4 hours ago, Zadorozhnii said:

Hello everyone, maybe someone can share a postprocessor for Haas st20y ?

[email protected]

Thank you in advance

 

Licensed Mastercam users can download a very good one from the Tech Exchange at Mastercam.com

1 hour ago, Minus 40 said:

We've tried converting as Parasolid

when saving the file from Mastercam 

select Save As 

then select file type X_T or X_B ( it doesn;t matter which)

then select Options and chose 30 or 31 and click OK

That file will open in SW2021

On 4/17/2024 at 7:57 AM, rgrin said:

Too true. Another thing is availability. You could be purchasing the most ballin machine for your part, but if it's a 10 month factory build....

True, We were looking at a monster Mitsui Seiki 5X trunnion machine (HU100-5XL) when I was referred to an Okuma MU100H by a couple of guys on this forum.

The Mitsui Seiki was an 18-24 month build. The Okuma was on the show room floor in North Carolina. As our need was yesterday, that pretty much sealed the deal.

It was a fortunate thing too, as the Okuma with it's OSP200 control and HSK125 spindle turned out to be a far better solution for the parts we are running on it.

I moved to the Main forum where it will get more eyeballs.

I have no experience with Mori/DMG mills though I've heard stories about reliability.

We have a 2008 Mori NT6000 5X lathe and the service has been good, though the wait for an available

service tech has been lengthy in some cases.

Personally, I'm an Okuma guy.

We bought an Okuma MU1000H  in 2013 and have run it hard 24 hours a day 6 days a week for a decade.

It has been such a good machine we bought a 2nd one in 2023.

With a 170 station tool magazine and a 2 station pallet setup they are consistently the most

productive machines in the plant.  A 6 station pallet changer is available for these, but that 

would take up too much space for us. We struggled to find room for the 2nd machine.

They build vertical trunnion machines as well from 4000mm tables to 8000mm.

Okuma 5 axis machines

2 minutes ago, riverhunter said:

 

Had Haas out the first time it made that noise.  the reply was a perfect HAAS response "oh, its fine, it will go away with a software update" that sound never went away

even after the spindle caught fire??? 

25 minutes ago, riverhunter said:

it made the worst grinding sound you ever heard. 

That's perfectly normal  LOL

serious though, back in the day I was part owner of a small shop

We had 2 Hass VF1's with 5C collet indexers.. 

We made boatloads of money with those 2 machines.

As always when you need help, ask the experts.

Thanks guys!!!

I'm using the new automatic on a vane I'm doing as it looks really good in MC Backplot , Postability Machine Sim and Vericut

It will be several weeks before it gets a real world test on our Okuma MU-1000H.

I'll report back then.

Thank you !!!

"latest release of MW documentation"  is this something  that is available the masses??

Asking questions on the Mastercam forum is a lot like shouting at clouds, so I thought I'd try here.

The MC2025 PB3 Swarf Toolpath/Advanced Control now has Advanced and Advanced (Legacy)

Obviously there  is something different about the new Advanced or they would not have let Advanced (Legacy) behind.

Does anyone know what the difference is?

I'm doing a new project and getting  excellent results from the Swarf toolpath.

but I really can't detect any difference between Advanced and Advanced (Legacy)

On 4/14/2024 at 5:38 PM, Chesnel Henry said:

I am having the same issue. This is really frustrating. I hope these people build a more intuitive software 

 The error 55 code says : Can not determine swung geometry.

with our sharing a file, it is unlikely anyone can help you.

On 4/13/2024 at 6:54 PM, Zoffen said:

Seems like its in spec. No problem here...

Harsh, but true

42 minutes ago, #Rekd™ said:

I think it is wet carboard.....  

wet cardboard is the deluxe upgrade

6 minutes ago, cruzila said:

I ran an extended Z VF-8 on a critical boring part in the winter. I did tests on the casting temps, coolant tank temps, shop temps. The biggest deviation I saw was .002 when we turned off the heater at night.

Yes, but the duct tape, bailing wire and chewing gum holding those UMC-750's together is highly susceptible to thermal expansion and compression. 

I saved the three curves out as an IGES file and imported them into SpaceClaim.

The SpaceClaim command Blend produced a surface that looked exactly like what we ae looking for.

Then I IGES'd the results back into Mastercam and the beautiful curved surface came into Mastercam looking like a flat surface.

However, if I launch the command Analyze Dynamic and inspect the "flat" surface, the arrow moves in a curved pattern.

I believe this is a Mastercam graphics issue.  I think the surface is actually correct but the graphics tolerance setting I'm using

prevent it from being correctly displayed.

If I had more time, I'd trying applying a scallop toolpath to the surface and see what the posted code looked like.

1 hour ago, Azoth said:

If I discover a bug at work, I will be sure to bring it to the attention of adults

Send it to [email protected]

1 hour ago, Azoth said:

emastercam is the merely top result on google

there is a reason for that.

1 hour ago, Azoth said:

I should direct future business through proper channels.

You can find that here

You can browse most of it without an account.

If you want to access the forum, you'll need to create an account from a PC with access to a legitimate Mastercam license.

and at this point I am bringing this thread to it's well deserved end.

No experience with them

Thier website is current and says

"Designed, Engineered and Assembled in the USA"

I suspect they are manufactured in China and shipped to the US for final assembly

... and a Made in the USA sticker.

They list a surprising variety of machines on their website.

If you Google Map their address

70 Jon Barrett Road | Patterson, New York | 12563

and check the satellite view you'll

see they share a building with a woodworking shop and there are about a half dozen  cars in the parking lot.

Personally, I'd steer clear. 

We had a Fanuc controlled VTL that was very touchy about arcs

A Fanuc service tech came out and adjusted some parameters that controled the tolerance 

of arc endpoints and radiuses. That solved the problem

19 hours ago, Azoth said:

I didn't post details on the bug because the case was closed and I'm not sure it effects the industrial version...

I don't know what version they started doing this, but with MC2024 the industrial and educational version are the same download.

Whether it runs as an industrial seat or educational is controlled by the license you are using... so if you are seeing a bug  in educational,

it should be there in the industrial version.

Azoth

May I respectfully suggest that when you get to work tomorrow, you upload an industrial

copy of this toolpath. Until you have done that, there is no way to know if this is a bug.

If it's a bug it can be submitted to QC.

17 hours ago, crazy^millman said:

Same mistake I made. Verisurf free tools not Vericut.

My brain was thinking Verisurf, but my fingers typed Vericut 

1 hour ago, riverhunter said:

Wasn't that about the same time mastecam stopped creating its own tool paths

The ModuleWorks 5X toolpaths are licensed from ModuleWorks in Germany.

Everything else is created and maintained by CNC Software.

That includes all the old legacy 5x toolpaths, 2 and 3d contouring, pocketing, high speed surfacing,  drilling, 2 and 3D dynamic roughing and finishing and all lathe toolpaths.

To Mastercam's credit, the toolpath filters are much better than they used to be.

It used to be a little scary using the filter because you never knew when a filtered toolpath was going to get a glitch and blast through a wall

or an arc was going to wipe out a part with a 358° move  instead of the desired 2° arc.

Filtering used be scary, I worked with people who would not use filtering under any circumstances... even if they had to break a file into multiple programs to get it in the machine.

Filtering is much more reliable and safer than it used to be.

It has been years since a filtered toolpath bit me.

This thread made me think of this very useful  old Camistructor video.

I always forget these toolpaths are available.

Bitdefender Endpoint Security updates their threat definitions several times a day.

I was able to install with no issues at home on a machine the uses the personal version of Bitdefender.

I did not hear back from QC, but I tried the install again at work this morning and it ran fine.

I guess BD got things straightened out.

On 4/3/2024 at 6:26 AM, Newbeeee™ said:

Every day goes by, is a day too long. Both DMG and your reseller need holding to account....

True dat..

If it doesn't work, they shouldn't be selling it,,,, and they sure as hell shouldn't be calling it "turnkey"