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gcode

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  1. We done this with a couple of old Mitsubishi HMC's that have pallets.

    It works just fine...

    As an added bonus, our maintenance people can build a new cable and rewire the rotary table with their eyes closed because they've done it so many times.

    At least once a year someone doesn't check the cables before calling up a pallet change.

    The rotary table's cables lose that fight every time.

  2. This is from the free Haas 5X Trunion post  "Generic Haas VF-TR_Series 5X Mill.pst" that is available from Mastercam.com

    Your post may have something like this

    You'll need to set "use first wcs" to no$

    There are also work offset settings in the Transform operation that will need to be set properly.

    #Work offsets
    workofs$     : -1    #Initialize work offset
    force_wcs    : yes$  #Force WCS output at every toolchange?
    use_frst_wcs : yes$  #Use only the first WCS read and ignore all others in NCI
    extoffset    : 1     #Extended workoffsets Output Type; 0 outputs G110-G129; 1 outputs G154 P1-P99

  3. Years ago I came in one morning and the entire programming department  was down.

    After a lot of trouble shooting the cause was determined to be a Windows update

    We were all running Dells with  Nvidia Quadro video cards,

    A Windows update had installed Dell video drivers which rendered our machines unusable.

    We uninstalled the Dell drivers and replaced them with official Nvidia drivers and all was good.

    Check your Windows update history and see if Windows has been playing silly games with your video drivers

     

    A fancy new 4K monitor may be the cause too.

    There is an article in the knowledge base at Mastercam.com on how to fix this problem 

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  4. If you are running an the generic 5X post look for this switch

    use_frst_wcs : no$  #Use only the first WCS read and ignore all others in NCI

    If it's set to yes, it will post the first work offset it encounters.

    If it's set to no it will post every work offset it encounters and you must be sure you have them all set correctly

     

  5. These two files came in OK for me in 2024

    For the tool holder I translated it so that the gage line of the holder was at the orign ( Translate to Origin)

    then used Solids/ Trim tp Plane ( Top) to remove the taper 

     

    How are you doing this

    I use the Mill Assembly Designer in the Tool Manager

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  6. 2 hours ago, Aaron Eberhard said:

    how much more efficient it was for him to spend 4+ hours grinding a tool to cut a small feature on the lathe instead of "wasting" $100 to just buy it off the shelf from Micro100.

    well, considering that the owners of many small machine shops are doing well to break even in any given month,

    4 hours of his working for free might have been the better option   LOL

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