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Matthew Hajicek - Singularity

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  1. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Unless something happened I haven't heard about, DirectX 10 is not available for XP, only Vista. Last I've heard it's about the only thing Vista has going for it.
  2. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    A 45° chamfer mill isn't going to know what to do on a 45° slope. Try using a ball mill in the same toolpath.
  3. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    You may need to break them up first.
  4. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    G-force what? 8600? 6600? MX200?
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    I figure you've probably got this covered, but since nobody mentioned it what's your shading chord height set to?
  7. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    You can still use comp on a ramp contour, just use a small perpendicular lead in and out.
  8. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    I've got a Quadro FX 540 that's almost three years old now. I get by, but I'm thinking it's about time to upgrade. I'd look at Nvidia's web site to see where the 360m lies in their hierarchy.
  9. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Also don't forget the collateral pro's and cons. If you're making the part in-house, you can make revision changes almost instantly unless they're too drastic. Sometimes a picky customer will want to come and look at your manufacturing process, which they won't want to do if you're jobbing it out overseas. If you job it out to China, your customer may decide to cut out the middle man and go to China directly, leaving your company out of the loop. Put a value on that...
  10. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    I was going off of Don's "This fixture is needed to make production possible" and wondering why you need to do an ROI study if you can't even make the part without the fixture. Sure a simpler fixture than the one proposed may do, but it's still a fixture, and in that case it's a comparative study between fixtures. Our sales guys usually consult us on anything they're not sure on before quoting, including what fixturing would be necessary if the part or features are unusual.
  11. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    If you can't make the part without the fixture, then what's the cost of making the part without the fixture?
  12. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Hit "Create" "Create Letters". You can make any font you have loaded on your computer, set its size and orientation, and put it on an arc if you want.
  13. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Does it work on other machines?
  14. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Just did it today by saving as a STEP file from SW and loading it in Mcam. Worked perfectly.
  15. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Save the toolpath as geometry from backplot, manually edit it, then chain it as a 3D contour.
  16. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Hey, that's another thread.
  17. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Logitech Trackman Wheel. Mice suck.
  18. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    The most important question is what your budget is. Knowing that we could then figure out the best computer for the money.
  19. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Carbide cutters with edge prep for aluminum seem to work pretty well on wood. The "wiggle" is what you want, that's the ramp entry. Try turning down the x-y clearance to get it to ramp in the other two pockets. Personally I like the helical entry better than the ramp, 'cause you're not rubbing the sides then. I set min rad. to 25% and max rad. to 50%, so there's no boss left in the middle. If you just want to change the feedrate on that first move, you need to right-click on the operation and select the last option in the menu that pops up: "Toolpath Editor".
  20. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Well, if your router has 18" for Z travel you could try my approach, otherwise you'll probably have to do yours. I would probably work okay I think, you'll just have to make a toolholder setup for holding various lathe tools at different Y-axis positions on the router head. If your lathe has an indexing plate like my grandfathers old 9" Atlas then you could rout some flutes down your part or drill mounting holes or whatever after turning it. Come to think of it, that would be a pretty sweet setup!
  21. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    I've done small parts by putting the stock in the spindle of a mill and setting up lathe tools on the table. That worked pretty well, and you can have a lot of tools all ready to go. The chips fall out the end when you're boring and drilling, and you can have a soft-catch bin under your parting tool. How big a part are you looking to make?
  22. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    My understanding is that the first release of Mastercam for Solidworks will only have 3D toolpaths. They're leaving the 2D toolpaths for later, which means that as a job-shop programmer I won't be able to use it for a while.
  23. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    quote: Right on. Just drew a file today ran the job and they are all scrap because i drew it wrong. All you have to do is punch in a bad number and your done. I have the opposite problem. Features in the model from the customer may be at minimum or maximum material condition instead of at the center of the tolerance zone, or they may be a revision or two behind due to hand-modified print dimensions.
  24. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    That thing about the number of visible cores jumping around seems awfully suspicious to me. Is there a mobo driver that you should be using that you may not be? I'm thinking that threads are showing up as cores or something. Can you turn off hyperthreading as a test?
  25. Matthew Hajicek - Singularity
    Friends don't let friends use Vista.

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