Hi all. 99 % of programs in my shop are climb cut. Just wonder when and why we go for conventional cut. Need help from all. Thanks.

Is there anyway to pull out dimentions from a solid model? please help. Thanks for reading this.

For 3d toolpath, is there any rule to apply on when to use such as parallel,countour,flowline.... Can someone explain . Thanks for reading this.

Thanks for your help, and i found this: ********************************* "Someone on the board figures this out so I am just passing it along. It is perfect for holes. (Dimeter of hole - diameter of tool) / 2 x .4142 = Y Put Y in in length and radius and 135 degrees in sweep. This has the tool come down in the center of circle every time."

1000+ Dave

Hello all. I have a part .375 thickness with a hole 1.000 dia and .020 chamfer 45 deg on both side. I can do a chamfer on top of hole , but have trouble to figure out how to make a contour at bottom . Just use 2D. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for your reply. It's very helpfull here.

I start thread milling for the first time but hardly find any info.Use v9.1 and i could not see any thread tool in tool manager. So need help from anyone and relly appriciate. Thanks.

Thanks billet, i'll try by next week.

Thanks Kannon, but the Hass head doesn't read the "A" move in program, it only read whatever we manualy program for it and it can't move at the same time with X or Y.

Sorry about hijack, but my problem is about engrave too. I try to engrave some letters on 2.00 dia cylynder, but we do not have 4th axis machine, only a Hass indexing head. Need help. Thank a lot.

Thanks a lot. I was wrong when i said i did in ver. 8 Thanks again for looking at my problem. Have a beautiful weekend

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Thank for your advise, but that what i did in verson 8.1 , check Multipass and check Depth cut which is control by " by contour" or ' by depth" Im i missing something ?

Hi all. I just try out with X3 on a simple contour toolpath depth cut mark( 2 steps down)and 2 rough path around a 2 by 2 square part. As a result, i always get 2 rough path with same z depth and 2 rough path at final z depth. i can't get the tool path " by contour " Any idea would be appriciate. Thanks