Ok. I save my files to an external hard drive. This morning it did an update and changed all permissions. Changed them and it saved my file. Thanks John!

I opened a file sent to me from our engineer. When I go to save it on my computer, it comes up and says permission denied. I am administrator on this computer and my maintenance was updated on 5-20-2015 with a new code. What could be causing this?

As I recall the cutter comp has to be turned on in an x or y move only. You may have to program your cutter to move to your center point first then to z depth then move x or y toward your cut turning comp on. When you finish your cut you have to move in x or y turning comp off then raise z. HTH

You may try using a smaller endmill to rough out and then finish with the 3/8. Depending on your depth of cut, you may need to lower your rpm a little. I ususally get the best results with a .005 per flute chip load.

Is your material sawed out or torched from a larger piece. What we get here is all torched out of a larger piece of plate. All of the torching hardens those sides. We set up and cut our material to size first which removes the scale and hardness from the faces. Then from there it cuts like butter.

Sounds like the voltage is too high. May try dropping it a few notches. Also may try dropping your wire tension down a notch or two.

Is it breaking in the cut or in the take up tube?

Jeff, What we need is basically a standard right angle head that fits a Bridgeport vertical manual mill. But it needs to have an extended nose piece on it that turns the endmill back vertical to cut the keyway parallel to the bore length half the length of the pipe. Thanks for the reply though. See if this helps: Take a piece of pipe and lay it down flat running parallel to the T-slots on a vertical mill (Bridgeport). Now we need to cut a groove in the X axis on the inside of the bore wall that is against the table while keeping the mill head vertical. But the keyway does not cut all of the way from one end to the other. It stops halfway of the length. HTH

Hey guys and gals, We have a machine part to make that has a key cut in the bore. The thing is that the keyway only goes about half the length of the bore and stops. We found a right angle head for CNC, but we are needing one for R-8 manual mill. The one that we found is a Big Kaiser BCV40-AG90. Could someone point me in the direction of a right angle head similar to the Big Kaiser, but for a manual mill. Thanks for any info.

What we always do is make spacers to put on our arbors with keys. Put the spacer on first then the blade with the cap and screw. Our caps are counterbored so that the center doesn't make contact with the arbor before it grips the blade. HTH. Hi-jack: Hey Nathan. How you doing? Long time no see. I took your MC class in 2006.

What I do is put the floppy in and hit F4. It will come up as I believe program 8999 select it and press edit program. It will show all programs on the disk and the extension. HTH.

The double parentheses or it may be the period in the comment. Our Haas will not accept a program that has a period in the comments.

When we have a tool stuck in our Haas we get someone with a deadblow hammer and while one person presses the tool release button the other hits the toolholder on the side to get it to release. We place a box filled about half way with rags under the toolholder, so that when it pops out it has a soft place to land.

I make the tube bending dies for our company and I have never heard of what your boss wants to do. I have my parts setting down flat and cut with a ballnose endmill.

Ok, what I finally did was removed MC and reloaded it and the problem has gone away. I guess it was a setting that got changed that I could not find. Thanks for all of the information and help.

Guys and Gals, My problem still persists. The part that I am running is in a 4th axis rotary. The rotary table is setting on the far right side of my table with the chuck facing in x. My tailstock is on the far left side of my table. My YZ 0 is the center of my rotary, and X is the left end of my part at the tailstock. I want to cut the back side of the part (part rolled forward +90 degrees). I have checked my WCS and my WCS is set to Top, Tool plane is set to Back, and Construction Plane is set to Back. In Verify and Backplot it runs fine, It is when I Post the program that the program is turned 180 degrees, like the rotary is on the left side of my table and the tailstock is on the right. Is there a setting that might have got changed. I am at wits end. This only started Wednesday of last week. I did a system restore and it did not help. Thanks in advance for any help. And thanks for the previous replies. This is on a Haas VF-3.

Had the file re-sent to me to make sure someting was not corrupt in the file. I have checked my planes and they are all the same. I am still having the same problem with the new file. Verify shows everything running correctly, but it is when I post the program that everything gets switched (x over x) and I get a G55 instead of G54.

Hey all, I have a part that I did a rough pocket on using a 1.25 flat endmill. I copied that tool path and selected a 1.0 flat endmill to get me closer to the bottom of the radius that I am cutting. The tool path for the 1.25 endmill posted fine. The program for the 1.0 endmill comes out with a different offset number and the program is turned 180 degrees in x, causing my part to be run backward. This is on a vertical mill. Any help would be Greatly Appreciated.

Is anyone else having problems with the FTP site? I go to it and it asks for the login name and password. I typed those in and it pops up again to enter login name and password (over and over).

Down to 32 hrs a week. Our company laid off 30 employees this week.

Petey, We have a Haas VF-3 that runs tools for extended periods of time and they stick quite often. What I do is clean the taper on the tool holder and the spindle taper, then I spray the tool holder taper and spindle taper with CRC DryGlide Dry Film Lubricant that I get from MSC. HTH

Tony, that made a difference in my backplot. It looks a lot cleaner. I will find out how that does on the next part tommorrow. Thanks for the tip.

Hey guys and gals, I am having a problem with a part that I am cutting. It is a square block that I am cutting a 3D profile down one side. The problem I am having is that after a few rough cuts my cutter wants to come in over the part and plunge cut in Z directly on the part. I am using a 2.5" shellmill to do the roughing, so this poses a problem when it tries to plunge using half of the cutter. I am cutting the profile using a pocket toolpath with a containment boundry and a starting point outside my containment boundry. My use entry point is checked, I am cutting from the outside in, tool containment is set to center, and my plunge is set to outside boundry. What am I over looking that could be causing it to plunge into the part. It destroyed one of my shellmills yesterday. I tried to get the file on the FTP but couldn't get it to go. I will try again and let you know if I get it on there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Good luck. Hope everything works out well for you. (Also if you have any spare Toyota parts lying around I'll be more than glad to take them off your hands. You know to keep them from cluttering up your shop. )

That is cool. How long did it take to cut it?