Mastercam owns it now. I don't know anyone who uses it, but I'm sure your dealer would give you a trial license if you asked.

No, but ProDrill was originally a 3rd party addon produced by MoldPlus I guess Mastercam bought Prodrill from MoldPlus at some point??? Let's take a trip in the way back machine. MoldPlus Prodrill for X2-MR2

I've seen this alarm under 2 circumstances when using containment boundaries in ModuleWorks toolpaths 1. The chain I've defined is not closed 2. the chain I've defined is not in the machining plane

Wow, that post was 19 years ago! To answer your question, No I haven't bought We do have a copy of the MoldPlus Catia translator for Mastercam and it's excellent!

Blend works well too. Draw a circle on the big OD of the c'sink and a point in the center. Select the conical surface as your drive surface. Then chain the circle followed by the point Use dept limits to control where it starts and finishes

there is a slider on the bottom left side of the Verify window drag it all the way to the right

I've put a bunch of my most commonly used functions on the QA (Quick Access) bar. It's very easy to add or remove functions from the QA bar so I'll add or remove them as my current project requires.

I know several small shops that do just fine without CAM. One shop has a bunch of bar feed Okumas. If you know anything about Okuma lathes, you'll know their canned roughing/finishing cycles are world class. They got along fine programming at the control and the owner is doing very well for himself. Occasionally they would get a part that had geometry issues the Okuma control couldn't solve. He'd give me a call, I'd whip out a finish toolpath and a bill for a 1/2 hour minimum of $45. No doubt it could have all been done better with Mastercam or some other CAM software but he didn't want to invest the $$ to buy it or the time to learn it. Eventually, he hired a guy with a cracked copy of AutoCad and they started using that to solve math the Okuma control couldn't handle. That was one more customer gone.

I have used that wizard for years. Did Kennametal buy Carmex???

I think I have it fixed now

Weird ... does that link work? It keeps kicking me back to your original post????

This Alberti head might work https://www.albertiumberto.com/en/products/t90cn-15/ I requested a download of the catalogue page and they sent it to me but our A/V killed it

When I was a kid in Saudi Arabia, people would cut your throat for Double Bubble... even though it had been in transits so long it was rock hard. When I got to the states and bought some fresh chewing gum, I thought something was wrong with it cause it was soft.

and Double Bubble chewing gum to seal those pesky leaks

Love the video, especially the wrench on the right side of the machine so you can help pull the poor thing around the corners

and a funeral and memorial service for the Protrack shortly thereafter.

Thanks for the Novo tip I didn't know Kennametal had a feeds and speeds app I'll be signing up for that!

This is the tool holder I'd be using, an HSK125 PG32 Secure Grip RegoFix contacted me last year and asked if I'd like to test the new PG40 they are coming out with. I said sure but have heard nothing since. That should be a stout tool holder!! The problem is, you'd have to buy a new machine to put them together and that is some big money. I've included a Helical endmill and feeds and speed recommendation as well Those are default numbers with no adjustment on my part. They seem crazy fast to me 550283250.pdf 59384-HEV-M-61000-R.060.pdf

Thanks !!! That is good to know. I hadn't thought of that. My managers have this project scheduled to run on a horizontal boring mill old school plunge mill roughing or maybe rough, index, rough etc etc. I know for sure that it is not capable of running a B axis dynamic roughing path My test file posted at 21meg... for one of two slots LOL!!! I put this sample file together to demonstrate what modern toolpaths and a state of the art Okuma 5X HMB can do. I'm still working on my demo and sales pitch. What I really need are realistic feeds, speeds and stepovers DOC is 2.25, Material is Ti ( don't know full specs yet) endmill is a 6 or 7 flute Ø1" bull /.06r Tool holder is an HSK125 RegoFix Secure Grip... or maybe a heavy duty hydraulic chuck. Up to 500 or 1000 psi though coolant is available. I've tried HMS Advisor and Helical for feeds and speeds. HSM seems realistic but a little slow,, Helical at even half recommended feeds and speeds is stupid fast.

Have you tried an uninstall/reinstall, your hasp drivers may have gotten corrupted somehow.

As far as I know, the only legal way to acquire and old hasp is to buy a business that owns the license. Of course 2 people doing a deal on a 10 year old hasp could care less what CNC Software thinks as there is no support for a 10 year old license, no matter who owns it.

There is also NCSimul which used to be a decent reasonably priced product from France (?) They got eaten by Hexagon a few years back so I suspect it is no longer reasonably priced. also, Predator Virtual CNC I used to own a seat of this, in fact I still have the dongle laying around somewhere. Back in the day it cost $1K per axis. It was capable software though now where near up to Vericut standards. It got me through some very tough jobs, but I eventually gave up on it because there was zero support.

I've kept my license current for 26 years now. If you're current, going from a dead hasp to a software license is a small fee. If you're not current, you will have to get current which will cost a lot of $$$ If you are more than 3 releases behind, it will probably be cheaper to buy a new seat than renew an old expired one.

I'm still running a USB hasp. When I bought V7 it came with a white hasp that plugged into a printer port. I don't remember when I had to swap it out for a USB hasp. I'm thinking X or X2. It still works and CNC still supports it, but should it break or get lost, it will be replaced with a software license.

Bird2010 is correct My original floor surface was a trimmed surface extracted from the solid model I created a new surface that was a full 360° lofted surface I still have no control over where the tool part starts, but it's starting at a more efficient location.