Is it me or is the chain selection tool not available yet? I would have thought this would have been easy to update for X6, No? ETA? Husker

Yeah it is for a '97 mori... Anyway, they don't make the HDD dataserver anymore so it has a flash memory hard drive now. But the data server board itself apparently hasn't changed for this control. Interesting how they do stuff.

BTW, this is what Fanuc told me to buy. We are having an older machine upgraded with data server, and when they started the install (had to stop because they need another option board chassis) I was looking at the board and asked how I was going to hook into it... as our other machine with data server has ethernet directly into the data server. The tech called his support group and they said to go there and get that box, and that is all I would need in combination with generic FTP software. Husker

The 15 pin is an aui connector. In short go buy this... Black Box . Com Basically from how I understand it AUI is legacy ethernet / an old intermediate connection that is no longer part of a 10baseT ethernet device. Husker

Turning or Milling?

How are you commanding the M42? Anyway, I believe there is a F parameter associated with this.

I do not recall what the mcode was but there is a non modal mcode you can call with the b move to rotate in the opposite direction.

It can be a pretty simple macro. Or it can be pretty cumbersome. Depending on what you need for functionality. I wrote one that simple takes one offset(g54...) and transfers compensated values to another offset (g55...). Works very well. Use it all the time. A typical callup for me would be. G65 P9050 A0. B123.222 C1. D2. E3. F2. rotate G54.1 P1 to 123.222 and put into G54.1 P3 This would not physically move the machine but would set the offset to be used when you move there. I am willing to give it up if you need it. But I find with on machine "software" like this it is best to write them yourself so you are familiar with it in case you are having problems and need to troubleshoot. In a nutshell you need only do a few things. establish centerline of rotation calculate vector to C/L rotate vector about c/l output vector endpoint in cartesian coordinates easy as pie. Words of advice. Pay attention to your quadrants. Make sure to know how you trig functions act in each quadrant. Or as I didm just create different cases for each quadrant. Good Luck

posted an answer to an old one... didn't realize it was dug up... disregard or delete

Not so familiar with the DNC options in Cimco, but you might be able to set it to add that line back in based on the filename it reads, most DNC systems I have dealt with have that capability. You would then have no need to change things at the control. With the E100L and P200L (At least I believe the E control does), you have ethernet, why use rs232 at all? Hook them up to the network, firewall them so they can only see the one server, point them to the dnc folder on the server (might need to setup a FTP service), and bypass the DNC system. Cat skinned a different way. Husker

That was about as open as it gets.... I think I figured it out. Ended up being a graphics driver issues. I reverted a few drivers back and it doesn't do it any more. So i am guessing that was it. The driver installed was the Dell Solidworks suggested driver.... Now I think I am on the stock dell driver. Gonna go ahead and get the non dell bastardized driver for solidworks and give that a shot.

Same file with less efficient toolpathing pre my update to x6 does the same thing in x5, just doesn't end in a big mess....

Pre X6 Didn't really notice this ever. Can't say that I remember this ever happening. Though I don't use verify much, it is handy for collision detection in the form of violating final geometry. But my stl goes batty and grows like a crystal , wondering if anyone else is experiencing this or if I need to go after a new video card. I have an ATI card which as it may not usually be suggested has worked well for me up to now. I am going to install X6 on my other workstation and try it out over there on an nvidia card.... P.S. I get this with stock model as well from time to time. Husker

Got an interesting situation. Will make a huge difference with cycle time. Say you have a large pocket with small corner radii. So you use a dynamic mill pass to hack it out with a large tool. You go back in later using the Dynamic Rest Milling Function, and since this pocket is buried deep in a casting (4 inches with .2 radii) you use an LBS 3/8 to go dig it out using small depths of cut at full width and fast feeds. I thought this would work great.... What I didn't realize is that dynamic rest milling is prioritized by depth with no way to toggle it like the old contour toolpath. This just plain sucks... Lots of Z then XY then Z rapid movement avoiding walls in my pocket.... I would very much like to avoid doing that. Kills cycle time something fierce. So now I guess I am going to have to go in there and do it with contour passes and a slightly lighter depth of cut so I can prioritize by contour instead of depth. Luckily this particular job is well suited for this. If it required multiple side passes then I would be screwed... Figure this might be a good enhancement eh? Rest mill by depth or by cleanup region. Husker

Aka Predator...

Yeah remote desktop will do this in a heartbeat.... Esp going from a 24" widescreen to a 17" normal ratio monitor on the floor.... PCDMIS does this when you start jumping around from screen to screen. We have a button in the toolbar that puts it back to our normal config. Would be a handy to create one of these for Mcam.... Husker

Old Post, Probably dropped it out of his photo bucket or whatnot.

My thinking is the only way to do that right now would be to write up some quick VBScript and link it to a button. Kind of a copy parameters function. Hypothetical easy route of course.

Resurrection of an old thread... Never heard back what they were going to do with this one, my reseller told me it was apparently it had been logged as a bug back when i first ran into this issue in August. Sigh... Being able to input a negative value into the increment field is not possible in the current release of X6.

What does your control do if you bring it (partial if neeeded) into memory?

Release info on the website says 15.0.4.3 for x64, my original x64 X6 install says 15.0.3.28. So I guess it is in fact different? Husker

Try it with the one way method and make sure your overlap is over 50% Husker

I guess I see the reasoning behind this now. Still annoying for facing type passes, makes the code a bigger pain to prove out in SBK, not that it bothers me, I hardly singleblock in mill programs, only on approach.... But others here will single block each and every line unless instructed not to (ex. surfacing). Anywho, guess this topic is pretty much dead now...

Harrumph! Doesn't make sense to me why it couldn't. At what point does the filter process the toolpath?

It's usually from lead in and lead out. But say you had two lines adjoined. Could Mastercam filter them into one move when posted?