DMG is ready to get REALLY aggressive with pricing to get a foot in the door. We sold our MT2000SZ a while back, but I don't miss the work syncing the turrets manually. Our post was from In-House, and the code was good. Just the syncing. I also can't help with the Heidenhain or the Seimens controller, but if you get an NT, you get a "free" seat of Esprit....I do know that on the NT, you need to upgrade to get .001 on the B axis.

on some of the older controls, switching from rapid to feed for short moves actually costs you time. You may get a bit more by keeping the G1 and using your max cutting feedrate.

You don't have to export them first, you can import operations directly from another Mcam file.

All of the Fanuc machines I have ran have had a key sequence of some sort to access the variables. Once on the page you could adjust from there

I would check the edge prep on the insert. From the sounds of it, you need to be looking at a very small honed edge, if any at all. The downside is there will be a suffering because of the hardness. m2c

Thanks Greg, Is it for sale in the US?

Greg, That ROCKS! Is that an LU? I assume with a P200 and what other goodies to accomplish that?

I know you definitely had my interest. Hopefully someone has some info.

oh, and nice work Greg!

The link is gone, anyone have any info on that machine?

First time 1m 38.624s Second time 20.794s Dell Precision M4400 Intel Core 2 Duo T9800 @ 2.93GHZ 8GB of RAM Nvidia Quadro FX770M Vista Business x64 WD 596GB 5400RPM Hard drive

Tooling, Do you have a folder called "Templates"? Mine is File/Open/MCX/Templates Then there are the various sheet sizes there.

You can create a simple 2d profile from the dxf, and save it as a file on it's own, or put it on a level in the part file. Only half of the tool should be used, starting at origin.

Have you done a search? There are some post/probing whizzes on this site, and there is a bunch of information on this.

When I started learning the WCS, I had some huge gripes. All the work I do is 3+2 with some simultaneous 4th for fun. For me, when I thought of Mastercam as only a tool for machining, the WCS makes perfect sense. In a machine set-up, you would never eliminate the basic axis combinations, but you can establish new part orientations based on the work you are doing. To me this is what the goal is. But I am not in the same league with many of the guys here that have years of experience with the software, so I may be completely off base. JM2C

Good Morning All, When I transfer a part to Vericut, my holders are still the generic holders defined in the tool setup page. Is anyone else getting the holders from the holder libraries? Thanks in advance