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Newbeeee™

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  1. As JP said, Right click all the way - even have flyouts if you need it (I never did but Crazy does). Next the QAT across the top. Nearly, as important (is it larger icons now post 2020?) The round buttons on the right of the screen were suitably dispensed with. And a few hot keys for GView, Line, etc but can't remember all of them now. I had wished there were WAAAAYYYY more customisable hotkeys - AKA autocad programmable PGP file - but that was being looked at as a "good idea" back in the days of X7. It's probably a lonnnngggg meeting....
  2. When I bought the lathes with Shopturn (this was 810D), I had looked at Fanuc Manual guide and laughed. And also wasn't "that" impressed by Mazatrol (on an Integrex i200). The Siemens was awesome, and latterly fully endorsed by the late Tim M. I never looked at the Okuma though - didn't know anyone in the UK with one but was also far too spendy for my short arms
  3. I'd absolutely LOVE a 2002 Turbo to smoke around in. But only on weekends....not a day-to-day. Same for machines. Horses for courses - depends upon what work you're doing, and whether you have a constant steady product. If you have high turnover having to compete in the big wide world as a job shop, you need the flexibility of all the latest tools, machinery, and processes. Otherwise, you're not competitive....
  4. Programmed by MasterCimaGibbs, post output using Postability, and simulated using IcamiCut verification. One. Stop. Shop. Just think how fast and efficient, a fully customisable hotkey driven interface would be....
  5. But chalk and cheese.... you're talking macros and 'grammin at the control. The work that you are doing, is not the work that a lot of the other guys are doing. Because you need CAE tools to efficiently 'gram, verify, and inspect a part when all you have is a customer supplied multi-surface model, or with no print, or a very basic print just detailing part number, material and finishes.... And I say efficiently, because yes the newer controls can import a step model, but while you're messing with it, 10bucks says the machine isn't running....
  6. That was a heavily modified machine....I had a fab company next door and I had a powder coater as a supplier. So one Sunday morning armed with cardboard and masking tape, I removed/scrapped all the original guarding and made cardboard templates. The front plastic guards had a couple of pins sticking out the bottom so I could lift them out the way and they ran in a channel so I could slide left to right. Worked well. Another Sunday gone though.... Top tip for the cardboard guarding is to first coat it with parcel tape - keeps it waterproof for a surprisingly long time....
  7. All was well - but I had to play to get to grips with the settings. And confidence....as Bus partner was still of the belief that you get the largest cutter you can and plough it through the part shaking the machine to pieces and sod consumable cost and part distortion But....it was faster than I thought - F2250.00000000000000HHHHH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PZHd73Ovis
  8. I have I nice vid of X4 dynamic pocketing a big ally block on a Prototrak 2axis SMX1500 mill running flat out at 4k rpm and 2000mm/min feedrate. But this was 2009/2010 and I am soooo last Wednesday....
  9. Dang - nice burn for the UKerrrrs! Granted I had to leave, but I'd like to think I could, possibly, return, IF i wanted to....
  10. IF you're connected to the interwebz, try rolling back any updates. Then if this works, unplug from the interwebz and NEVER plug it back in....
  11. I mean, well, if only, by now, there was, a graphical toolpath editor....
  12. Not really. Have you a sample file to prove this?
  13. Geeee g....your guys must luuuurve you....
  14. If you change your path to flowline and direction to this, you will save much time and boss will be velly velly appy
  15. I distinctly remember Incog saying you were She/Her....
  16. That's a few years ago now G. His daughter must truly be an expert by now, and I guess nearly left school
  17. I did have a play years ago after watching Derek Goodwin's weekend dive into setting FBM up. I was doing a lot of prototypes for one customer who was absolutely useless - and I wanted the 1xclick to just be able to make the part so when the design finally "worked", it could be properly 'grammed. But as always, time and other things beat me.... I just looked at youtube and there's a IHS "deep dive" that maybe worth watching, as that is a year old so would be way more current than Dereck's. BUT.... perhaps have a talk with Pete @ Theebyte - he writes custom solutions and for the right application, truly is 1xclick. [email protected]
  18. I had a couple of Feeler drill/tap machines with F control and 60metre/min rapids. I had to always rapid retract clear of the part because if rapid down in the part, close features would get clipped at 100% rapids. The ACC/DEC was so fast, the path was not "that" close (servo/open following error). There was no parameter to close this down. High/max feed within/close to the part is okay but not always as fast as 10metres/min.... Whatever happens, NO ONE mention his name 3x times....
  19. But roughing is "usually" the fast part....it's the last 20ish% finishing and the small tools needed, and any surfacing/ramping faces, and the surface finish requirements, and the feature tolerances etc, which can take the time and catch one out.... :shrug:
  20. Ok that's cool, you're already doing it. Can't beat internals (no snickering at the back! )
  21. "She gunna ring like a church bell DingDingDingDingDing"....
  22. Just talking out loud....How big is your control memory Jake? Because if you can, you can't beat running internal sub progs - ones that stay in the 1x main program. This way no one forgets to save the subs at the end of the job run, because they're within the prog.... FWIW, after going round in circles with this back in the day, we decided to just use 0001 for 1st sub call and 0002 for second etc. Because the subs are saved in the folder with the main prog, and the sub header also stated "SUB FOR PROG NO XXXX", so there was never any issue with potential mixup. Obviously later controls and 8 digit prog numbers would allow better file numbering (ie all subs to start 5xxxx for example)

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