Hello, Now im not complaining just asking a question here. I just recently bought a copy of Mastercam X4 and was wondering why when you pick a tap from the tool list. That you still have to pick the tap option from the drilling parameters. Shouldnt this just default to tapping once you pick a tap? Or does it do this and Im just not doing it right? Again I think X4 is a great improvement over version 9 im used to. The dynamic milling was worth the money in its self. Im saving tons of money in endmills with this toolpath and time.

Thanks for the help with the vendor. Axsys was very helpful. Just bought a license and am looking forward to getting it this wednesday. Looking forward to using X4. I am so used to V9. I got the Mastercam u option and was wondering if anyone knew how that compared to streaming teacher online. Thanks

Thank you very much

I was hoping some one could lead me into the right direction. I live in michigan and I am looking at buying a license of Mastercam. Does anyone have contact information for a dealer in Michigan to buy mastercam. Thank you

Hello I just got a new haas and it has a air gun. My question is in the post I changed the mist section to m83 but dont know where to change and put a g84 to turn it off. This is what I changed and im using v9. So when I pick mist it inserts the M83 Just fine. Just dont know where to change it to put an M84 to turn it off. Thanks in advance for the help. # Coolant M code selection sm09 M9 #Coolant Off sm08 M8 #Coolant Flood sm08_1 M83 #Coolant Mist sm08_2 M8 #Coolant Tool scoolant #Target for string

Thanks for the help.

Im using v9 and I create letters to machine text. My question is there a way to edit the text, or do you have to recreate if it changes. Thanks in advance.

hello matt see you finally got around to posting on here. Talk to you later

Thank you very much for the help guys. I can not find any info on these threads anywhere. Im pretty much calling this operator error on my part since other people can find it lol. I tried finding info on these threads in the machinist handbook, but no luck. Does anyone have any info on these threads? Again thank you all for the help. This site is great and a must have for any machinist even if they dont use mastercam.

Thank you very much. Can I ask you where you found that answer as I would like to have a hard copy of this info for all unf threads.

I think maybe i asked the wrong question I know the pitch is .05 between threads. what im trying to figure out is what the dia. should be when I measure with tread mics?

I am trying to figure out what a 7/16-20 unjf thread pitch should be. Does anyone know or have a chart showing all he unj thread pitchs or where to find it. Thanks

Thank you all the help. I finally got it. I took care of it in the active teeth setting. By lying about how many teeth there were and it did it in one pass with one pitch helix down. Does mc10 thread milling work better than mc9, or should I say a little more friendly? Again thanks all for the help.

yeah your right lol. Then my next question is I have a boss that is .625 tall with a .05 thread pitch and it helix down .05 at a time. Is there a way to say go down the boss .575 one thread pitch away and make just one pass and helix down the one pitch? This would sure shorten the cycle time up.

Im just starting out with threadmilling and my question is. I figured out how to do it, but how can you make it do it in one pass and not helix down? Im just doing plastic so I can do it in a full pass and all I can figure out how to do is helix down the boss. Im using V9 and thanks for the help in advance.

I have done complicated parts this way. But when they start getting complicated like that its probley best to use planes. I mainly do simply forth axis parts with holes and slots and helixs. So that flat methods works good for me. Sorry I couldnt help more. Good luck with your project and I will be reading this post more as I can learn more.

Say you got a 2" diameter shaft 4 inches lg., and you want to drill a hole at 0,90,180,270 degrees. You multilply the dia. by pi. Which is 6.2831. Then you draw a box 4" long and 6.2831 wide. Then you take the 6.2831 line and break it up into 4 pcs. Which represents the 4 holes at 90 degrees apart. Then when you drill the holes you you pick the rotary axis and pick sub. y axis and put in the dia of 2". I didnt realize how bad im at explaining how to do something. What im explaining isnt really clear unless you have seen it done before. I bought a 4th axis training cd from http://www.tipsformanufacturing.com/html/v9_mastercam.html and it was worth every cent. It really cleared up forth axis programming for me. Sorry I couldnt explain how to do this better.

I was wondering if any one ever programs in a flat pattern for the forth axis as I find this very simply. Than all you have to do is substitute the X or Y axis for the A. Just wondering because I never hear any one talk about programming this way.

Jeff I misquoted myself im behind lapeer east. So your right by my shop

Right off my M24, on a side street call court. just passed lapeer west high school.

hello mayday im in lapeer

thank you I will give them a call.

We are doing that method right now. but I got 25,000 pcs to do. It takes quite a while to do. Maybe if I get the whole high school lol. Just trying to find a more effective way to do this. Thanks

Does anyone know of a burr house in michigan. Thanks

I have thousand of stainless steel retangle tubing. I have to deburr the ends, on the outside and the inside. They all have cut outs in them, that got to be deburred also. Any suggestion on the fastest way to deburr them. I found on the web to maybe try thermal deburring. Any suggestion would be appriciated. Thank you in advance.