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Thank you everyone, glad you like it!

Whew. Thanks hardmill. I still like my slogan though. Its a keeper.

Does this work for anyone other than myself? If it doesnt, my future as a software programmer looks pretty dismal. slogan- "Crappy software that doesnt work"

Built it with Vis Stud 08, running Windoze sp3. Im not sure if it will work for u or not.

hardmill send me an email to reply to, your address isnt working for me.

mail call.

Learning to dabble further into the world of programming. I made this small size calculator that I can drag around for feeds/speeds. Not to much to look at, but it works pretty good and if you get tired of it; can be uninstalled. Pretty lame from the larger standpoint, but a proud accomplishment by my own rights! I put it up under mastercam/tools on the ftp. if anyones interested.

I ended up stripping all arc movement out and making linears to be safe. Fanuc didnt bother to help to much and never really did give me any answers.(I sent them over pictures of the part, program line that it happened on, and even a plot verification of the arc points) I did get great support from Alex at Fastech who wrote in an algorithm on my existing post to look for small arc movement and convert only those sections to linear. I still had some trouble with the next part gouging, and just to be safe went ahead and converted it all to linear. I still dont think that I have the answer to my original question, but have found a temporary work around. If anyone has anything else to offer on this it would be appreciated. Thanks again!

If it was only a contour. Problems is its 15k. high speed path.

Might want to put this in the developers forum.

Looking at these parameters: 1801 0011 1826 xyz all set to 20 1827 xyz all set to 10 1820 xyz sll set to 2 3410 circle tolerance 1000 Im hoping to jog someones memory.

N218 X-7.4959 Y-13.079 I2.8299 J.3719 N220 X-7.496 Y-13.0718 I2.8542 J0. (This line) N222 G1 X-7.4956 Y-7.5375

Area clearance toolpath, isnt picking up a small ijk move. After it blew thru the part and eventually into a 3" wall of the part stopping the cutter and forcing me to get a spindle regrind this morning, the points have been plotted and it is posting the correct code. The move that it is missing is coming from having a 6 in radius with only .0072 of arc. J is still set at zero. My control is not picking this up and creates a giant arc around into the part. Can anyone help me with what parameter needs changed at the control? Ive pawed thru the book and contacted the seller of the machine (Daewoo/Doosan) but I am having little success in trying to find the setting. I keep looking for a type of corner rounding radius or something along those lines, but I am unsure of what needs changed. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Thank you gentlemen; getting ready to take the plunge. Ron, you know your advice is always appreciated by me. I believe that the post Im looking at is native from In House. Trust me the butt pucker factor would be a lot less if we could get a seat of Vericut. These machines are also capable of hobbing, Im not sure of how they are setup Greg, just starting to look at them now. I know the software is custom built, how much is customized I dont know yet. I have never ventured into Esprit, but will be taking a look at along with the mill/turn package from MasterCam. Thank you again

Currently we have an Okuma Mac-Turn 250-W. It has a custom built on board programming center built by Okuma for running a shaft based family of parts with hobbing included. Next week we have another one coming in. I have been given the objective of incorportating some of the other parts we run into this machine to eliminate multiple setups, rotarys, yada yada. 3/4 Axis milling background, VMC Fanuc, HMC Okuma, some lathe background for MCam Programming using mill level 3 with solids. Questions: 1. What additional MCam packages will I need in order to begin programming? (Lathe, etc.) 2. I have contacted my reseller for post-pricing; How confident are any of you with a high end post "out of the box" without using vericut? (I do not have it at this point and is not in the budget at the time being)We are a cash based company and this machine is taking a huge bite out it this quarter. I can already here you Ron arguing the validity of purchasing add on software for verification -vs- crashing a spindle and I am with you, but at this point it is "no". 3. Has any of the multi-axis training available thru the resellers been of much value to any of you in incorporating this step of programming from 3/4 axis based programming style. Thanks in advance.

Theres always the alternative of going to the floor and actually running the job you programmed. Crazy thought I know, but if you want to find out how your cutters perform go use them. You should know anyway if your responsible for setting the initial parameters for a new or old job. Yes we all optimize after the initial part, but you should be able to ballpark without to much thought either going by experience with material, or using the cutter catalogs to get close. Go find out for yourself at the machine is always the best way, if your not sure . I wouldnt leave it up to the operator to set the feeds and speeds, your cut depth affects all of this and this is something that has to be determined before it ever hits the floor. Learn your tools either by experience or having someone get you a basic chart of what there capable of cutting at.

If your box is on the floor, just drive a forklift into the next time you load your machine. I threatened to do it for a long time!

quote: Too soon to make waves Its never to soon. This is one of the reasons companies higher people to begin with, to get out of the rut of "this is the way weve always done it". As long as you can back up what you say with good reasons and positive intentions its never to soon to rock the boat. Oh yeah, and its fun too. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

quote: we’d expect to learn off of them and not the other way around :cheers here, here.......here, here....... Amen to that.

If you have an integrated card, I would start with the investment of a new box with expandable equiptment. Integrated systems tend to be in my opinion a PITA to split apart, not to mention find compatible parts for. As far as what to get do a search for the benchmark post. All the info has been covered there.

Yes. This is exactly what Im after. Called Haas direct and was told they dont give them out. Im doing an inventory on the place I just started at and I have 7 different models to deal with. Yippee. Thanks Kannon.

Anyone know where files can be obtained for the rotarys; 2d or 3d would be ok by me. I know this has been asked before, but a search returned no results. Thanks in advance.

David, you got it right. Opened up the linking moves and it went away. Thank you all for your time.