Kyle Waters
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so you are milling the end face? Either way, you basically need a rectangle chain to constrain the face mill toolpath, afaik. Create a rectangle at the proper z, use that for your chain, should be good to go.
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Are you using mill or lathe? sorry should have read the whole post first
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Thanks to all that have helped me, and thanks to Dave and In-House for providing the place for me to be helped,with my Mastercam problems anyway.
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Not knowing what capacity you are looking at, have you looked into the Mori NZ series? I don't think any other company is offering dual turret, dual Y axis option right now.
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Paul, The videos on the Mastercam site made it pretty clear for me, I think they are well explained. I actually thought I had it until a few days ago when I was corrected, that's when I watched 'em. I think I have it now....until the next time
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drexen, I always set my c-plane to lathe dia. first, then simply draw 1/2 of your part in the X+,Z- quadrant. Does that help at all?
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Logitech Orbit on the right, Space Pilot on the left, and just so my hands don't get too lazy, I got a G11 gaming keyboard too. It has 18 recordable keys plus 3 more modifiers for a total of 54 customizable keys!
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whoops, doubled it
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Mike, Yes Yamawa is the brand name. The numbers on the tap I have: EBYC01 P3 HSS-E N-PO Here is the US contact info: YMW USA NORTH ST. GREENFIELD,MA 01302-0513 U.S.A. TEL: 888-969-8277 FAX: 888-969-3299 [email protected] HTH
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Mike, Do you have any access to Yamawa? We use an M2 x .4 ticn coating in 4140 43-45 hrc, 381 rpm 6 ipm, rigid tapping thru hole. Water soluble oil, 1.65mm drill.
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Failure to retain edits in duplicate .CONTROL files
Kyle Waters replied to Guayaco's topic in Industrial Forum
are you editing the control definition through the machine definition manager? otherwise it's only a temporary change... -
Another Post Processor Question
Kyle Waters replied to GroupAero Seattle's topic in Industrial Forum
Chris, Welcome to the forum! If I am not mistaken, you should be able to change this in your Machine/Control definition settings. -
1 "programmer"/operator(me) 1 shift, mostly production work 10 machines total: 7 Okuma VMCs 4 w/ full 5 axis 3 w/ 3+2 1 Okuma 2 axis lathe 2 Mori Lathes 1 NL2500 Y & C axis, sub-spindle 1 MT2000 dual turret, sub-spindle
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Well as I said we only do positional work with our 5th axis, pretty simple stuff compared to some of the things that I have seen around the forum. Basically you do all the pick-ups on the table, and put those values into a program, then the program pulls the angle from the zero sets table, and does a little math. If you are interested in more info, let me know. But you could pretty easily draw up your lines in 2d to find the center of rotation. I think some have even modeled the entire table.
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kazmir, no probes or tool setters on those Okumas? We only do positional with our 5th axis, I made a calculation program for the machines that runs under a G code macro. Then it's easy to move the files around.
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Easiest way to create this simple geometry
Kyle Waters replied to neurosis's topic in Industrial Forum
Neurosis, If the angled line is based on the bottom(or top)across line, can't you just create a new c-plane using the two lines so that your z axis is perpendicular to the angled line, then xform translate .1 in Y? I am at home, so I hope that came out right... -
Thanks John, I'll give it a go!
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well I was way off base...
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jford, would you happen to have anything for an "ultra-classic elctra glide"? Father-in-Law's bike, would make a great b-day present....
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JZR, Welcome to the forum! I am assuming you are talking about a milllathe file, there are various output options in the header for the things that you would like to see. I believe you can find these things in the pheader section.
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So, will this open the door for "history" between the cad system(inventor), and Mastercam? If we get a part similar(like a size adjustment), would this be beneficial?
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Jim, Could you put up a screen shot? I am having trouble "seeing" it...
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We bought 2 custom posts from In-House. We use one on 3 MC4VA machines all with OSP5000M controls and Tsudakoma TN200 tilt/rotary tables that only use M codes. The post works it out to write all 3 programs. The other we use for MB56VA and 3 MB46VA machines with either a P100M or P200M control. All these machines are full 5 axis capable, but we only do 4 axis, with 5 as positional for compound angle holes/surfaces.These 2 posts probably saved me an average of 3 hours a program. Chris is the man that handled it all, sweet work.
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James, I opened up your file, and using the mplmaster machine and control definition, I switched the axis combo to upper/right, and I also mchanged the depth and rapid points to match drilling on a sub spindle. I put the file back as lathedrill backwards-1. Is this what you were looking for?
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multiple MCX toolbars in inventor
Kyle Waters replied to Mike@Dive Lab Inc.'s topic in Industrial Forum
Mike, picked this up with a search... linky HTH