I agree TheePres, Windows Commander is powerful and very easy to use. It's the only program I use for FTP and such.

You know what they say, a picture is worth a thousand words!!!

Yes it is ALWAYS that clean!

I would hate to work in a rathole like some shops I've seen.

We have an exellent maintenence dept. and we also have a major cleanup once a month. (clean machines, change coolant, etc.)

Chris, just E-mail your resume on over!

Come on up heeler, we'll definitely have to shoot the breeze sometime. We've built some pretty wild parts for you guys over the years.

[ 09-03-2002, 06:37 PM: Message edited by: Kevin Clark, Central Valley Machine ]

Grant,

We modified the stock Fanuc post to spit out H901,

H902, etc. instead of G54 and just added a default value of W-10. for the spindle. We haven't really had a situation yet that we have to move the W around much during machining so haven't really looked into it.

Really the only complaint I have with this machine is there is no full enclosure (it would be the size of a small house!!) so coolant thru drills and boring heads are a REAL MESS. Also the safety factor being so close to the spindle with chips flying around (We've actually had chips bounce off the ceiling with a 1.25 Valenite coolant thru insert drill!!) But rigid tapping is totally Awsome to watch! (1x8 spiral tap to within .1 of a flat bottom hole at 100 RPM, Wow!)

[ 09-02-2002, 08:51 PM: Message edited by: Kevin Clark, Central Valley Machine ]

Gary,

You need to modify your post under the canned text section to spit out M92.

Turn on canned text in the first parameter page of your toolpath.

Ask your dealer to give you a hand with your post.

Good luck

Grant,

Look at this picture of our Toshiba horizontal boring mill.

http://www.cvm-inc.com/cvm_004e_facilities...es_toshiba.html

The whole column moves in and out for Z axis and the spindle will extend out up to 28 inches from the main head for the W axis.

Basically we program the machine normally as a horizontal and set the W manually. It automatically compensates for the difference between Z and W.

The table moves back and forth for X axis, the spindle head up and down for the Y axis, and the table rotates about the B axis.

Is this the type of machine your looking at??

Toshiba's are Awesome machines, very stable.

(this machine weighs 110,000 pounds!)

[ 09-02-2002, 12:31 AM: Message edited by: Kevin Clark, Central Valley Machine ]

N FRANCO,

Look at the file I threw up on the FTP under MC9 directory called Chamfer_cuts.mc9

This is a simple down and dirty way of making large chamfers, you could also do it with the taper option under depth cuts.

Wax On-- Wax off-- Wax on-- Wax off-------------

heeler,

Sounds like you need to change the file association in file types under folder options in windows explorer.

What version of windows?

Mike,

Just a different way of looking at things,

Inches per Rev - or - Revs per Inch!

Simple calculations to convert one or the other.

Lets take a poll:

Most mill guys use inches per minute, Right?

And I would say lathe guys are more inclined to use inches per rev.

Now how about the guys that do both???

Just curious........

I've uploaded a file to the FTP under mc9 called "kev chain sorting.mc9"

gstephens, I guess I need some further explanation on chain sorting if you can look at this file.

I don't want to have to manually chain something like this!!

Thanks for for the info gstephens.

I don't deal with metric much so I didn't realize

that they are defined differently.

I guess my bum IS falling off!!

This is how I set up my Matsuura with rigid tapping:

 pmisc2          #Yasnac Rigid Tap

And this is how I cancel it:

 pcancelrig       #Cancel Yasnac rigid tapping cycle

[ 08-28-2002, 10:42 AM: Message edited by: Kevin Clark, Central Valley Machine ]

Does anybody know the rhyme or reason on chain sorting?

If you window a series of chains and pick a search point, it seems to chain about a random order.

We need to have an option like drill point sorting in chaining.

Am I making sense???

I think the original post was about tapping.

Peter,

I was referring to tapping not threadmilling.

Jack,

Putting that formula into ptap in your post calculates the proper feed for inches per rev because like I said Mcam always figures inches per minute when you define a tap.

Mcam always figures mm/min, to change this you need to add something like this in your post:

"feed = (1 / n_tap_thds)" (change to metric obviously)

under the ptap function.

Have your dealer come and help you out.

[ 08-27-2002, 03:46 PM: Message edited by: Kevin Clark, Central Valley Machine ]

Are we talking Mill or Lathe?

Mcam simply polls the keyboard all of the time,

unless a dialog box is open. (kind of strange I do admit) Open task manager and watch when you open operations manager in MCam and watch the activity drop to nothing from 100% usage.

It's not really taxing the processor to death!

Sounds like video driver issues with the slow Verify (SHOCKER!!)

[ 08-26-2002, 11:07 PM: Message edited by: Kevin Clark, Central Valley Machine ]

Why not just contour with say a .75 endmill and set it to ramp instead of 2D say .03 per revolution?

Just wondering.

Go to c-hooks, updatepst9.dll

That should fix you up!

Andrew, Jack, and Dave,

I must have something really funky going on in my computer at work. It would not paste the actual code into Word, notepad, or wordpad!

Works just fine on my 3 computers at home!

I get this:

Could you E-mail it to me?

Dave, How do I get your code to copy and paste?

When I try to paste it in notepad or whatever I get everything down to here:

The rest doesn't show up.

I'm sure it's something simple I'm missing.

We really need a way to do this in Mastercam,

Give it a range of numbers and have it spit out subs or whatever.

Dave, I will try your macro and let you know on the depth variable.

I totally agree Andrew,

Emuge RULZ!!!

I rigid tap at 2000 rpm in aluminum on a Matsuura and it's totally awsome!

Best taps I've seen for stainless of any kind.