Yes. The last shop i worked at did. Contact glen sharp at sharper solutions for help.(www.wirelessshopfloor.com) He was our reseller of the cimco dnc software.

We got it, big help! Thanks

Use the STL in stock setup?

I am doing a part that resembles an egg beater/mixer. The end is open so we preped the part with the lathe. My real question being is there a way to define what my stock size is so that mastercam can machine only the material left using the solid model? I have some tool paths that work right now, just alot of wasted air moves since we machined what we could using the lathe, following it up with a 4 axis hurco. I've done vary sizes of these, but I am left with the task of speeding the job up. Any ideas on tool paths to try or ways to define the bounding boxes or shapes would be great. Thanks

By you mention the WCS again made me check something. I was changing everything to another view...WCS, Tool plane, C plane... I just tried it. If I leave the WCS to top and Chnage only the Tool Plane and C Plane to another view it post my A rotation. I am still getting G55 and G56 not sure about that one...But that is a simple fix to atleast get me up and running and worry about later. Thanks!!

It would be for a Hurco VM10.

I was trying to do a 4 sided part on a rotary table. I applied tool paths, used my WCS to change view and apply tool paths to that particular side of the part. When I post my code though, all I get are g54, g55 g56 etc. I do get a starting A0 on the g54 line, but then no more. I have tried toggling on, under the Rotary Axis Control, Rotation Type, Axis Positioining...But that doesn't change the code any either. Any ideas? Since its a simply 4 sided part. I am able to work around it by posting the code and changing the g55 and g56 to either A180, A270...etc. Just a pain. Is this something I need to fix in the post file itself? Thanks

Is there a way I can move my x5 shared folders onto a server location so that two pcs can access the same machine deffs, control deff, tool libaries, etc? I want to avoid the chance of having two different machine def one two seperate machines. I am already storing all the MCX files on a common location I just want to make the Shared information the same way.

One quick thought. Try throwing in a G99 before the start of your drill cycle Something like g99 g88 x1.0 y1.0 z.50 z.10 r.10 f5.0

Industry Standard is nice, but once you get all the bugs worked out Hurco's Basic NC works just fine. I have 8 machines all running Basic NC. I haven't tried rigid tapping as I only have that option on two of my machines. As we only started peck rigid tapping a few weeks ago with the one..."In conversational mode" I would get rid of the G80 at the end of each position. I will also have to see what I get when I output the some rigid tapping code and run it quick to see what the machine does.

I am going to be getting a job, that I need remove a large amount of material. I am wondering what tool paths and tools everyone is using to get the most out of time. The material I need to cut is 6061 so that's nice. However my pocket with be approx. 40"x25"x1.5" deep. I need to have .5" radii in all corners. Would the HSS tool paths with full engagment be my best bet? Or use a face mill for most material removal and go back in the pick corners?

Josh, Yes I am using a Hurco Post that was orginally for V9 Mastercam. Just keep migrating it up to newer Mastercam Versions

My machine doesn't use R and Q. The full line of code would read 2+ holes Z2.M08 Z.5 G83X-2.5Y0.Z.9715Z.55Z.015F3.1 X2.5 G80 Z2. Where the z.9715 is the .5(Retract Height) + my Final Z depth, the second z (z.55 is first peck depth, third z.015 is the remaining peck depths 1 hole Z2.M08 G83X-2.5Y0.Z.9715Z.55Z.015F3.1 G80 Just not sure why it wont output the z.5 retract height like when there is 2+ holes

I was posting code today for a few drill cycles and noticed that if I drill 2 holes using Peck drill, setting a Clearance Height, checking the use at Start and end of Operation and setting a retract height. I get good code... Z2.0 Z.5 G83...etc. However if I use Peck drill for only 1 hole, and use the same settings as above, i get: Z2. G83...etc. Any ideas? The post should be using the same Peck drill cycle to generate code reguardless of how many holes.

Looking at trying a Guhring-Firex...Any suggestions on Feeds and Speeds?

Dont have a Guhring Rep...Never tried them.

Oh and i'm going 3 times the diameter deep...Like .375 deep...thru the part

I need to drill .118 Diameter holes in a welded 316 disc. There are 1800 holes. The company used to use cobalt drills but it takes forever. Like 24hrs for one part. I have 3 pcs to make this time. I have been trying to ATI Stellram Hardcore drills...running at 180SFM and a chip load of .002, but drill only holds up for 30-100 holes. Ive used the Hardcore drills in Inconel and they cut great. Any suggestions. I can't seem to get a drill to really break a chip, wants to stay stringy.

Jimmy I am glad to hear a MasterCam post can be written. As I said before we want add MasterCam lathe. I may be contacting you in the future for some post help. Thanks Ken Kreitz CNC Mang./Faro app. Eng.

Steve If you could find that old post I would greatly appreciate it. That will give us a starting place. I have had some post training, & I have wrighter past for hurco's in the past. thanks Ken P.S. you can email me @ [email protected]

The Alpha uses some type of an encryption, Had our resaler hear to demo lathe X3. He wasn't sure if we could. He asked us to contact Alpha. Easyer said than done, bought the machine in 1997. There doesn't seem to be any support/ very little. I will try to post a sample of the code from the Lathe thanks Ken

Hey All I am woundering if anyone out there is using MasterCam Lathe X3 on Am older Alpha 550 Lathe. If not,does anyone know if I can uase Mastercam on this Lathe. Thanks Ken

Thanks Richard, we saw that as an option so I guess maybe we will call hurco and ask. With that Ultinet does that use the hyperlink is that the same as the hurco hyperlink? The only real reason we are looking to get rid of floppy disks is because some programs are to big for the floppy.

Alittle off your topic, but we are looking into networking all the machines together with one central hub storing all the programs...NC and conversational. We use the Mastercam editor to send NC files to the machines now, anyone sending conversational files? What are you using? I tried using the mastercam editor to send a conversational program but machine just errors out.

kunfuzed, We use Basic NC on all the hawks, and the BMC. And I use Industry standard for our BMC, only because it runs 4 axis surfacing. I also have to same problem as you do in your other post with the g54 line sending my Z down to a spot that isn't programmed. Still haven't tweaked that out. Still new to using/modifying mastercam posts and what our machine needs to run. I found that since it does it right at the beginning of our program. i just let it start to go to that stop, then abort the run and restart. Problem solved....kinda.