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Their default ribbon layout is not user friendly (for me). I always have 2-3 custom ribbon tabs to have the layout more efficient. It's the only thing you can do to make your work easier on yourself.
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creating a dummy group and keeping it at the bottom usually helps with the disappearing arrow bug.
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Uncheck these in the ribbon options area:
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It is, I turned that off right away, but I'll be damned if I can remember where. I'll try to find it.
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What do you mean by single sided tolerance? Something like +.000/-.005"? If so, as a programmer, I prefer the customer models to all be drawn at the mean. And currently there is only 1 that does it, they are literally perfect. It's a programmers dream.
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Ideas for threading highly abrasive material
jeff replied to Guess_who's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
Ask your cutting tool resharp guys, ours will send out any tool to get diamond coated and it's actually not that pricey. Granted it's not a true PCD,but we have great success using these diamond coated tools in G10. -
Is that in U.S. dollars? that price seems awful high. Especially for the video card. $1740 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/PNY-Quadro-VCQP5000-PB-256-bit-Express/dp/B01N6W4CVB
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The P5000 would be a good card, I think most people here running Quadros currently have the P4000 The bigger question is what CPU are you looking at, and how much RAM? Also what speed of RAM are you looking at. 32Gb of RAM is your sweet spot, and get at some FAST ram. You will have to turn on the setting in your BIOS to make it run faster than stock though,but that's easy.
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My taps for most steels are 50-100 sfpm
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Dynamic Milling VS Machine Accuracy....over time
jeff replied to 4VRGJ03's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
It depends on 2 things. Do you have a low end machine that can't take advantage of these toolpaths? How you program it is another big factor. Dynamic milling is a huge timesaver in most scenarios. And if your parts could benefit from it but you're not using it, then you're losing money because your competitor IS using dynamic paths. I've been using Dynamic on my Okuma mills for years. I think 7+ years. And have yet to replace a ball screw because of my toolpaths. In fact, I've only replaced 1 ball screw because of a crash. -
Yep, blame the software.
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I'm not sure if a 4 axis license is necessary to make that (can't remember the limitations). But that's not using 4 axis simultaneous. And he's only using 3 axis toolpaths. What is the machine you're wanting to do this on? Does your program need to be complete or do you just need to make the part? Or can you just program one feature and hand edit in the 4th axis rotations then cut that feature again?
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Odd. Maybe he doesn't know 4 axis stuff? Or they aren't ready to teach it yet? But like Jeff.D said, that MPFAN post is a 4 axis post by default.
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What did your instructor say when you asked him?
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what material? how deep is the groove? What machine? Look at Iscar face grooving tooling, or any other big name brands. They all have good stuff but in my opinion Iscar is king of grooving.
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Question about direction of chain
jeff replied to AppleUser347's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
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RMB = Right Mouse Button
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+1 For 1st pass offset, I always set mine to .100" because our sawed stk varies
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Mine isn't saving the files anywhere, I just looked in C:/Users/Public/Documents/X+/templates/setup sheets. Chrome even had another update today. 3rd one in about 2 weeks I believe. Oh well, I guess it's Firefox for the time being.
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Out of curiousity, how long does it take you to set the length offset?
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Inverse Time is usually an option. but look in your control definition for this page:
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If that's the top looking down,I can't think of anything that would achieve this zigzag with a single drive line.
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Why not just use the Transform/Rotate option?
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Using multiple stock elements in one file for simulation.
jeff replied to JB7280's topic in Industrial Forum
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The only "fix" that I know of to elimiate the crashes is to shutdown and reboot Mastercam about once every 2-3 hours, there is a memory leak of sorts that hasn't been fixed.
