Glad to hear you like it. It´s one of the few 100% Brazilian products in the machining world that make us very proud. I don´t know if yours was made here, but I can tell they built an world class facility to manufacture those heads. It´s indeed state of the art technology in bore machining.

Ohhh.. Sorry for asking didn't notice you added the machine name to the title... TCP can handle it for you... need to make sure you have a good post and the machine parameters are correctly set to work with this post.

TCP will handle it for you... What machine and control?

Out of curiosity: In Japan, brands ending up with "Seiki" are usually high accuracy equipment. The machine builder has to fill a little extra paperwork to get the export license, since this equipment is usually able to reach the accuracy level required to manufacture atomic weapons and military systems. When shipped to certain countries, even ones that are not embargoed, some machines are escorted by employees of U.S. government in order to make sure they will be used and deployed within the purpose and location the buyer alleged they would.

Most of machines built in the last 20 years or more are parameterized to use bell curve acc/de-acc. No verification software to date can deal with it. They can only handle simple acc/de-acc. I'm talking about higher end verification. Backplotters don't even know what acc is. The only solution close in regards time and 100% in regards behavior is Vericut with the Sinumerik VNCK module. It only works for Sinumeriks though and it is very expensive, not required for things that are not extremely unique and complex. VNCK fetches data from ARC files, where all machine and servo parameters are stored. It deals with bell curve acc/de-acc, jerk, compressors, etc... When you have VNCK with Vericut, VNCK takes control of VERICUT and the last only play the stuff generated by VNCK. To the best of my knowledge only CGTech Vericut and Siemens Technomatix can offer this (Can be used inside NX too). I might be wrong of course. CGTech also uses VNCK when customers submit to them stuff only Sinumeriks can do and their software is unable to accomplish. This is how they can simulate Sinumerik stuff and code Vericut to reproduce it without VNCK. http://www.cgtech.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/flyers/VERICUT_VNCK.pdf https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/Images/14541_tcm1023-67384.pdf

There should be a general thread about it G... Dll issues, the need to have MC on maintenance... Every time someone don't do a search the new threads start to get big...

This should be pinned...

I know half dozens of CAM systems reasonably well... I wish I their post processor engines were all MP's. Nothing beats Mastercam when it comes to the mix of power and easiness to tweak posts. It covers most of what post-processing can cover, and if you invest time in learning it you are rewarded.

Good luck trying to explain that to the marketing gurus. I'm sure developers don't like to see their mistakes and blindspots reproducing like Gremlins, however they're asked to turn their heads away by people who report to marketing & sales gods. I'm currently dealing with a company that heavily falls in this category. It's important to say that the major reason why these companies act like this is because we as customers allow them to and don't held them accountable. These days I take my hats off to CNC for the major changes they implemented in their development cycle. The product is not perfect (And there's no such thing) but I feel they care about it currently more than they did years ago.

Back in 2005 I had colleagues in our headquarters in Germany with electrical, adjustable desks. It's a common place in Europe, but perceived as fussy in most companies in the Americas. I visited Cimco's office long time ago... All developers had these desks... I personally would like to have a choice...

I've learned that there's no bug free engineering software and for what it is worth I'm OK with the way CGTech handles bug fixes and enhancement requests. A severe issue like that is probably fixed already and you can ask for the daily build of 8.0.4 and they will send it to you. Once I started to dive into Edgecam world, then I started to be thankful for my other CAx providers. The guys at Vero just don't care.

I dislike quite a bit as well their approach to license availability in the same host . Not going to change in our lifetime I think.

8.0.3 is a rock solid build.

ModuleWorks technology is kick a$$ isn´t it?

But how could they keep sales targets if they didn´t look fresh? You know, I´ve been for many years a critic of many things in this industry, and I finally got the message in the last couple of years. It´s almost an irony that a niche that has so much innovation also has a lot of status quo in their sales & marketing practices. In these two areas, they only change when there´s a big opportunity to make more money. A good example is the subscription model that some companies are pushing. I think Mastercam and Edgecam are in the right path to keep things as they are. We´re seeing so many quality issues in our CAM product (Not MC) but they never bother to skip facelifts and add new stuff that is not ready for prime time. It´s a nightmare to get 7 bugs out of 10 support tickets and I believe that is the situation Mastercam was 4-5 years ago. Believe me, MC now is not as bad as you may think compared to this. If you show up in a demo with a software that looks too much 90´s or 2000´s, odds are high you are going to be dumped. NC-Simul went through a massive facelift even though the product is robust for many years. Same with VERICUT. Same with Edgecam. Same with many stuff out there. It´s a business model. One that´s working for the past 40 years by the way.

You can move to Tebis

Fixed that for you again.

Optipath is the best tool for what your after in this specific case. Let it create code and it will break your feeds to you. There's a setting that let you define the max . feed change so you have absolute control over the approach and departure in terms of feed rate transition...

8.1 will bring Support for additive mfg and hybrid machines. New sectioning functionalities: We will be able to section machine views among other sectioning enhancements. 8.1 alpha already support this.

Fixed that for you.

Good one. If that's the case, find out what registry keys and values are involved and make a .bat file that turn it off. Then set a scheduled task to run this batch file in the affected PC every hour or whatever you want.

Excellent control... Manuals are pretty well designed and documented... do yourself a favor and download their manuals...

Not exactly related but coarse tolerances in Vericut may not show a tiny cut, since Vericut cut tolerance is often tied to a tool diameter and contact area. Engraving tools remove small volumes of material and feature small contact areas. Vericut can be blind to small engagements depending on the cutting tolerance setting. By coarse tolerance I mean higher than 1mm. I'd like to reinforce that Vericut cutting tolerance is not measured linearly but rather volumetricaly, so a tolerance of 1mm is not measured in any specific direction - It represents a volume.

https://en.industryarena.com/forum/21i-tb-lathe-c-axis-position-accumulated-value-reset-help--192496.html

NCSimul VERICUT There are maybe another one or two that are in the same level, but the two above are the ones you are really after.