I havent used it but seems all of Iscars HEM tools are in a pre installed tool library in X5 with all your variables already saved to the library. The tools are the tool part numbers used by Iscars catalougue. Change your tool library to Iscar HEM and you will see what I mean

Hanita can't touch the endmils these guys make http://www.truebroach.com/ Had both salesman in the shop at the exact same time and they outperformed hanita by quite a bit. Even the rep who was selling the hanita was like damn

You could also add A secondary Z point using a seperate co-ordinate system and add it to your code. "G90 G54.1 G0 Z0. P#" and add that before all the first and last moves

I use it every day also for circle milling slotting any milling that goes even profiling the outside of a piece. It allows me to just chain the bottom edge which gives me my depth and adds the distance I specify to get the rad of my cutter pass the depth I need a straightwall on. I am actually interested to see how it would work with tapered walls just 2 scarred to try it. But would save a lot of work especially when chaining tapered mills that I wan to break through past my model. instead of extending lines and rechaining the bottom of the model below the model.

I will give it a try thank you for the help.

Is it possible to tweak the settings on the video card itself? I inherited a computer that the previous programmer had set up to run gibbs, which I had switched over to X5 and even with its beefed up graphic card I have tonnes of problems, for example whenever I reverse a chain the arrrow disappears and selecting things is hit or miss at best. It seems more of a refresh rate on the video card itself because if I pan I can usually get the arrow to reappear. Should I be going in and tinkering with the settings or am I stuck programming blind?

+1 there has to be a transition from .125 to .25, Draw curves on both sides of your .125 fillets then create .25 2d fillets in the joining corners. After doing that use the 3 surface fillet blend and you can see that is the only correct way to give you what you want.

When we have multiple programs all in one we add N#'s equal to the part number and just jump around as we need to for which ever part/parts are on the machine. Probably not as efficient as Tony's method but extremely easy to explain to a operator.

Chris, top right corner of this page you will see your user name and image used in posting it should have a number in the top corner of your picture. This tells you when you have a message. Click on that and it will take you to your messages. Reply to them just like you would to a thread. HTH

John is this also true for adding a font to drafting entities? I use the basic Ariel that is preinstalled everything else seems to revert to block letters, but would like something that didnt look like it was written by a 3 year old on my set up sheets. Maybe I am missing something

Got the quote back from those guys and it looks like a really cool system but is very limited. With the hardware they give you it needs to be plumbed into your existing coolant manifold with a shut off valve to decide which source you want your coolant to come from. I was hoping for something that was a add on which I could assign a M code to make this unit an auxillary source. And what they are charging is nearly double the price they say there "average unit cost" is on the website that shows this savings and potential profit graph. I will keep looking thanks for the help.

No I was going into my control def inside of my machine def. I didnt know I had to create different default files for each and every machine I was hoping they laid inside the actual machine def. Brings up the question though when editing these defaults why does the warning come up that my control def has been changed and ask me to save it if the only thing I changed is the actual operation default file?

That looks like a really cool product. With the "minimum quantity coolant" model is there a big drain on the compressor?

I followed the steps above to get my operation defaults to stick no problems but is it possible to save different defaults to different machines?. When I go into a specific machine set all the operation defaults it changes the defaults for every machine and not just the one I am trying to edit. To make this a bit clearer. I open the control definition from the machine definition in machine #1 I set my clearance plane at 2.0 save open a new design file open machine definition, control definition and change default clearance to 4.0 and save. Now when I reopen machine #1 its default is now 4.0 and not the 2.0 I originally saved. Is there something I am doing wrong here?

Good morning, I am wondering if anyone has bought or tried to add on a 3rd party pump that allows multiple noozles or a articulating singular noozle that can be programmed into a control like the Haas's have to adjust for different tool lengths and assign different offsets to corrulate with each Tool. I am trying to add this to Fanuc 18i controller. Any thoughts on if this is even possible and what would be involved $$$$$ and time wise to get this up an going?

Yes Gcode that was my problem I never even noticed the little radio button once again you guys come thru. Thank you for your help.

Colin you have mail. Disregard the first email though pretty hard to help when I forget to attach the zip2go. Second one hsa everything you need

So I wrote a 2D pocket program with 2.0 Clearance plane top of stock absolute +0.01 with incremental 0.2 retract and posted and this is what I get as code G00 G17 G90 G54 X0. Y0. S2000 M03 G43 H5 Z0. M08 Z2. X.1105 Y-.1666 Z.21 G94 G01 Z-.0195 F8. X.1977 Y-.136 F30. Is this a known bug? Everything matches my setting perfectly except for the G43 H5 Z0. and I know my setting are correct.

I should also add if you want to use windows explorer to find the NC program when you find it right mouse click on it and then hit "Open with" this will allow you to choose the type of program yo want to use to open the NC file right now it sounds your using notepad. Find MC Editor (although me personally cimco is way better) and then after you choose it there is a radio button saying "always use this program to open tthis type of file. Put the check mark in there and everrytime you access a file it will open in whichever editor you choose

Go into Windows Explorer locate the Editors in your Mcam folder and create a shortcut to your desktop, quick link or wherever else you visit regularly and you can use that to launch the editor just like you would launch Mcam or any other program on your computer

I have a question. Is there anyway that when you capture a screen image it saves at a specific size? I use a Excel template and everytime I paste the screenshot into excel I always have to resize it.

Go into the Tool settings tab in the operations manager and make sure "Search Tool library when entering tool number" is unchecked

If you are restarting at the beginning of the tool after your G43 line everything you need should be there. Manual interrupt shouldn't be a worry you are restarting after a reset. But you don;t use handle mode to do this. You use edit. Greg the best way is like Psychomill says a debate. Is this a one off part? or is this a program that will be ran many times? Do you archive all proven programs or just repost them? One off edit the code because who cares. If this is a program you want to archive or rerun, then just add a block number where you need the restart follow the same approach Psychomill explained but do it in edit not handle. If we are talking about speed and limiting mistakes it is a lot easier to add a block number to a program and then search for the block number then it is to write down an entire block on a piece of paper then do a search using the arrow down key. Keep it simple add a block number and follow what I put above. Why mess with a good program. It will take you longer to cut and paste original code, then resave and try to explain this to the operator then it will for the search to take place. Cutting a program up may seem faster but guess what you just cut up your program making it useless for future parts.

Yes the taper mill worked like a charm thank you Gcode and especially Keith for the tip. Guess I have some "chamfer mills" I need to convert over. Thanks again

Gcode this may be a dumb question but what plane should I draw my tool in? Should the cutting edge be facing in Z- direction as it would in the mill?