That's nifty. Someone had their thinking cap on that day.

The 3 axis engine is kinda equivalent to the old "quick" verify mode. It simplifies the calculation by not worrying about the sides/undercuts. I turn if off by default, as the quality isn't really high enough for me to do anything with, even on the rare occasion I do something that's only 3 axis.

I remember that happening a few times during the X series when I was workin' the ol support hotline for Centroid. There was also the Intel series 22.xx of drivers that had problems with OpenGL. Could be that as well. Without knowing the video card, we'll never know

Also, the .config file Either way, I'm still betting on an nvidia driver issue.

Awesome! You're gonna love it That's a great update I know that Titans of CNC has a really good sale on kennametal insert shell mills with inserts right now, you may want to look at grabbing some of those.

Well, what's your computer specifications?

To be fair, I haven't spent much time trying, but I don't believe you can cause the engraving toolpath to enter from the sides.. Can you share a file with what you're trying to accomplish?

There was an series of Nvidia drivers that had a bad OpenGL implementation for some graphics cards a few years ago... Maybe windows helpfully installed one for you? What version driver and what video card are you using?

Ah, crap, you're right. Thanks! I read too fast and didn't realize he was talking about a lathe.. I just saw the Z was .05" above the part

Is this just an incremental vs absolute (G90 vs. G91) thing?

Any that come through the door

Oooh, good call. That's probably true! I guess I've always just made sure I was ordering BT40/30 vs. CAT40/30 pull studs, so I never quite paid attention to the thread pitch.

The only other differences I know of is a BT needs a longer pull stud than a CAT (it's something like 4mm shorter?), also, technically a CAT can have offset dogs (so that you can only input a tool one way, although I don't think anyone has been doing that for the last 20 years, though... But if so, you'll need another dog. Yeah, the tools themselves don't have to be stored in the machine. I just mean for programming & production purposes, that tool # is always in X assembly. Doesn't matter if it's being used in the Haas, a converted bridgeport, or the MAM. Eventually, when you get the point that you have a dedicated tool crib/assembly guy, you'll be able to order up a job worth of tools that are already mostly on the shelf.

Now's a good time to really plan out your common holders and order multiples so every machine in the shop gets to benefit from it. I.e., Tool #123 is always a ø.75 4FL .015R Endmill with .75 LOC and 1.25" stickout. Make that standard in the shop. Try to make it so every job can be programmed 75% from the standard library.

Excellent! Sounds like you'll be well prepared for success with this package! Glad to hear it's all specc'd out with all the goodies. I was just helping an Okuma customer that bought their machine a few years ago and "they only do 3+2." Until they didn't... Then we got to go through all the gyrations and learning curve teaching their guy how to do things old school without TCPC and such

I'll make the argument that you should check out shrink fit right now. It's the right time now that you're stepping up to a real machine. It solves so many problems that come from using collets, single points/weldons, etc such as runout, vibration, damping, rigidity, and on and on. Another good choice is the chuck system, like a RegoFix. I think Iscar calls theirs the CamFix? Any of these modern solutions are so much more rigid that an ER Collet system, you're really doing yourself a disservice by not having one. I don't know how they are for availability down in TX, but up here a lot of people use MST tool holders (https://www.mst-corp.co.jp/en/). I know they're decently cheaper than Haimer (as GCode said, that's not exactly hard to do...), but they're also really modular. You can mix and match holders, extensions, etc. They are all shrink, though, so you'll be in for the cost of a shrink setup. Speaking of, I know a lot of people I know have gotten good value from the Haas shrink setup, btw.. I think it's $7k all in or something? Agreed with Gcode that Big Daishowa (previously Big Kaiser) is always a correct choice. Also, don't forget that when you buy a new machine, the big tooling companies (Sandvik, Kennametal, Iscar, etc.) will throw you a massive discount based on a % of the cost of the machine. All of them offer great tool holders, at least for the "normal" stuff, so take advantage of that. Other considerations as you evaluate these, make sure you're getting the holders setup for thru-tool coolant, so you don't have to hunt around for that later. ---------- I love MAMs. They're great! One thing to make sure of right now is that you're getting it setup to do simultaneous multiaxis work (DWO/TCP/TCPC/WSEC, etc.). As soon as you realize how useful it really is you'll find yourself using it a lot more and you don't want to hamstring yourself right out of the gate by not getting those options unlocked. If you ever need a hand programming that sort of thing, don't hesitate to reach out!

The real joy of A36 is that it's the sausage of metal... The specs on it are so wide that the next batch you get might be totally different and cut a good chip like nothing.

The only reason you'd need port expert is it makes the closed impellers a lot easier. If you're always going to be making them as a two piece, brazed assembly, then you probably won't ever use it. There's all sorts of other places where it's REALLY useful, of course, but not in this arena. The roughing works pretty well, and is, of course, stock aware. As you know, Mastercam doesn't have a dedicated button cutter type, so you'll need to do define it as a bull nose. One downside for Inconel and such is that it doesn't support the feedmill profile, although it does look like it supports LENS type circle segment, so you can probably approximate it pretty close.

Yep! I'd be happy to chat your ear off, Tom. Shoot me an email @ [email protected], we can get on the horn and chat about it.

Good call. I just did the calcs (well, by that I mean I plugged it into Eldar's program, cause ain't nobody got time to calculate things manually!)... Using all the recommended settings (stepover/DOC/etc. with a .5 endmill) for 6Al. 4FL is 14.7% Stepover (.0737"), .00286FPT/282SFM (24.7IPM/2156RPM) = 310.5lbs of cutting force on the tool. 1.6 cubic inches per minute removed. 8FL is 8.4% Stepover (.0422"), .00365FPT/360SFM (80.35IPM/2750RPM) = 453.3lbs of cutting force on the tool. 3.0 cubic inches per minute removed. Just for an additional calculation, when I changed the 8FL down to the 4FL material removal rate (74% of recommended feeds and speeds), the cutting force was still higher @ 335.5 lbs of force... But the tool life % was at 254% Based on the above, I wonder if the harmonics/consistent loading was better in Inconel than than the actual change in force on your haas?

If that machine worked in 2023, I'd be happy to take a look at it and try to update it over here.. Open up a file in 2023 with that machine and make a zip2go for me. Or you can bounce it over to your reseller and have them update it for ya.

Ah, okay, now I can see in that screenshot that you're in the Open dialog.. I was trying to figure out why you had two windows Explorer windows showing you different things... Okay, that makes sense. Further evidence that it is not updated correctly.

Right, can you please post the actual path of the two folders? e.g., C:\Users\Public\Documents\Shared Mastercam 2024\CNC_MACHINES\

Aren't these the same place? Click up on the the bar with the folder name, and make sure it looks like this:

Are you selecting all previous versions allowed when migrating?