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You may be running into a shared video memory issue. With 6G, the system may be reluctant to issue any to the video card. With more, it will The amount of reserved shared memory is generally set at boot up, based on paging sizes and other factors competing for reserving memory. While it is reserved, it won't generally show as used, but as kernel allocated. These amounts are generally not easy to find unless to use something like process explorer, or similar tool. In the screenshot below, it shows that even tho I have a 3gig video card, it is also borrowing almost 3.5 gig of system memory, even though neither is showing as being used much. What are they using to see how much memory is being used? task manager? Is a new IT department an option?

Sure. Why not? You could also use crystal, and a host of other stuff.

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yep.

So if our custom drill cycle posts already support Top/Top and Front/Top and all of the Renishaw probe cycles since before probing was an option, do we still need to upgrade to 2018 to show off?

We do this daily on long Swiss parts. It's called superpositioning. M140/141 on our 3 channel Siemens. PartMaker handles it easily.

Ive made a lot of those bottles.... ....Until I realized my tool post was not tight. I think a loose retention knob can get some good results too! Just kidding. The only way to do the convert to rapid thing is the way Josh is showing. I would be more apt to finish the model, apply texture, and save as an STL in Rino. Then, machine as you would any other surface.

Except those are commonly blocked by company IT departments as remote storage.. I can't see any pictures from here at work that are stored there.

Love the tape! Have you given it a smack? That usually worked on the old acramatic 850's.

Any word on 3 channel custom wait codes?

Easy peasy. I've done hundreds of ports in valve bodies that require good finishes. Prep the port by surface contouring the port. That will allow you to leave .003-.005 on all surfaces, including the angles equally. Key is equal amount on ALL surfaces, not just roughing the bore. Then finish as Ron says, with low surface footage, and .0005-.001 chip load 1/2 second dwell at bottom, unless you get chatter, then in and out, or stop and reverse the spindle and get out. That will burnish a seal surface if needed. Edit: No pilot needed when equal material is left. there is not enough tool pressure to make the tool bounce.

I'm with Matt. If it were me, I would go with a 3/8 with .75 LOC. the smaller tool will put less pressure on your spindle, lowering chatter, with the same percentage radial depth of cut. 2:1 is length to dia. is pretty reasonable. Or, a 1/2 with 1" LOC. I'm not a fan of side locks either. Especially with the flat grinding skills I see. Also, with a weak machine like a HAAS, the balance can be an issue, even at lower speeds, causing you to cut with fewer flutes. A quality holder in a Haas 40 taper is still a mediocre holder. Which.... leads me to make sure your tool is running dead true. you want each flute cutting the exact radial depth. Otherwise, instead of a .015 ae, you will have some flutes at .018 and some at .012 or so...

Also, Trend Micro is shutting down the 2017 process during migration of the .PSB files during post migration. Well at least in beta 4. CNC knows about it. Did a web meeting with them to show it happening. No error, just *poof* Mastercam no longer running. found it in my Trend micro logs. Trend sees encrypted files as ransomware.

We have Cimco Full thru Jay.

I don't like code expert. I have been playing with Cimco, and yes it does 3 channels. With my normal Cimco colors. Thanks. But I can only get it to work with the built in Siemens waitm. I can't get the user defined correct. I need to add about 7 more wait codes. The documentation is sparse when it comes to "advanced". Is it regex? or?? Jay! Help Cecil, Help!

I've got ExamDiff working perfectly for 2 channel perfect alignment of as many wait states I want, color coded and with full, unlimited compare. Next update should handle 3 channels. So I will prolly stick with it so we can standardize. I was looking to make sure I haven't overlooked something right in front of my eyes.

Only two as far as I can tell. Please tell me I'm wrong. I like Cimco. That's all I use for mill programs. But I still use ExamDiff for compare, because Cimco is limited in the number of differences. But I don't mind subbing out for compare with no wait states.

I got a regex that works... Kind of... (waitm)|(M8[2-3])|(M5[0-7])|(M13[1-3])|(M14[1-3]) If I click on the Syncs Next icon, it will move from sync to sync and highlights them as I go (only in the active channel tho). But the red hover alignment is completely gone now. That doesn't help at all. When editing a multichannel, you want to see the channels line up by the waits (syncs). Just being able to click thru them in a single channel is worthless.

Doug, can you point me to some documentation for regular expressions that code editor accepts? I have snippets that I use in exam diff, that work perfectly. But code Expert rejects them: Can you ask them to line up the wait states instead of the goofy markers?

I've been unable to set it up for 3 channels with about 8 different wait combinations. Siemens doesn't just use M200's as wait codes. The follow and pinch and spindle synced all wait for each other also. But maybe I haven't tried hard enough to find reasonable documentation on it. Cause I want full compare also. With Regex based ignores. The next version of exam diff will do what I want though.Edit: I just remembered the reason I don't use code expert... The way it aligns wait codes is lame. The little red arrow pointing from one to another instead of aligning them. I tried it a while back on a 2 channel easy peasy, and it was not good.

Was using search to look into multi channel editors and came across this blast from the past! ROR!

Db into the machine serial port, Ethernet into the PC

Serial to ethernet null modem adapters. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1DH2PX8151&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-Adapters+and+gender+changers-_-9SIA1DH2PX8151&gclid=CL-ytoTI-swCFRSPfgod2KQO8A&gclsrc=aw.ds Newegg, Tripp Lite, many manufacturers.