The suspense is killing me.

1 hour ago, Chally72 said:

For the Beta period there's some licensing hoops to make it available. If you want to test it, please reach out and we'll get you sorted to use it during the Beta cycle. Dan Parry, the product owner, posted about it in the official forums- you can contact him through [email protected]. 

awesome.  Thank you

Anyone get 3 axis deburr to work without a multiaxis license like it states?  I'm guessing they forgot to make that accessible to full 3 axis seats.

16 hours ago, SuperHoneyBadger said:

Just imagine if those Norwegian black metal guys had a steady supply of Mag chips back in the 90's...

I spit out my drink.  HAHA.  Varg just going nutso with magnesium

Another fun thing is to bring home a bag of chips to throw in the bon fire for the kids.  Especially fun in the winter with snow.  Throw snow on top of the burning magnesium and it goes insane.

Heavier finish passes.  You don't want thin chips.  Like Ron said, no dull tools.  Don't leave machine unattended.  Make sure you're not piling up chips inside the machine to mitigate issues should a fire start.  Water based coolant seems to oxidize the xxxx out of it.  Keep that in mind.  Preferrable to run straight oil.  If this is a machine that you run water based coolant in you'll destroy the coolant pretty quickly as the magnesium causes the hardness to skyrocket and the emulsifiers decide to go home (coolant splits.)  Other than that can't think of much.  I've machined a fair bit of it without issue.

Schunk makes some really nice ones.  Had them setup on a robot cell at the last place I worked.

19 hours ago, JB7280 said:

What am I missing here?  You used a flat bottom drill, to mill a slot?

Sounds like they milled the walls first leaving stock on the floor, and used the flat bottom drill to finish the floor.  Interesting.

19 hours ago, crazy^millman said:

Since I have always used a Stock model as my first operation in Mill i didn't notcie a difference when doing this in 2024. Guess it is about time the software caught up to what I was already doing.

ah maybe this is what I was experiencing as I did the same.

22 minutes ago, AHarrison1 said:

New to 2024

You sure?  I swear I used this same method in 2023 as well.

On 12/29/2023 at 6:17 AM, rgrin said:

Remove the stock on the bottom and bolt it to an angle plate. Then use a key seat cutter with necessary corner rads

Exactly what I was going to suggest as well.  

Is the slot entire length of part (has open ends?)

6 hours ago, JParis said:

@Matthew Hajicek - Singularity

I had this issue dropped on my desk and considering the use you have in mind, I thought this may be of interest to you

https://www.additivemanufacturing.media/articles/dmg-mori-build-plate-pucks-cut-postprocessing-time-by-80

 

That's pretty damn clever

On 11/16/2023 at 8:56 AM, Harry33 said:

I was getting the same error while doing circle mill. I unchecked the helical entry and it is working fine now.

Must be a fancy wire edm doing helical entry and all

Right now just one 3 axis VMC that I'm in front of all day.  How the current shop is, you are the programmer, the setup, and the operator.  Previously at another job several 4 axis VMCs, a few 3 axis VMCs, a 2 axis lathe, and two wire EDMS.

Been using bambu lab x1c since april for all kinds of stuff.  Printed almost every material it can print.  Also have a flashforge creator pro that I've modded quite a bit to get it where I wanted it to be.  Even so, the x1c blows that thing out of the water in terms of print quality and speed.

I really hope the computer running that isn't connected to the internet or their network for that matter.  

16 hours ago, JParis said:

I've not used an ATi card for 8 years. That said, in my experience they worked, sure but that always had shortcomings. Has it changed? Don't know...I'd be leery if I got a new system with one...

ATI hasn't existed since 2006...

On 9/16/2023 at 4:50 AM, PGcam said:

How do you set delta = 2?

Instances 2 is what he means I believe.

16 minutes ago, jpatry said:

That sounds almost preposterous, as all top end workstations are Xeon only,

 

But on  the initial subject, today I found out about the multithreading manager settings, and that appears to be where most of my bottleneck was.

Mastercam by default was only using 4 threads

He's not wrong.  Mastercam benefits from speed (frequency) of the processor not core/thread count.  

7 hours ago, lauryfriese said:

BROOM PROGRAMMING 

LOL

15 minutes ago, #Rekd™ said:

If the solid has no history you can add history then suppress these features. I would do this on a copy of the original on a new level.

 

oooh.  I like that.  

9 minutes ago, TERRYH said:

I got this to work on one part on all but one of the holes gave me an error, on another part it worked on all but 3 holes and gave an error. On both parts it worked on all the bottom thru holes the errors were given on the top counterbores.

In the cases it does not work try using push-pull to extend the hole (if blind) out of the part and then delete the now boss feature. 

I'm sure your reseller would be happy to walk you through it. 

Create two chains and use loft to create one surface is how I usually accomplish this.