You can try this. It's helped me to speed up alot of functions.

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...t=003174#000000

I Have a job that needs a bottle cap made with a GL45 thread. Does anyone know what the specs for this thread are?

I don't cut a lot of MDF myself but here's where I buy my cutters.

Onsrud Cutters:

http://www.onsrud.com/

Give them a call and tell them what you are doing. They have been very helpful in there recomendations for me in the past.

Andy,

The speckles are arc center points.

If you don't want to see them go to:

Config

CAD Settings

Display Arc Center Points

and uncheck the box.

Thanks for the info. I'll be looking forward to seeing MR1.

"Change at point" has always been there in V9.

Thad. I had never seen this. You learn something new every day!!

Found it. In the operation manger left click on geometry, Right click on the chain if mill cycle or point if drill cycle, and click "change at point.

Not what I'm looking for. In 9 you could right click on the NCI path in the operations manager and go into a toolpath editor.

Is the Toolpath editor still in X? If so how do I get to it?

Try Here

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and here

http://www.logotypes.ru/default_e.asp

I've had a set for 20 years now. Don't use them as much anymore, but sometimes they save my butt.

Thanks dkintzel, I'm real excited about the ShopBot. A new adventure for me. This machine is for my retirement. Hoping to get about 20 to 30 hours a week. Something to keep me occupied and keep the old brain going. I appreciate the offer for help. If I have problems with it I will let you know.

Again Thanks to all for the help!!!

dkintzel,

I'm hoping to buy Mastercam router, but for kow I'll use what I have.

Bryan,

You got it!

Works like a charm

Thanks to all for the great help. This forum is the best.

dkintzel,

I'm using mill. I'll download your changes and see what I get.

Bryan,

I'll try that next. I was looking in post help last night and though that might be where to go next.

dkintzel ,

I'm trying to get full 3 axis movement.

This is a sample of what I would expect to see. I realize that the post you have and the one I'm working with have to have the create arcs filter turned to off. In Mastercam ver 9 I can't set the filters this way. If I can I must be doing somthig wrong becouse I get the same output no matter how I set the filters.

'(PROGRAM NAME - T)

'(DATE=DD-MM-YY - 04-05-05 TIME=HH:MM - 06:54)

'(UNDEFINED )

JS,1.000,.667

JH

J2,-.500,.000

JZ,.250

JZ,.100

MS,1.667,.250

MZ,.000

MS,3.333

M3,-.500,.000,.020

M3,-.498,.000,.039

M3,-.497,.000,.059

M3,-.494,.000,.078

M3,-.490,.000,.098

M3,-.486,.000,.117

M3,-.481,.000,.136

M3,-.476,.000,.155

M3,-.469,.000,.173

M3,-.462,.000,.191

M3,-.454,.000,.209

M3,-.446,.000,.227

M3,-.436,.000,.244

M3,-.426,.000,.261

M3,-.416,.000,.278

Lee,

You lost me on that one. Can you explain what you are talking about a little better.

This is my latest attempt but still not right. Am I on the right track? Any ideas?

dkintzel ,

I don't see where your post is outputing the X,Z and Y,Z Planes as lines instead of arcs. maybe I have something set up wrong in mastercam but I can't find it. I don't have my Shopbot yet. Its on order, do in 1st of June. I did order the 5hp columbo spindle. I'm running the Shopbot program in preview mode for now to try and work out the bugs.

Lee K. White,

Any 3d tool path that tries to output an arc in the X,Z or Y,Z plane. I need line segments not arcs.

mike.b,

Yes I started with the post from the ShopBot web site. I did update it for Mastercam ver 9.

betts,

I did set the filters. Didn't help.

To everyone,

Thanks so far. I'm still not getting what I want. I've been playing with setting linarc to work with the plane value but no luck so far. I'll keep trying. Keep the ideas coming.

dkintzel,

The post you put on the FTP site seems to have some bugs in it. This is the output I got from it.

'(PROGRAM NAME - T)

'03-05-0513:39

&PROGTOOL=1

START:

SO,1,1

IF %(52)=0 THEN GOTO START

'MS,0.75

J2,.500,.000

JZ,.100

MZ,.000

CG,,-.500,.000,-.500,.000,T,-1

CG,,.500,.000,.500,.000,T,-1

MZ,.100

JZ,.250

JX,-.500

JZ,.100

MZ,.000

G18CG,,.500,.000,.500,.000,T,-1

MZ,.100

JZ,.250

STOP:

SO,1,0

IF %(52)=1 THEN GOTO STOP

JX,90

JY,-0.125

END

I'm trying to fix a post for a ShopBot router. The Shopbot can't output arcs in the X,Z and Y,Z planes. What I want to do is have the post output arcs in the X,Y Plane and output line segments in the X,Z and Y,Z planes. I know I can put "linarc = 1" at the

front of the post, but this does't let me output arcs in the X,Y plane. I have placed my post and a sample file on the FTP site under Text_&_post_files_&_misc, Shopbot.zip. Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Nathan,

I wrote a post for the Protrak LX3 lathe about 4 years ago. It may work on the newer controls. Its on Jay's FTP site under Text and Post files. Mpltrak.zip. I shared this post along time ago. It is a protected post and can't be edited. If it will work for you, you're welcome to use it. If you need edits in it contact me by e-mail.

We use a program called ThreadTech.

http://www.threadcheck.com/threadtech_software.htm

If you do a lot of threads it's well worth the cost.

Here's a sample of the results

..............OSBORN PRODUCTS INC..............

Pitch diameter tolerances and other data for EXTERNAL

THREADS, class 1A, 2A, 3A, series UNC, UNF, UNEF,

UN, UNJ, UNS.

Number of starts............................... 1

Threads per inch............................... 12.0000

Decimal lead is................................ 0.08333

1.875-12 UNJ-2A EXTERNAL THREAD

The major diameter is......................from 1.8732

to 1.8618

The pitch diameter is......................from 1.8191

to 1.8131

The minor diameter is......................from 1.7770

to 1.7660

Best wire size is.............................. 0.04811

Constant is.................................... 0.072169

Maximum radius at root is...................... 0.01500

Minimum radius at root is...................... 0.01250

Measurement over wires is..................from 1.891269

to 1.885269

Pitch diameter tolerance for 2A is............. 0.0060

Allowance for class 2A is...................... 0.0018

The helix angle is............................. 0.83542

Or if you prefer 0 Degrees 50 Minutes 7 Seconds

These are COMPUTER values......................

Run date is 03-25-05

I use an nport server. Have 9 machine tied to it and we can send from any of 14 computers in the plant. Works great. About $1000 but well worth it.

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A good place to get some info and tests to give applicants is http://www.nims-skills.org/home/index.htm

Jeff,

Go to plot menu, Click on move/prev, press the "f" key on your keybord to fit to screen, Press backup and then Do It. This will adjust the scale to plot to you paper size.

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