I have been running wires for over 20 years. The one thing I would say to some one thinking about a new wire is what do you want to do wire it. every machine has it advantages and disadvantages. I have run Mits and Charmilles. Hate the Charmilles and there serves. Love the Mits and there services. You are not going to beat the Mits for accuracy. Some time ago I was running a 14 year old Mits. and holding +/-0.00005 on hole size for a repeat job. I would stay away from cheap brands. Wire machine are not mills it is completely different thinking. One important thing about wires is the technology they have for cutting. You want a machine that has technology for cutting all kinds and heights of material. uses a steel technology for carbide or aluminum will not work to good. Keep that in mind when you are looking for a wire

So how long before it is fixed, so we can download X6?

Edit/Simplify keeps crashing X5. If I select more than one spline or one that is a little complicated it crashes X5. but if I save that same file as an X4 version then open it in X4 I can Edit/Simplify the whole file at once with out a trouble. Anybody have any idea what could be causing that?

Charmilles have an E4 that you can use when cutting like you are just replace the E2 with an E4. In some cases you might want to increase the wire speed a couple of notches. there factory setting have it running pretty slow and that can cause some problems

I have sent a file that it keeps doing it on to QC. I hope they get it fixed it is really annoying. I have a lot of old files that I use from repeat customers. The best work around I cam up with is once I open a file and see that the color is wrong, I just open configuration and then reopen the .config file I use for startup. Don't know why opening an old file messes this up?

With the new X4 when I open some old files. It starts out with the entity color same as background. Then it pops up with an error code "Action not allowed" And it says the system entity color matches the current background color. restoring previous system entity color. You should select a different color, or change the background color." But I can't get pop up error message to close, no mater what I try. The only way I can get around it is do a control alt delete and close X4 in task manager. Any one else having this problem?

I have run Charmilles for 4 years and Mitsubishi for 12 Years. Hate the Charmilles, hate their machine and support. Love the Mits, both there machines and support. I would say buy a Mitsubishi.

Check your filter page If your filter is a lot larger than your your linearization tolerance, some times that causes trouble

I got it figured out. Max lead out was checked accidentally.

After installing X3 I discovered that at the end of the wire path it no longer moves the U V back to 0,0. X2 would always move it back to 0,0 at the end of the wire path. I thought there was a setting somewhere to force the U V back to 0,0 but I can't find it. Has anyone else come across this?

I would definitely suggest some training from Mastercam on the Wire end running wires is a completely different than mills. Also you will have to make some minor changes on the standard post that they give you to make it work on Charmilles. Just eliminate the D value in the post. Charmilles tec files will put their own offset in the tec file. I have been using Mastercam with Charmilles 240cc and 440 for 4 years. and it works OK

Is there any way to get a copy of the X3 beta. I have a new job coming in. And a change that people have told me about in X3 would save me lots of programing time. So it would be nice if I could get a hold of it.

Rick There is no waiting for the tool on this machines. The machine has a pot that will hold the nexet tool in line so when it comes to a tool change a arm grabs the old tool on one end and has the new tool on the other end. So there is no waiting. Maestro This machine required a little differnt think whan a VMC. We have 2 smaller ones. You will like the Makinos those things are rock solid and fast. Scary fast if you are not used to it. As far as the presetter goes. Depending on how many different parts you run if you can set the tools up and keep them in the machine then a prester will not be that big of deal. But if you are setting up a lot of tooling. Having a presetter that can load the infromation right into the machine is a big time saver.

You say you are subbing the main program (The part contour). Could you just change the A in the post to A=H50 for example then in the main program have H50= what ever taper you want. So H=0 would not cut taper and H=-5.0 would put a 5 degree taper in the part.

LOL I was just thinking, Agie is Charmilles know that is why you haven't heard from them. Charmilles service is bad