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Any one have one they may want to share. If not can someone point me in the right direction. I Use X+ for X7 at my day job and we swear by it. My night job I use MC4SW, I am looking to add z depth and a screen shot to the Mastercam toolist. Is that possible? Thanks
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Cutting exotic materials
balnh replied to Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot's topic in Industrial Forum
Hmm how delightful. -
Sorry lower left of screen shot. Put a number in that field.
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Will it Still plunge if you put a value in skip pockets smaller than? I think a number in there may help you out.
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Actually it's more of a SW question. I'll rephrase, does Can SW add a corner relief fillet to a pocket rather than sketching the cuts. My parts are wierd shaped hexagons and fully defining the cuts is a pain. I was hoping there was a fillet option that I couldn't see.
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Is there a tab that I'm missing for mastercam style geometry creation? To specify I use create-fillet-clearance type daily for jaw pockets fixtures, etc. I'm using mcam4sw works at another job and having that command would really make my life easier.
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Probing Haas Centerline
balnh replied to [email protected]'s topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
At the control you can output all the probing routines, then merge them into existing programs. In the VQC you can use probe block starting from center. Then add some protected moves. I can whip up something in a few if you want. The Renishaw book has a lot of info on this stuff. I would probe the top of the parts though. The center of block routine does that as well. -
We had tool life issues with gummy stuff like kovar, 304, and my personal favorite niobium. We switched out our usual hocut for some new cimtech coolant. We saw immediate tool life and finish improvements. Off the top of my head I can't remember which cimtech stuff I think it's called 610 or something it's fairly new but supposed to shine on gummy crap. It's pricey but worth it
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Thanks for the help
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Ok thanks parts actually get bead blasted then plated. I have a sample part and It looks atrocious. Material is customer supplied, but I'm told it is pure niobium annealed. I have no way of confirming that. Seems soft though. Thanks for the suggestions
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Any one have experience with this stuff? Got some small parts that are about .55 x .24 x .098. I got a 12x12 sheet .125 thick. Small rads and features no holes. I'm assuming it's kind of gummy. SFM,hss, carbide, coated, uncoated?? This project was dumped on my desk with no one in shop having had to cut this stuff. Thanks.
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Accuracy of Renishaw laser tool setter.
balnh replied to balnh's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
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Accuracy of Renishaw laser tool setter.
balnh replied to balnh's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
To be honest I came in today to try and sort the thing out and was told not to. Renishaw was called and the owner wants his money back. I called bull xxxx on the laser being off that much. These tools angles and diameters are all custom ground to super tight tolerances. I think it's a case of an old dog not wanting to learn new tricks. -
Accuracy of Renishaw laser tool setter.
balnh replied to balnh's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
Also tools are theoretically sharp, or as close as it can be. -
Accuracy of Renishaw laser tool setter.
balnh replied to balnh's topic in Machining, Tools, Cutting & Probing
This is exactly what I was thinking. We do ball mill then use these custom ground tools to clean out a sharp corner. -
We have new Renishaw laser tool setter and Probe on a Vertical machine. I am told by the owner that our tooling can not be set accurately and now wants to get his money back. The tooling in question are basically 60 deg chamfer/engraving tools that come to maybe .003 web at tip. Without getting into the application of these tools we have 2 that we blend together in Z. I was told that they are .008-.006 off. Before I take a look at it today it it's still on the machine, what kind of accuracy can I expect on tool length? Thanks
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Had this problem on a couple OM's. did nothing to min arc radius. Changed IJK's to R's and break at quadrant. Reposted and worked fine.
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Morning gents, system tolerance changed on one if the desktops. Ooppps. Overlooked that. Thanks for the help!
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Hmm interesting. The posts/control/machine were made on one desktop then dragged and dropped to the others. Something must have changed.I'm not in the shop at the moment ill post what I find when I get back tomorrow. Thanks for responding guys.
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We did do a side by side comparison. I can understand if x5 to x7 got longer, but when we both post in x7 we get drastically different program lengths
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Ran into a wierd issue/problem. Opened an x5 file and posted a spiral Toolpath was 600k long. regenerated same Toolpath in x7 without changing machine definitions or anything reposted got 1100k. Had a coworker do the same. He initially got 600k like me then after regen he got 750k. Unfortunately I can't share a file. We are running same machine definitions same version of Mcam x5 and x7. Only difference is computers. Any else have similar thing happen.
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True I got two tools ruff and fin I was gonna ruff/semifin then use second tool anyway. I see you are in the granite state. Me as well in southern part
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Thanks for fast reply, that's what I figured. Am i alone thinking that's foolish? Regular groove tool path has all those comp parameters and from what I understand plunge turn is for iscar tools right? Oh well three more clicks is better than standing at machine programming. Thanks
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Hello. I'm not much of a lathe guy. Most lathe programming I do at machine. I got an iscar heli grip for a few upcoming jobs. Part has groove with two walls and fillets. How do u guys normally handle finishing the two walls? Iused plunge turn and saw no option for wear control etc on the finish pass. Do I need to make second tool path for finishing walls with cut comp?Thanks a bunch.
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I think i am missing something. I had to install X2 on new computer. When i check entities in drill toolpath, select an arc, then hit enter it selects the endpoints of arcs rather than centerpoints. Is there a check box or setting i missed?
