Thanks for the info. on the cutter. How about cutting speed and feed guys ??? it seems every body enjoy the holiday alittle early this year.

Good morning guys, I have a job coming and it needs 2 x 1/2-13 x 1.0 dp, 4 x 3/8-16 x .75 dp thread. I have only ONE chance to get it right. My first choice is thread mill it, so i am going to need alot of help about tool and cutting parameter. What is the best tool for 304 SST? What is the size hole, cutting speed and feed? How many rough pass and finish pass should i take.....? Thanks in advance.

Well, just please becareful with this guys. You should double check all of dirty operations after you regenerate it because your 1/2 end mill may become a drill or 1/4 end mill or something esle now. HTH

absolute for 3 , 4 axis and Incremental for 5 axis. It is just easier for me to move thing around.

Here is my lay out for all my guys in the shop. 1: Solid 2: Wire frame . . 100: Material for verify . . 1000: Phase 1 1001: Phase 1 set up notes 1002: Phase 1 Geo add on . . 2000: Phase 2 2001: Phase 2 set up notes 2003: Phase 2 Geo add on . . 3000: Phase 3 . . 8000: Tooling . . 9000:Fixture to vericut . . I try not to use level from 1 to 100 alot because it my mess up if you want to import 3D model from another cad system such as autocad.... Just my 2 cent.

Program Files\mcamx5\common\Fonts

"Click on the holders with right click ,select new holder and do not select anything" It worked!!! Thanks for the tip.

actually not guys. I used the holder from mastercam library holder (HSK1000A.Holders). after i deleted it, it keep coming back.

Never mind guys. I figured it out. Thanks and have a nice weekend.

Any one know how??

How about this "Spring Loaded Engraving Tool"? link: http://www.2linc.com/engraving.htm

When create a tool, i asigned a holder with it. Could somebody please show me how to delete the holder and keep the tool? Thanks in advance.

"I don't trust the transform stuff at all, without vericut I wouldn't use it" Same here.

Yes, Just put vises and Geo on different layers. HTH

Good morning BrainP. You may want to do a search on this. I have my Haas post done a while a go thru. this forum. HTH

Thanks for a good advice! Happy Friday.

No i did not use canned text. Find this section in your post and add it on. -------------------------------------------------------- pdrlcst$ #Custom drill cycles 8 - 19 (user option) #Use this postblock to customize drilling cycles 8 - 19 pdrlcommonb . . . ------------------------------------------------------------ Then change text in drill drop down cycle -------------------------------------------------------------- [drill cycle 18] 1. "Dowel Pin Guide Stop" 2. "" 3. "" 4. "" 5. "" 6. "" 7. "" 8. "" 9. "" 10. "" 11. "" ------------------------------------------------------------------ After change text, you should re-start your mastercam and This cycle should appear on your drill drop down list. "how do I control my z depth with this" You should use it like a regular drill toolpath. Draw a point on the screen and pick it for XY location, then enter Z depth in drill parameter page. that is all HTH

Thank you Sir! I am OK for now. This forum is WONDERFUL.

Thank you very much. One down, one more to go. This is for my mazak machine: ----------------------------------------- N48 (6MM PROBE) G0 G17 G40 G80 G90 T48 G0 G28 G91 Z0 G90 M06 (MAX - Z3.) (MIN - Z-1.) G00 G17 G90 G54 X-1.9909 Y2.2425 G43 H48 Z3. T9 <-------------------------I want to remove this line G94 G65 P9810 X-1.9909 Y2.2425 F120. G65 P9810 Z.25 G65 P9814 D4. Z-1. S101.(PROBE BOSS/BORE SET ZERO) G65 P9810 Z.25 M05 G0 G91 G28 Z0. M01 (*) -------------------------------------------------- I Would like to take out the line with "G43" Thanks in advance

Good morning all, I am working on my custom drill section for probing routine. Here is what i got so far: --------------------------------------- N48 (6MM PROBE) G0 G17 G40 G80 G90 T48 G0 G28 G91 Z0 G90 M06 (MAX - Z3.) (MIN - Z-.25) G00 G17 G90 G54 X.1973 Y-.6581 S0 M05 <-------- need to take out spindle and M5 of this line G43 H48 Z3. G94 G65 P9832 G65 P9810 X.1973 Y-.6581 F120. G65 P9810 Z-.25 G65 P9814 D4. S1. (PROBE BOSS/BORE SET ZERO) G65 P9810 Z.1 G65 P9833 M05 G0 G91 G28 Z0. G90 G0 G90 G53 X-60. G91 G28 Y0 G90 (*) -------------------------------------------------- My probe is alway #48 in all machines and I am using MPmaster for base. I would like to take out the spindle and M5. Could somebody please help me with this? I know that i have to touch "ptlchg_com and ptlchg0$" section but it is way over my head right now. Thanks in advance

I actually just added it on my post. Code ----------------------------------------------------- if drillcyc$ = 18,#DOWEL PIN GUIDE STOP [ "G01", pxout, pyout, pfzout, pcout, "F120.", e$ "M00", "(PUSH PART AGAINST STOP)", e$ ] ------------------------------------------------------ This is what i got: N124 ( 1/2 DOWEL PIN) G0 G17 G40 G80 G90 T124 G0 G28 G91 Z0 G90 M06 (MAX - Z3.) (MIN - Z-1.) G00 G17 G90 G54 X0. Y0. S0 M05 G43 H124 Z3. T119 G94 G01 Z-1. F120. M00 (PUSH PART AGAINST STOP) M05 G0 G91 G28 Z0. M01 (*)

Or you can try this and you are good to go from now on. Custom one "special drill cycle" for it. Code ----------------------------- if drillcyc$ = 11, [ z$ = refht_a pxout, pyout, z$, "F120.", e$ pfzout, "(PUSH PART AGAINST STOP)", e$ z$ = initht$ *z$, e$ ] -------------------------------- Never try this but it should work. HTH

Thanks.

Thanks for the info.