Hello Shazam, Yes, it is a bit of a bear to modify a machine as you are only working with STL's. The "Help" that can be accessed inside Machine Sim is very good and was very helpful to me. Mike

Great info guys. Much appreciated!

Thanks so much for the help everyone!

Hello Hardmill/Josh, I appreciate the info. What is the rigidity like? It is similar to a light CAT-40 machine or ? Also, do you know what horsepower is available to the live heads. Thanks for the help

Hello everyone, re: Mori Seiki NL2000Y/500 I am wondering how this machine would work on a high-speed(hopefully) aluminum milling/turning job. Lots of surface milling at max feeds and speeds with .50-.750 dia end mills. Does anyone have any experiance with this machine or a similar model? I am trying to get a feel for how substantial the live tooling heads are and also what the HP is on the live tools and how rigid it would be when milling. Any info would be much appreciated. Mike

Hello TheePres, link It's a bug. I was really looking forward to using this path in X4 but... I hope its fixed in X5. Mike

I just got the this problem in X4 MU3. The part was fairly simple but did have quite a bit of surface milling. I did not have any issues at all until I used "Toolpath Transform" so that I could build multiple parts. Thanks,

I was going to contact him, but am figuring that 25 guys already have. Mike

Hello Ron, I will send the problem to QC first as I don't believe it to be a post issue. Thanks for the help!

Hello Ron, This is an X4MU3 post. quote: If not then Hard code it in the post and that should clear up your problem. I am not sure what you mean? Do you mean to change the post text in the post or change it to post out to WCS origin by default. IOW, get rid of the mi6 option? Thanks

Hello gcode, quote: Could it be a conflict between the default settings in the control def and the Misc settings you edit. The post, misc values on the op and the CD all have mi6=1, so I am not sure what could be happening. quote: If you don't change anything, the Mics page is normaly greyed out. Maybe you need to uncheck "automatically set to post values" for every operation, even if you are not changing anything. Yes, It looks like this is because "automatically set to post values when posting" is set in the operation defaults now. This is something new? I just changed the defaults and will try it this way for a while. I actually prefer this, I just haven't gotten around to it until you just now mentioned it. I appreciate the info and will post up later if I have more info. Thanks

Hello everybody, I am having problems with X4 MU3 processing miscellaneous integers. I am using a CNC software based 5-axis post as I always have. The post I am using is based on the "Generic Haas VF-TR_Series 5X Mill.pst" Specifically, the problem is that when mi6=1, it with revert to mi6=0 on some or all operations without warning. The value on the operation is perfectly fine and is always on by default. What happens is that, the software seems to hicupp and post out to the TP origin instead of the WCS origin. The work around is to regen the entire file and post immediately or don't use this function. I have been using the mi6=1 function since V9 and have never had a problem. Actually, this function has always worked perfect for me and is certainly a time saver for programming. Does anyone else see this issue? Thanks in advance, Mike

Advanced Multiaxis in 3-5 axis format will also undercut.

Hello Jay, X4 MU3 actually runs fine except with larger files. IE: 80mb 200+ ops + several large stls's for rest roughing. Even then, it runs fine except for more crashes than I would like. I just can't deal with major blow ups on parts like this. My point was X2 will be fine with the same part on the same box. Thank you,

Thanks for info guys!

Hello gcode, I appreciate the help. It sounds like the issue is most likely my video card. Thanks again

Hello gcode, The big bummer is that X2 handles parts like this just fine. I also did the same type of parts with V9 using an AMD Athlon 64 3200+. No problems at all. I suppose it has to do with allocations and stuff. I could not of planned for it is all. What about you, do you have crashes? Thanks for the info

I really appreciate all of the input from everyone. Unfortunately, it seems like there really isn't much of a pattern here. One of my main concerns is the Quadro FX 1400. It is kind of old. I will purchase a newer generation card and try it at some point. After that, I will be stumped. Thanks again

Hello everybody, I just switched from X2MR2sp1 to X4 MU3 and am having some pretty serious problems with crashes on larger files. Everything usually runs fine with the smaller ones, but once the file size exceed 50mb and contains many ops and such, I get random crashes. X2MR2sp1 will run perfectly using same computer and part file type. SolidWorks and everything else runs fine also. I haven't spent too much time troubleshooting as I have been trying to finish a job, but unfortunately, the crashes finally caused by Raid controller to scramble and I lost several days. Does anyone else have this issue or is it just me? I am wondering if its a freak thing on my computer or just the way X4 is. Thanks in advance! Basic workstation XP pro 32bit 4gb ram with 3gig switch enabled FX1400 with driver, 6.14.11.8246(3-17-2009) Mike

It depends if you are using oil or coolant (water based) and what type of tap and machine as you must have the power at low rpm. If coolant and standard tap and machine, I usually go slow. Something in the range of 10-15sfm would be fine. It's about 40% of what the book (OSG) would say. By the way, I always recommend tapering the hole using a taper pipe reamer or 1-1/2 deg em. This makes for much easier tapping and less chance of tap failure. Mike

Hello Leandro, Mastercam is not accounting for the axis accelerations and decelerations as all machines are very different. Anyhow, you may be able to adjust your acc/decs by using look-ahead/high-speed codes in the gcode. You might want to check out the mpmaster post and high-speed doc. See the posts tab on this website. Mike

You can use "Rotary axis positioning"(See "axis control"). You can even use "Drill 5 Axis".

I just moved to X4MU3 from X2 a few days ago and found this problem the first time I tried to use the 2D high-speed Blend Mill toolpath. Bummer..I was really hoping Blend would work. I hope they fix it soon.

Have a look in the "Pocket parameters" and make sure that the roughing is turned on. Mike

Here is a link to a PDF of the help in SW: link Mike