When I key ejec. pin heads I use contour ramp. A lot faster in my opinion.

HTH

You need to pick your 4 depths you need .125, .156, .1875, and .25

All I see are 4 operations 3 contour ramp and 1 drill no Pocket operation?????????

Use the setdir C-hook.

HTH

Maybe in ver X??????

I had one a couple of months ago that took a while to create. I did check the task manager and it said not responding. Needless to say I stopped Mastercam thinking it locked up. That cost me a lot of time on the job, if I would have walked away and worked on something else, like I usually do, everything would have been fine. I ended up breaking the file in 3 pieces as it wouldn't fit in the Haas anyway.

Status bar would be nice

But patience is all I needed that day.

We have a series II

mpboss6 for a post

If you run the program again does it repeat?

Here is what I do so I can run dry at high RPM's, all it takes is a flexable tube and a wire tie, quick to add and remove. Then you can run the coolant and stay dry. Fasten the other end down or it will fly around on you.

3D models here from our main customers. The only prints are from someone with an idea that walks in the door, or pencil sketches, then we draw it up for them.

#85 is set at .005 here, never messed with it.

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The smaller your Setting 85 is, the slower the machine will run. We leave ours set at .001 in the control, and then use G187 (a post misc setting in Mastercam) to set it at .0001 when we are finishing mold surfaces. With the HSM option we max out at 90-95 IPM with it set this tight, but we get excellent finishes when surfacing with a ball nose.

With it set at .001 we can run up around 150 (when roughing or semi-finishing).

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I'll have to play with setting, thanks nomoslogos

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Or click here

Or do a search for more info, this has been covered a lot.

We have 1999 VF3, no problems here.

Maybe put your file on the FTP site or maybe a picture.

lots of reading material

What a great place for help and answers.

Talked about the other day here

HTH

look at surface problem 02

Got you a surface, but didn't take time to trim along bottom curve. You should be able to squash the lower line and trim the surface

HTH

You would have liked the Aura Cad feature. You could see the endmill dia. all you had to do was click the mouse and you get a series of overlapping circles following you mouse. Really fast and easy to use, kind of like a slinky affect.

A quick work-around I use is create, arc, pt dia, sketch and draw a few circles the size of your cutter, then connect CL points and use a contour tool path.

HTH

Aura cad cam had a feature like that, I liked using it to face off, or clean out an area quickly. Don't use Aura Cad Cam anymore.

3R here

Needed something, had nothing good when I started here.

Accurate, easy to use

+1 to Rhino

You can lock the tool path if you want to stop the red X problem.

I did this on the last mold I was working on for the first time. I was cutting, programming, posting, cutting, programming, verifying, posting.................ect.