LMFAO @necro-help!

James, you have too much time on your hands I gotz me an eyedear though - how about an Off Topic? Will it catch on?

Interesting thread and shows (to me) what a different world from the 3/4axis world the 5ax world is...

Standard windowze interface for the ribbon....top right you have a ? Next to that a ^ Click on it and it will then show v making your ribbon minimal...

This. Akin to a bar strool.

I not sure...(James?)....there were some differences between oiC controls and now the later oiD/F etc going forwards in at least one format. I had 5x rotaries of which there were 3x different motors and configurations, but were all wired the same electrically. I had a Mcode which called a hidden 9000 prog for each individual rotary which specified motor type, motor direction, rapid and max feed etc, and this was in each machine. So the process was (with power off) mount rotary, connect air and power, power machine, MDI M123 (for one of the rotaries), this calls prog number O9004 which runs in the background opening up the PWE, writes the parameters, closes the PWE, and then the control would say power off. So NC off and we'd also power off isolator and wait 30 secs and power all back up and we were good to go. This was all thanks to the power of G10. But for the C (and previous controls) opening line is G10L50 and for the D (and later and 30 series I believe), the opening line is G10L52. Not related to what you're discussing LoL but it gives an example of how cool the G10 command is.

Here's a thread which tells you how to check what options you have on your machine, it also links to other info. https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/cnc-machining/fanuc-hsm-g08-g05-1-settings-171099/ G05 is only better, if you have the options installed. Otherwise it runs the same as G08. Block lookahead is dependent upon the amount set in a parameter (upto the maximum allowable number), G05.1 basic is worth having though - IME it gave 10% cycle reduction per hour on every machine and every job - from slow running steel to high running ally (7 VMCs).

By memory.... System config>Colors>Tools and holders>Mill and router stock. I have mine set to colour 17 translucent - better than the red as that conflicted with the gnome

talking 2020...i mapped the keypad to "G" for current gview, and 'A' for zoom all. Nice timesaver...

Pray tell Pete.

Create surface fill holes?

Having previously worked in a shop like that, which when i first started there bought a 300k (in year 1999) Hitachi twin pallet hori but couldn't afford more than 10 toolholders and only had 2 bare pallets...i vowed when i built my shop have value for money machines and then i could throw 200k at tooling. It is false economy and stupidity to not have tools for the job.

Josh is correct. How's it going Morlin!?

Oh man. I love AE chest offs

I remember only a couple of occasions back in the 9 daysFWIW, but i had to reduce the top of stock value which made it work for me. Only happened on a couple of parts though

It was this system. Peace of cake to use. https://www.dentalcentrebedford.co.uk/cerec.html

Adding to what JP said - 3.5years ago my dentist walked me through the whole process. Xray, then manipulate the tooth on screen, press the magic 'grammin button, and let me see him load and then watch the cut on the machine. Very automated - tooth blank on standard one size peg to load to the one size collet in the machine - and just the one size cutter (no tool change) to cut the tooth. Very impressive and I thought even an 8 year old could do that My mate swears blind by just swarfing it. Or if it's castings - get them out the back of the factory in his top box on his motorbike - remove ALL evidence Then in a few days later when the inquest comes why batches are short - keep straight face and deny all knowledge stating that you made everything you were given

Breathe deep Thad. Let it go bro I expect icons will be reintroduced and a major enhancement and reason for updating in the future

Aaron - that is great news for owners, that the perpetual will stay. Don't follow the industry (AD) - just because they do it, doesn't make it right! Ref the 36 month being a similar cost of a full license - you could offer a variation of this deal where at the end of the 36 months the customer pays you $1 and it's then their perpetual seat. Be a great offer for startups. Disclaimer - that was not my idea, it was Thainz! Stock holders (as in corporate stock market companies) have killed many a great company. All they're interested in is dividend payout. They.Do.Not.Care about the company or customers. Just the money. There's many that have collapsed because of them. The (UK) GEC story is one great example.

This is what i did. Worked a charm if you multi task and have to answer the phone make the tea and clean the toilets. As soon as you sat back down and thought "where was i" you can instantly get back into it.

I clicked here because of massage...

So I read this....and the 'ol grey cells were reminding me of something... My old 810 controls didn't have a HDD - they had a memory/chip PCB. This was denoted PC20. There was an option when I bought them to have a HDD instead (as per the 840 controls) and this would have made it a PC50 "version" (I believe). I had read some thread where people had converted their Siemens to SSD drives and read this regarding HDD:- Had a similar problem with an 840D of mine. It was the mdbbe.ini that didnt load at "area load". I was able to copy over the mdbbe.ini from my factory floppies to the hard drive and that fixed the problem. To do this, I connected the siemens drive to a mac OSX machine with an IDE to USB adapter. (Ive heard you dont want to connect older Siemens drives to windows machines). Fixed the problem. If its the drive starting to fail, you can fix some bad sector problems with ddrescue a free linux program. That also worked for me and fixed some bad files on the original 840D drive. Lastly, looking at the Siemens site - this shows:- https://support.industry.siemens.com/tf//WW/en/posts/hard-disk-copy-use-in-pcu-50-3/190130?page=0&pageSize=10 https://support.industry.siemens.com/tf/ww/en/posts/clone-the-ssd-harddisk-intel-ssdc2bb080g4-of-the-pcu50-3/220128/?page=0&pageSize=10 So it looks like it can be done - and surely in doing this, 99% of problems would go away?

Bob How big is your coolant tank? IME it's the coolant that is predominantly the problem maker.

Oh okay - yes Planes Planes Planes was always the cry for rotations and I always religiously did that - the one TOP WCS for A0 and new C+T for the angles but using the A0 TOP WCS. I realize AMC knows how to use the SW from all his other postings. I guess what I was really querying is was that the correct or an acceptable way to do it - does detting a new WCS for each angle work okay? By memory with my post, it would give funky A outputs if I did 'gram with more than one WCS.

Not to argue or derail, but you said you create a new WCS for each rotation (angle).