Is your tool setup to be used on the right spindle?

Now I found it Thanks

It that in the engraving toolpath?? Is so I dont have that option. I will have to convert the text to drafting lines and chain the letters in a contour toolpath.

Need to engrave part number on face of round part. Is there a way in MasterCam to do make the text go in a cirle? Thaks

What does the MMT stand for?

available soon at a reseller near you............. The following will be added with the release of X3 New automatic feature based milling of Solids New automatic feature based drilling of Solids Supports SolidWorks solid history data Translator Updates: Parasolids® – 19 ACIS – R18 AutoCAD® DWG, DXF, DWF – 2008 AutoCAD Inventor IPT, IAM, IDW – 2008 CATIA® V5 – R18 KeyCreator® – V6 Pro/E® – Wildfire 4 Rhino® – 4 Solid Edge® – V20 SolidWorks® – 2008 Inventor® 2009 Swept surface improvements New auto-sync for Wire New 2d high speed toolpaths Core mill Area mill Rest mill Blend mill Peel mill Enhancements to Peelmill toolpath New controlled engagement facing toolpath Enhanced HST holder definition Multi-axis speed improvements New ability to save STL as a mesh entity True Solids 5-axis verify now included at no extra charge Improvements in Lathe machine definitions Support of single file ATP processing New ability to nest block drill toolpaths to a restricted area Engrave toolpaths now supports multiple entry points Multiple 4-axis Wirepaths in 1 operation now supported. New Sculpt Organic Surface type in Art. Improvements to Art manager Art shading and material mapping improvements

John, How do you turn on the "debugger"??? Thanks

Justin You are 100% correct. I'm just trying to think of all the ridicules answers I will get when I ask why they are using that tool. "its what we always use", "have not had any problems with it", "it don't build up chips". What do I know, I'm just a 24 year old with 7 years in this business

I think this is what needs done

I have mostly been doing lathe programming the past 2 years in this position, but am starting to do a little more mill programming. I prevesly ran, setup, programmed, ect HMC's for a German Machine tool builder and management loved to see those Aluminum chips flying at high feed rates. Everything there was metric so dealing with feed rates in English still has me dividing everything by 25.4 to see about what speed that is compared to the HMC's I ran. Today I was reprogramming a part that was programmed out in the shop and I noticed the feeds and speed are way off from what I believe the Haas VF4 can handle for Aluminum, they look about right for mild steel. The drill that were using are coated HSS drills, along with the spade bit. Anyone have any thought on what speeds and feeds they would recommend for this .312 thick piece of 6061-T6 running in a Haas VF-4, "no Hass bashing please" % O4940 (4-27-06) (1:30 CYCLE TIME) (LOAD TIME: 45 SEC.) (RATE: 25 PCS/HR) (X-STOP ON RIGHT) T1 M06 (#7 OSG GOLD DRILL) G00 G90 G59 X-0.813 Y-3.563 S1900 M03 G43 H01 Z0.1 M08 G73 Z-0.45 F13.3 Q0.1 R0.1 X-1.26 Y-0.943 X-4. Y-0.943 X-4. Y-3.683 G00 G80 Z0.5 M09 T2 M06 (1/4-20 ALUMINUM BOTTOM TAP) G00 G90 G59 X-0.813 Y-3.563 S400 G43 H02 Z0.1 M0X-4. Y-0.943 X-4. Y-3.683 G00 G80 Z0.5 M09 T3 M06 (17/64 OSG GOLD DRILL) (.266 DIA. HOLES) G00 G90 G59 X-0.313 Y-0.313 S2600 M03 G43 H03 Z0.1 M08 G73 Z-0.5 F13. Q0.1 R0.1 X-0.313 Y-4.313 X-4.313 Y-4.313 X-4.313 Y-0.313 G00 G80 Z3. M09 T4 M06 (82 DEGREE OTM C-SINK) (.507 DIA. x 82 DEGREE) G00 G90 G59 X-0.313 Y-0.313 S3000 M03 G43 H04 Z0.1 M08 G73 Z-0.203 F6. Q0.05 R0.1 X-0.313 Y-4.313 X-4.313 Y-4.313 X-4.313 Y-0.313 G00 G80 Z3. M09 T5 M06 (31/32 SPADE DRILL) (.969 DIA. HOLE) G00 G90 G59 X-2.313 Y-2.313 S780 M03 G43 H05 Z0.1 M08 G73 Z-0.65 F5.5 Q0.1 R0.1 G00 G80 Z3. M09 T6 M06 (5/8 SGS Z-CARB ENDMILL) G00 G90 G59 X-2.313 Y-2.313 S1600 M03 G43 H06 Z-0.219 M08 G13 I0.557 Z-0.219 F10. D06 G00 G80 Z3. M09 T7 M06 (1.125-1.1258 KAISER BORE) G00 G90 G59 X-2.313 Y-2.313 S2400 M03 G43 H07 Z0.1 M08 .219 F7. R0 G85 Z-0.1 G00 G80 Z3. M09 Y6.8 8 G84 Z-0.6 F20. R0.1 X-1.26 Y-0.943 M30 %

I got that in an email from MasterCam yesterday. Looks like our jobs can now be outsourced to first graders. LOL

Doug Did you check out Partmaker? I would like to know what are the pros/cons of the two. We have Partmaker but I never researched anything else. It was basicly "We bought this new software, can you go to Phily in 4 weeks for trainig"

Any one have the web site for Technigrips??? Did a MSN and Google search and came up with nothing so far. Thanks

I am using my Partmaker software for that machine, so I need to find out how to do it on that software. Sent Tec Support an email this morning and they have not got back to me yet. At least I have the setup guy convinced that the R are not as accurate as the I & J. He looked at me like I was crazy when I told him to try an I.

I have been trying to get the stupid radius on the corner of a groove to cut properly all morning. The radius on the one side was coming out right at a R.01. But the other side was cutting more of a small 30 deg chamfer instead of the radius. I finally remembered reading something about the R values not being as accurate as the IJK values. I changed the one R.015 to a I-.015 and the radius came out perfect. Has anyone else seen a difference like this before when using the R on a G2 or G3 move?? This happened on a Tsugami machine with a Fanuc controller. N8 (FRONT GROOVE) G0 X0.9725 Z0.8335 G1 X0.8725 G2 X0.8425 Z0.8485 R0.015 G1 X0.774 Z0.8603 Z0.8653 G0 X0.9725 Z0.8652 Z0.897 G1 X0.8725 G3 X0.8425 Z0.882 I-.015 (PUT THE I in this line) G1 X0.774 Z0.8702 Z0.8652 G0 X0.9725 G0 X2.28 T0 M1

I did a search on the Fastems cell that we are getting in and it looks like a few people have used them before. Those post were many years old so I thought I'd see if anyone else out there have used them. We will be putting 2 cells together to hold a total of 20 pallets with 2 Okuma MA-600 (630 X 630) attached to it. What are your thouhgts on them if you have used them? This cell will be the first of its kind for our shop. Any advice on how to manage it would be great, tool managment, cell control use, part ordering, offset managment, program storing, ect...... Wanting to get as much knowledge on it before it comes it. Thanks http://www.fastems.com/images/ToWeb/Media/...PC_2008_ENG.pdf

I dont know if I could handle all them Mountains down there. Its very flat here in Northern Ohio

I dont think they would allow fixturing holes, since this part is the lid for some type of pressure cooking pot. Thanks for the the ideas every one, I think we are going to go with the quick and dirty way of putting two dowels in a plate, machining most of it then moving the clamps rotating it and then mahining the rest of it.

Looks like its about 250 EAU on this part.

I used to use cutePDF also. Now I use Solid Works, very handy "feature" thats built in when you save.

I just use the FlowPath software. Does your Flow Water Jet breakdown often. Ours seem to be breaking something every week or so. If it aint the pumps leaking its the whips forming a leak. I think its the biggest money pit I have ever seen.

nope, no thru threaded holes, just a chanfer and flat is the only features on the part

if my part stayed clamped to my top plate, I would still not be able to get the the cutter in that spot to mill the chamfer. I'll probally have to just spin the part by hand, and reclamp it to the plate. Looked at the magnetic clamping and they looked too expensive for this part.

Wanted to see if anyone has any ideas on the best way to fixture up a part. Part is 36in in diameter 3/8 plate. Gets a 3/8 x 45 chamfer around the whole OD, and a 7in flat milled on the OD. Another problem is that our biggest machine has only 32" on travel, so we will have to turn the part 90 to finish the chamfer. Has anyone has an luck with magnetic clamps or some kind of vacuum plate? If so what vendor do you use? Thanks for any input.

Trying to use the tail stock advance and retract instead of putting it in maunaly on an Okuma lathe. My M55 and M00 are outputting before the threading cycle???? I have them set to put them "after" in the canned text window. Any sugestions on what I could be doing wrong, or does my post need changed?? I want it to go after the home position move. Thanks in advance Mike NAT3 ( TOOL - 3 OFFSET - 3 ) ( LTHREAD 18TPI INSERT - 18 TPI ) N100 G50 S3200 N101 G0 G97 G95 X37. Z7. T030303 S750 M03 M42 N102 G95 M8 N103 M56 N104 G0 X.5125 Z.1109 N105 M55M00 N106 G71 X.2524 Z-2. H.0601 I0. D.0116 B29 U0. Q1 M32 M73 F.05556 N107 G0 X37. Z7. M9 M5 N108 M01