Rich, that is exactly what I was looking for... Thank you! -Dan

Good Morning, Our QC department sent me an IGES file and when I open it in Mastercam, it defaults to metric. How do I switch the file back to English units? Thank you, Dan

Mike, Look in the parameter manual in the back cabinet door on that machine - should be a blue binder with the parameter backup disk and all the factory parameter / calibration info. Look in the back and see if you can find reference to the keep relay that controls where the turret indexes. I looked in the book for our 2600Y and couldn't find anything. If you cannot find it in your book, I have a couple of really good contacts at Doosan's home office in Jersey and they can help you out. If you need their info, email me at [email protected] -Dan

Hey Mike, What kind of machine is it?

Hockey Guy - if you call Doosan over in Jersey and tell them what you are up to I'll bet they can send you what you need...

Hey Chris, Looking for mostly straight spline stuff on the gears. Gleason does some really nice work, I have used them in the past. I appreciate any help you can give! -Dan

I appreciate all the leads, keep them coming!

Not exactly a Mastercam question - but we are looking for a good reliable company to do Jig / Centerless / Throughfeed grinding. They don't necessarily have to be in the NC / SC area. We have a need for shops that can do Gear Hobbing as well... Anybody hear know of any good reliable quality conscious shops looking for work? These are engine and chassis parts for racecars, so nothing huge as far as size goes. And nothing in huge quantities, either... 50 - 100 piece orders. Thanks in advance! -Dan

Thank You, Dave!

Exactly what I was looking for... I appreciate the help! Thank You! -Dan

There is a door interlock "keep relay" that you can toggle on or off by adjusting a parameter, You should be able to find it in your electrical diagram or ladder for the machine... The machinery dealers and Fanuc are reluctant to tell you about it because it overrides the interlock safety feature of the door... Went through this with a couple of machines here...

I'm writing a macro and when its all done, I need to reset a string of variables back to zero... I.E. #704 - #720=0 Is there a quick and easy way to do this without writing #704=0, #705=0, #706=0... at the end of my program??? Fanuc 18i-MB control Thanks, -Macro B Rookie

Thanks Stephen, but it looks like they just make stuff with zinc? No chromate coating as far as I can tell... I appreciate it, though!

We are looking for a good, reliable vendor to do some zinc chromate conversion coating for us. The place we use now is less than consistent in the quality of product they provide. We generally send quantities of less than 100 pieces out at a time, so this isn't a huge volume of parts by any means. Any contacts are greatly appreciated!!! Thank you! -Dan

The geometry you are chaining might be a spline - that will output point to point moves sometimes... Analyze entity properties to find out - and if it is, try converting it to an arc se eif it helps...

Chris, I was having the same issues but the Hotfix worked perfectly... Thank You! -Dan

Chris, Does it have a number with that alarm or just the alarm message?

What I did was basically right out of the machine tool manufacturer's manual... I just put it in a spread sheet so it would be easy to print out or keep record of what got done when. You can keep track of it on the computer or hang it inside the machine cabinet door and have the guys check it off as they do stuff... The hardest part of the whole deal is scheduling down time... So we pick 4 or 5 things to PM on the machine each time and over the course of a couple of months, it all gets done, just not all at once... then if we have a machine sitting - which luckily, is rare, we jump on it and knock out some more maintenance... kind of an ongoing never ending deal, but it sure beats having a dead machine because we didn't do anything...

Bill, You have mail...

OK... I'm back... Crazy Millman... That's huge... Let me sit here and sort that out... as scary as this sounds... engineering has a formula here that looks like it has some promise... I'm going to try that out here today... I'll keep you all posted... Thanks for the help... -Dan

You guys are awesome... Let me digest some of this... I thought the Renishaw was capable of doing this... We are using Blum stuff here and I'm getting the feeling from the app guy that they can't do it, which seems weird to me... I'll have some time to look this over in the morning... Thank You all... I'll be back...

I am holding a part with a flat top face on a trunion style rotary table on a vertical machining center... I want to hit the top face with a probe in 3 places to establish the orientation of the plane, and I need a macro that will sort out how much turn and how much tilt the rotary table needs to "level" the top face of that part... There has got to be somebody out there doing this... It's on a Fanuc 21i-MB Anybody have any ideas of where I can look? Thanks. -Dan

Thanks for all the help, guys... I appreciate it! -Dan

I hear that, Rob... Good problem to have in this day and age... you going to be through this area heading to any races?

I use to have to change the file extension on my prototrax stuff to .CAM in order for the control to read it off of the disk... never had any problems with the mastercam post... that was an mx3 series though... don't know if that helps or not...