Don't take this the wrong way BlackOnyx but your post almost sounds like an ad. Who is your employer anyway?

You could always do this by doing a file save as and saving all of them as an STL in the same file.

So what are you saving your solids as when you do this? STL? Do you now not have to save them as STL? That is what I have been doing since at least X2, you can save multiple solis as an STL in the same file and they all come in to verify. Be advised the more stuff you bring to verify the slower it goes.

Well, My favorite would be my 1920x1080P Sony projector at 110".

It "seems" like it is getting worse with every X release. When I first started out on XMR2 I could routinely save .stl files up to about 50 megs. Now with X4 it seems anything over about 10 megs is hit or miss. Curious.

Yeah I was afraid of that. #&*@)#$French???? Well I guess I can stil make use of the 2D Volumill with the web app. Thanks,

Thanks for the post Glenn, Welcome to the forum. By the way, any chance you guys might be able to get a package up and running in CATIA V5? I would love to see that.

I think if they use engagement angle that would trigger an immediate lawsuit from Surfcam. It will be interesting to see how that lawsuit linked to above plays out. It is too bad Surfcam has such a tight lock on that because it is awesome in hard metals.

Holy crap! That is probably why CNC is not getting too close to Truemill.

Frank, check out the directions tab on the parameters page if I remember. I think there is a pulldown in there where you can do vectors or even pick a point.

Neurosis, Yeah Surfcam does do that. That have a patent on the truemill engine also. The Volumill toolpath was developed by some of the same guys that did truemill for Surfcam. The toolpaths are very very similar. I am not sure how much closer to the same they could be without triggering a lawsuit. CNC may be thinking the same thing. I have run alot of 15-5 with truemill and it is awesome. So far I have only used the dynamic mill on aluminum and I haven't gotten to see it run as of yet.

I had a chance the other day to play around with three different toolpaths with the same closed single chain geometry and the results from all three were very similar. I tried Surfcams Truemill, X4's dynamic mill and the free trial version of Volumill. They all produced a good toolpath but the Surfcam still looked a little better and more consistent. I would still have to give the slight advantage to Surfcam because of the different ways you can chain the geometry. You can chain a single closed chain as partially either part geometry or Material(stock). I might have some spare time Thursday or Friday, if I do I will post pictures of the backplotted toolpaths.

Twin Dell 23" 1920X1080 each. 1280X800 on laptop.

Yes, I think that is standard. It would be nice to be able to turn that function off. I could also see times when it would be nice to have. uhh yeah that is nice! Thanks CNC.

quote: good night guys... it was a long annoying day am sooooo expecting to dream about this even tonight.. Ahhh, the life of a programmer all right there in that quote. In reality I was told iscar feedrate specs on their solid carbide endmills are based on a 20 min. tool life. So if you are beating that you are in the ball park, especially if you are cut ss at high speeds. Tell your boss to look at the amount of material removed in that twenty minutes, of course you could slow it down and get the tool to last longer but I would bet the amount of material removed would be similar. So you might has well run fast!

Wow, beats me then.

Murray, Make sure in the files of type option is set to .STL.

Hey Bruce, You might check your config file and see which directory your machine/control defs are coming from. Maybe it is pointing to the X4 directory somehow? Sorry that is all I can think of.

Sent g, Thanks.

I can't get my custom tool to work in X4. As far as I can tell it is drawn correctly and I have tried it on a blank level and pointing to a seperate file. Anyone want to have a look at the file? I can get on the FTP but I can E-mail it. Thanks Kevin C.

I sent it through the E-mail link in your profile. Is that up to date? Basically I was wanting to know the specs of your home comp. I might see about my brother building one for me. Thanks, Kevin C.

Hey Bogus, I sent you a PM.

Matt or anyone, Do you know if it is possibel to change the A axis to a B-axis on a Haas HS1? Thanks

gcode, Does it limit the tool engagement angle also?