Is this what you are looking for? Over ride.pdf

Has anyone else experienced only being able to select 3 drill points in lathe? I was trying to select the four holes, but it only allows me to select three of them. Is this a bug or a setting? Any help would be appreciated! lathe drill.mcam

Sometimes you can change your stepover a little like .01-.03 and it will clean it up. It could perhaps be a bug also.

Thanks Chally! I will try it.

Hello, You can create the diameter oring you need at the X & Y co-ordinates with your z set at zero. Then you project it on to the surfaces you need. I can't open your file so I can't give you an example. I hope this file helps. center_oring.docx

I can't get the DXF way to work , but I can create them in the stand alone. The problem I have is how do you assign the holder in tool manager? I can merge them in on a level and use that, but I want to assign them thru the tool manager. Good luck everyone.

Start from scratch here is an excel program to use for pitch, tpi and rpm tap.xlsx

Click on the blue lines with the blue arrow. It will reposition it to the bottom of the screen, click it again it will go away. Right click again and drop down should be back to normal.

Thank you gentlemen!

Hello, I have a Harvey 964393-C3 (.093 bullnose with a .01 radius x .5 endmill. I have some slots that are .110 wide and .490 deep. The material is a 4130 which was welded into place. It is a little harder because of that, but we have to mill some slots I wanted to try and high speed mill it with a small chipload. Can anyone you give me some sort of starting point as far rpm and chipload? I have come up with a starting point of 17,000 and a federate of 20.4 giving me a chip of .0003. What depth of cut would by safe? Am I way of chart with these speeds? I am stuck with the endmills right now because it is a hot job that needs to get out the door.

Than you I will try it this morning!

Hello, We are trying to peck tap on our Haas. The post seems right, but it goes to full depth without coming out of hole. I have the repeat rigid tap turned on in the machine control. Here is what the post looks like. % O0000 (PROGRAM NAME - PECK TEST ) (DATE= 05-05-17 TIME= 09:04 ) N100 G0 G17 G20 G40 G49 G80 G90 ( RIGHT-HANDED TAP - 0.19 TOOL - 4 LEN. - 4 DIA. - .19 ) T4M6 N110 G0 G90 G54 X-17.25 Y3.75 S1920 M3 N120 M8 N130 G43 H4 Z.25 N140 M31 N150 G98 G84 Z-0.171875 R.1 F60. N154 Z-0.34375 ; N156 Z-0.515625 ; N158 Z-0.6875 ; N310 G80 N320 M5 N330 M9 N340 G91 G28 Z0. N350 G28 Y0. M33 N360 M30 %

Brian that is a smoke and mirror deal. Parden the pun. Of course they have a mirror finish. A) How long did it take to cut? The geometry was probably perfect for a toolpath. Big arcs sweeping transitions. You would loose your shirt running the speeds and feeds and stepovers. There is a tipping point machine time vs. polishing time.

Without seeing geometry I would use a ballburr or a radius slot mill and you could 3D contour it. Mill from bottom to top.

I used to go to the race track in Wall. Modifieds used to tear it up!

@ Cathedral My reseller told me to use the those two in combination. I have a Haas also, maybe that is why.

I use the dynamic area mill first, roughing the outside and inside pockets depending on alcohol consumption I use the helix entry method with a 22" push mower at 1 1/2 to 2 miles an hour, then I restmill with a 42" rider around 5 miles an hour at full depth. It only crashes when my kids go outside the boundaries...

DrunkenPanda, How did you make out with your part?

As BissTool Asked: I saw this late and missed the get together.

That's funny! We will all be MC zombies!

I had to justify maintenance this year to the powers that be. They wanted to know just how this $Xk plus was worth it. They wanted a break down of my calls and how often I used it. We won't be changing software, but I now have convince them it is worth it. I won't be changing over to X7 until I read it on here that it is safe and stable.

We should get refunded for essentially being beta testers!

A just release version and we are talking SP2 already. Sounds like trouble! I am not installing this pos on my computer.

Just hit the R key.