You're welcome. Discovered it by accident one time when my fingers where working faster than my brain. Which actually is most of the time.

Actually once you open the filter just double click what you want. Even if they are all selected it will just go to what you have selected. You want drills double click drills and that is all you will see.

Or just right click the color box. You can either select geometry before or after.

This one come in handy when I need to jam a job in when another is all set up. Especially with Haas carousel type tool changers. When you do a renumber of your tools you can use a negative number for your increment. So if I am using tools 1-7 for the job running and want to use maybe 20-15 for the slide in job I will renumber with starting tool as 20 and increment of -1. This will renumber my tools 20-15.

I was the exact same as what you describe. The only thing I did different was I went straight to the book. If you step through it from step one you will learn a ton. But JP is right on the training. I did some free tech classes and learned a few things thet were not self evident to some one starting out. Those things made life much easier. Nothing like getting tips from those who know. Good luck.

I dont think you can have Mastercam do it automatic but there is an easy way to do it. Right click the system color. It will then ask you to select what to change. Go to all and misellaneous. Chose depth. Either type in depth or use arrow in left corner to select geometry then click green check mark. This will highlight the geometry at that depth. Hit enter at the main screen and the color pallette will come up. Choose your color and hit enter.

G43 is modal. So even if your machine homes between rotations your length offset will not cancel until you cancel it or call another H offset.

In your post go find this: # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Tool Comment / Manual Entry Section # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ptoolcomment #Comment for tool tnote = t$, toffnote = tloffno$, tlngnote = tlngno$ if tool_info = 1 | tool_info = 3, sopen_prn, pstrtool, sdelimiter, *tnote, sdelimiter, *toffnote, sdelimiter, *tlngnote, sdelimiter, *tldia$, sclose_prn, e$ Which gives you this: ( T1 | 3/16 FLAT ENDMILL | H1 | D1 | WEAR COMP | TOOL DIA. - .1875 | XY STOCK TO LEAVE - .0025 | Z STOCK TO LEAVE - 0. ) ( T2 | 5/32 FLAT ENDMILL | H2 | D2 | WEAR COMP | TOOL DIA. - .15625 ) ( T3 | 1/4 CHAMFER MILL | H3 | D3 | WEAR COMP | TOOL DIA. - .25 ) Change it to something like this: # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Tool Comment / Manual Entry Section # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ptoolcomment #Comment for tool tnote = t$, toffnote = tloffno$, tlngnote = tlngno$ if tool_info = 1 | tool_info = 3, sopen_prn, t$, pstrtool,tldia$, sclose_prn, e$ Which will give you something like this: ( T1 3/16 FLAT ENDMILL / DIA .1875 / D1 / WEAR ) ( T2 5/32 FLAT ENDMILL / DIA .15625 / D2 / WEAR ) ( T3 1/4 CHAMFER MILL / DIA .25 / D3 / WEAR ) Also need to play with: # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- fmt "TOOL - " 4 tnote #Note format fmt "DIA. OFF. - " 4 toffnote #Note format fmt "LEN. - " 4 tlngnote #Note format fmt "TOOL DIA. - " 1 tldia$ #Note format fmt "XY STOCK TO LEAVE - " 2 xy_stock #Note format fmt "Z STOCK TO LEAVE - " 2 z_stock #Note format To get the comments to read as you like. From one who barely understands the posts to another. Hope this helps.

Recenttly I purchased a back radius tool from Harvey tool. I downloaded their tool simulation the file and it looked fine. But when I went to use it and define it as a custom tool I would get an error. I went to JP's ( John Paris ) web site where I had seen a video he had done for custom tools. After watching it and the reading John's comments underneath the one that stuck with me was that over 90 percent of the time the problem was in the improperly trimmed tool geometry. Well the geometry was properly trimmed but it got me thinking about geometry. I will often blank something off of the screen. I went and did an unblank and sure enough there was geometry in the background. I unblanked it and then deleted it and voila. It worked fine. So if you down load a Harvey Tool simulation file unblank and delete the hidden geometry and it will work fine. Drawn to scale so no need to go and create custom tool geometry.

I think I dislike you. I live with these on my head now. After 50 it all goes down hill lol.

Would not a step file also be as good?

Also in verify you can save as an STL after you run your tool path. Then load this as a file in verify and you will have a model from your previous tools. This way you can see where your next tools remove material where your previous tools did not.

Arc Filter/Tolerance setting. Set at 2:1 or 3:1. Will greatly reduce size of the program.

On the page for roughing under percentage of step over is "roughing angle". Enter whatever angle you want and it will rotate your path to that angle.

Mostly Aluminum but will throwing in some steel and stainless. +/-.005 on most but could get down to .0005. Maybe like a 63 finish. Both production and prototype. We are a job shop but do a lot of prototyping for some customers. Really just looking for ball park figures. The new owner is new to this industry so costs are really unknown. The other part of it is the learning curve for programming and operation of the machine.

Nothing huge. Largest part we have done now would be one of our turned parts at about a 5 inch diameter and about 7 inches long. Most parts can be held in your hand.

So the new owner here is looking at how much we send out and spend on wire edm. Was wondering what a decent wire machine costs and how difficult to learn how to run and program? Thanks

Set clearance to 4. and feedplane .1 inc. Uncheck retract. ( MILL POCKET AT .730 DEPTH ) T13 M6 G0 G54 G90 X-1.46 Y-1.5459 S5000 M3 G43 H13 Z1. M8 Z-.6 G2 Z-.6309 I-.0817 J.0459 F20. Z-.6617 I-.0817 J.0459 Z-.6926 I-.0817 J.0459 Z-.7235 I-.0817 J.0459 X-1.5665 Y-1.5904 Z-.73 I-.0817 J.0459 G1 X-1.7 Y-2.0778 G3 I0. J-.1972 G1 Y-1.5 . . . G3 I0. J-.1972 G0 Z1. X-.6125 Y-1.3451 Z-.6 G1 Z-.73 G41 D13 X-.5462 Y-1.2788 G3 X-.5188 Y-1.2125 I-.0663 J.0663 . . . G1 G40 X-.6125 Y-1.0799 G0 Z1. X-3.0674 Y-1.011 Z-.6 G1 Z-.73 G41 X-3.1337 Y-.9447 G3 X-3.2 Y-.9173 I-.0663 J-.0663 . . . G0 Z1. X-1.5674 Z-.6 G1 Z-.73 G41 X-1.6337 Y-.9447 . . . G1 G40 X-1.8326 Y-1.011 G0 Z1. X-1.6022 Y-2.5263 Z-.6 G1 Z-.73 G41 X-1.6337 Y-2.4947

We had at one place machine maintenance as part of ours. Each machine had a check off list for daily and weekly maintenance to show the equipment was being properly maintained. I have worked at a few places that went for ISO and was an internal auditor one time. So the one thing I would say is as the others have said keep it as loose as possible but also getting it to do what you want it to do. Never did help bring in any more work in my experience. Just ended up being a huge pita.

Subprogram will work as well as a G13 for saving on memory. There are a couple of different ways to get what you need. If the holes are in a pattern transform will work just fine. T1 M6 G0 G54 G90 X-.005 Y0. S1069 M3 G43 H1 Z.1 M8 M97 P0001 G0 G90 X1.495 M97 P0001 G0 G90 X2.995 M97 P0001 G0 G90 X4.495 M97 P0001 G0 G90 X5.995 M97 P0001 G0 G90 X7.495 M97 P0001 G0 G90 X8.995 M97 P0001 G0 G90 X10.495 M97 P0001 G0 G90 X11.995 M97 P0001 G0 G90 X13.495 M97 P0001 M9 M5 G28 G91 Z0. G0 G53 G90 Y0. M30 N0001 G91 G1 Z-.6 F6.4 G41 D1 X.0732 Y-.0732 G3 X.1768 Y.0732 I.0732 J.0732 I-.245 J0. X-.1768 Y.0732 I-.1036 J0. G1 G40 X-.0732 Y-.0732 Z.6 G0 X.005 G1 Z-.6 G41 X.0732 Y-.0732 G3 X.1768 Y.0732 I.0733 J.0732 I-.25 J0. X-.1768 Y.0732 I-.1035 J0. G1 G40 X-.0732 Y-.0732 Z.6 M99

If I am understanding this correctly you could you not just set a sine plate at the angle clamp it in or to the vice and indicate it? This would allow you to hand wheel in x or y to a zero reading on your indicator and end up with the angle you want.

Real world vs. play world. I like. Will probably use it in the future so long as you have not copyrighted it lol. Thanks guys. kinda what I figured. Will try the Rhino if we get this.

A customer who has a customer says he can only get .OBJ source file from them. Any one got a clue as to what this is and can you work from it? From what I gather it can be a: "Three-dimensional object containing 3D coordinates, texture maps, and other object information; a standard 3D image format that can be exported and opened by several 3D image editing programs." Thanks

It can be done with the correct program. Years ago I ran a Mazak and it had what it called an X-Y corner probe. It would bump one in X and twice in Y at a specified distance. Then it would shift the program to whatever angle the part was sitting. It was a great time saver when working with larger parts strapped to the table. Of course you had to be relatively close. Could not have the par skewed by a ton as the probe would hit as it move across the part to bump its second Y probe.