Never mind,,, got it.... Dynamic rest mill using previous drill op works fine.........

Trying to figure the best way to do this: Solid stock,, drill a 1.5 hole thru, then want to dynamic mill the hex shape. All the dynamics want to go outside to in,,, I can get 2D dynamic Area Mill to work with a single chain,, but then it cuts air from the center,,, If I add a second chain in the center to account for the thru hole, it makes a crazy path that takes too long. what am I missing??

This is absolutely the biggest thing that needs to change,,,,, whoever came up with the idea of associating the holder at the operation level instead of the tool library level obviously has never ran a cell....... We draw every single tool with the spindle and all holder geometry and select "custom file" in the tool definition to avoid all the little nasty gouges and crashes... I was hoping that with the holder libraries going to .DB style in X6 we would be able to associate the holder to the tool, doesn't look that way......

I have a crappy casting that varies all over the place so,,, I'm using our probe with Renishaw's easyset macros. The casting has a trianular feature that we want to re-cut to locate on a fixture Starting with O9843 to find the angle of the side wall to rotate program. Then using O9023 (3-point bore cycle) to hit the three walls of the triangle to find center of the feature and set a new work offset to prep the parts for further machining. O9843 works great every time, O9023 is not consistent at all,,, position varies all over... Not sure if a bore cycle is the best for hitting 3 flat walls..... G0 G90 G20 G17 G40 G49 G80 G94 N106 ( 6MM RENISHAW PROBE TOOL - 106 ) T106 M6 M22 M24 G131 G0 G54 G90 X0. Y0. A0. C0. S0 M5 M21 M23 G43 H106 Z8. T107 Z7.125 G65 P9832 G65 P9810 Z6.8158 F50. G65 P9843 X.25 D.240 #550=#144 G65 P9023 A11. D1.073 B[#550] S115. Z8. G130 G0 G53 Z0. M01 G0 G90 G17 G40 G80 G94 N107 ( 1/2 3-FL CEM X 1.250 LOC TOOL - 107 ) G17 G68 G90 X0 Y0 R[#550] ( T107 G54.1 P15 ) T107 M6 M22 M24 G131 G0 G54.1 P15 G90 X.122 Y-.0515 A0. C0. S12000 M3 M21 M23 G43 H107 Z9. M8 T71 Z7.1215 G1 Z7.0015 F200. Need some ideas,,,, how would you guys tackle this???

We have a EL Tool RAH that's coolant driven. Yes, you can run it on a MAM72-63V.... Just use M19 to lock the spindle. Read thru this: EL Tool instructions it explains using M19....

Anybody seen this?? Trying to find more info.... Drilling square holes

Spend 9000.00 on a killer PC and still send programs thru serial...... Sorry,,, couldn't resist....

We are looking at going fullblown on the capto system... Throw out the opinions good and bad... We do a lot of prototyping,, quick changeover is crucial.. We also run one or two high volume jobs in between.. (4000+ run) Something like this???

Exactly what I was thinking..... Thanks for the help James,, as always,, much appreciated!!!

Need some Macro help Boyz....... We are loading up a tombstone with multiple parts on multiple faces in our Makino Cell. Each part has an engraved part number but also needs a sequential serial number. Each face of the tombstone will have multiple parts. Need to serialize each part on one face then rotate and continue serializing on the next face. Also need to keep track of sequential numbers each time the pallet goes in... (we are talking thousands of parts) Never enough time in the day,, So,,, anyone willing to help out writing such a beast?? Or,, does anybody already do this?? We are willing to pay a reasonable fee...... Lay it on me......

The easiest way is to use an automatic back counterbore tool.... AUTOMATIC BACK SPOT FACING TOOL, REAR COUNTER BORE TOOL There are a few different brands out there.... If you have a lot of holes to do,, it's worth it...

I'm running the FX3800 with the latest driver: 267.17-Quadro-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql.exe Works great with no problems... Intel DX58SO MOBO Intel® Core i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz 12GB RAM Windows 7 64bit NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 Dual HPw2207h monitors

Yes,, I love plunge milling... It's amazing how fast you can remove material.... Long Plunge Milling Seco Plunge Mills Rock!!! I agree with Zoober,,, Komet or Ingersol insert drills work awesome for smaller diameters.

Just had an awesome demo today at Mcam Northwest.... Thanks goes out to Tim Rowley at Mcam NW for the nice facility. Chris Rizzo for the great help and training materials. Steve Linsk from Verisurf and the Crazy Millman himself,, Ron Branch. My mind is still going crazy over all the possibilites that this hardware and software combo brings to the table.... Everything from first article inspection all the way through to machine calibration (think ball-bar testing in reverse) The ease of use and the power of the software is amazing. The reverse engineering package in Verisurf really got my attention as well. I could go on and on,,, instead, I'll tell you to book a demo with Ron and the boyz at Verisurf and you'll be impressed. And,,,, it all runs inside Mastercam.... The integration works very well. I'll be picking your brain in the near future Ron.....

quote: The other possibility would be to talk with the folks at InHouse and see about adding the aggregate functionality to a custom MpMaster post How cool would that be....

It's MAPPS III Should have power today....

Shoehorn it is for now...... We will be expanding into the building next door in the next few months.... Looks like we are getting rid of your favorite machine,,,, DMG is going out to become a boat anchor soon.... ;o)

2D Highspeed - Coremill is what you want... There is a bug though,,, watch out if you use depth cuts!!! If it wants to rapid thru your part on subsequent depth cuts, close down Mastercam and then re-launch Mastercam,, problem will go away.... ;o( HTH

Yes,, we plan on trying to program with Mastercam. It does have the conversational control, we are signed up with the on-line courses at Mori. Haven't had a chance to look at the course yet, but it's supposed to simulate the machine on-line. Tim at Mcam NorthWest says he has a post already dialed in for this exact machine. Get to see that next week.....

Just came in the door......... Mori Seiki NL2500SY/700 sub-spindle -w- Y axis The first turning center for Machine Sciences. (we can actually do round stuff now!!) ;o)

quote: Are there any setting elsewhere than need to be set?? My options button is greyed out. I kind of rememebr installing the Verisurf add-on breaking Mastercam mesh.. but thought this had been fixed I just installed Verisurf for X4 and it "greyed out" the options button for file merge??? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling a couple of times.... WTF????? How do you fix it?????

quote: Looks like you could have been better off wiring out a majority of the part. Sweet job though. Did you get much chatter with it hanging out that far? Wire EDM would take too long..... (if we even had one...) At those speeds and feeds we had no chatter at all.. was really sounding sweet!!! quote: Great example of where directing the cutting forces axially along the spindle really helps. What brand of heat shrink? Is that a Bilz or Haimer? Actually, it's a Briney V40SF-125-600 that we had to skim off about .020 from the OD. (was the same dia. as the cutter)

Did somebody say Plunge Milling???? Matsuura MAM72-63V PC2 Vertical 5-axis Machining Center Seco 2 inch Plunge Rougher in Cat40 extended shrink-fit holder...... 12.150 Gage length 5000 RPM - 50 IPM - .125 stepover - Sweet!!! Part was turned inside before hand, 2 inch Mitsubishi Facemill pocketed both sides partway in,, then Dive!! Dive!! Dive!!! Absolutely Scary to watch it tool change!!! Max tool length in the machine is 350mm!! (No,,, I can't tell you what the part is....so don't ask)

quote: so, its like buying a puzzle right? It all come's in one box but up to you to put it together. No,,, you buy a puzzle that some of the pieces are missing, but you don't find out until the puzzle is almost finished. But wait,, you will get the missing pieces a couple of years down the road.... I've said it all along since MATSS,,, (remember that??) This should be priority #1 with CNC!!! Oh,,, but we can buy PartMaker in the meantime....