Ron, This for our Integrex, that first line is as I am sure you know that is the machine home. What I am seeing is the last thing that the tool path does, and again I see that it is sending the machine home as well, after the operation is complete. I believe that that is "hard coded" in the post. Post is from In-House (Brett). Also as you have stated I have never noticed it before. OK, I think I found my "Bug" I turned of display rapid moves . Thanks, for the help Ron, I will be sure and be mindful of that in the future.

X2 MR2 Getting a pretty scary looking move in back plot, rapid to X,Y,Z, 0.0 at end of op. But code posts fine code: N39 (T039039.0102 | 3.6MM DRILL | DIA. - 0. | DIR. - 0. | SUFFIX - 2.) (DRILL .156 HOLE) (TOOLPATH GROUP - 00-7894-011,511-01-1) G28 U0. G28 Y0. G28 W0. M302 M200 T039039.0102 B39 G53 P1 G97 S4002 M203 M248 M250 M212 G98 G0 B90. C90. M251 G128 X0. Y0. Z0. R1 Q0 G0 G17 X.598 Z.975 Y.2004 G83 Z.34 R0. F4. M210 X.417 Y.3814 R0. G80 G69.5 G28 U0. Y0. G28 W0. M205 M01 T031031.0102 G53 P1 G0 X1.5 Z.03 M30 Any thoughts??? Thanks

Thanks for the response guys. I will start with an eval. of Solidworks 2008 SP1. If I hit a wall I know that I can always turn to you all for some help. Thanks Chris

Neil, watcher. We currently have about 17 seats of UG, we are looking to get that number down as the maint. fees are a tad salty. We want to find something that more "Engineers" will have less trouble adapting to. Say MCAM and Solidworks for example. We will still keep/use a few seats as that is the preferred platform for our customers. We do not do much design on product but rather fixturing and CAM in my department, so UG is a bit of overkill, if you know what I mean. Thanks for all the responses so far, would be great to hear more from all.

We are currently looking to get rid of UG. I was wondering what all of you are using for your primary design software? Thanks in advance.

Just a thought, pondering a power house upgrade hear all the "MAC" rumors. Thanks John

Anybody running MCAM on a Mac. Pros's Cons's Does MCAM even support Mac? P.S. PC please don't get jealous.

Brett, Any of these changes affect the Integrex post?

When we power down, and re-home it never returns to the true home position. I will check in the M parameters.

Our X axis has lost its home position due to a brake failure at power down. It appears to be around 1" off. Any body know how to remedy this? Thanks in advance.

I have a Super Quick Turn 18M - Y Mark II Is the tail stock body programable, and if so what are the codes. I know the quill is but can only seem to move the body in manual mode. Thanks in advance.

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Please send it this way as well, I.S. has this "great" new filter installed. I am unable to download it. Thanks

Kevin, No we have no experience with honing. The bore is Ø.805 - Ø.806 thru a .625 part. We discussed purchasing a Sunnen, but the powers that be did not want to spend the money. I am still looking to possibly outsource this operation, we are going to give a burnishing tool a try first. Always best to have a back up plan "Just Incase"

Looking for some one that has experience honing Cobalt Chrome. I have a job that may need to be honed to an 8 micro and I am looking to outsource this operation. Thanks in advance for the help.

We use Titex drills, in 17-4 ph h900 for your hole size they are recomending 2746rpm 7.7ipm and 274 holes that are 1.5" deep This is a coolant thru drill and +1 on the run out.

In my experience the CMM is not the most reliable source of measurement for a radius or diameter; although one would think that .004" is well with in its capabilities. How deep is your bore? Is there any possibility that the vise is being over tightened and causing the pre-drilled hole to collapse and then spring open when the pressure is relieved?

I used it just this morning after crash number 3

Finally got debug to work changed code: pbld, n$, sgabsinc, pwcs, pfxout, pfyout, pfzout, pfcout, e$ to code: pbld, n$, sgabsinc, pwcs, pfxout, pfyout, pfcout, e$ pbld, n$, pfzout, e$ That bumped the Z move after the X,Y,A code: G0 Z6. ( PROF A0. T1 ) G59 X-9.3964 Y-2.155 A90. Z6. Z1. Thanks for the help

John, thanks that helped but only like a band-aid if you will... now i get code: G0 Z6. ( PROF A0. T1 ) G59 X-9.3964 Y-2.155 Z6. A90. Z1. tried looking for it in debug code: fastmode$ : no$ #CD_VAR Enable Quick Post Processing, (set to no for debug) and turned on "enable post file debug information" in the control definition manager. Yet I do not see any of the typical debug stuff, or any for that matter......???????? Am I missing something or just needing a good :smack:

Using the generic haas 4x mill post and need to change this the postioning movement from all 4-axis to "X,Y,A" then "Z" Posted code: code: G40 X2.9772 Y1.0638 G0 Z5. ( PROF A0. T1 ) G59 X-9.3964 Y-1.915 Z1. A90. Desired Code: code: G40 X2.9772 Y1.0638 G0 Z5. ( PROF A0. T1 ) G59 X-9.3964 Y-1.915 A90. Z1. Thanks in advance Looks like Monday part V

Kool sign me up, Thanks for the help.

When creating a 4-axis program with 2 different work postitions (G54 - G55) I am getting this error message. Is this something that I am doing wrong in the software? The code posts correctly, just a bit annoying to click ok the ok again. Thanks in advance.

That did the trick. Thanks again. Now we will just have to hope the machine performs as well as the simulation

I am trying to program on the sub side, I "think" that I have everything set-up correct in the file, but I am seemingly wrecking upon conpletion of the path. I am unsure if this a graphical error or something that I am doing wrong. I have placed the file on the FTP site in the X2 folder, it is called "Sub-side JAW.MCX". This is the first time attempting to do any sub programming. The post we are using is the one from In-House (thanks Brett). Thanks in advance for your help.