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I have an old Cincinnati Arrow 750 with a Fanuc 18I control. I am struggling with getting it to drip feed program or run from the memory card. Any help?
I have the okay to replace one of our Bridgeport Mills this year. I am considering something like a Trak mill. I need something that has a similar foot print and also can be run manually. Any recommendations?
I've been using MC Wire for over 20 years on Mitsubishi Machines. I am currently using MC 2020 to program 3 Mits. machines, one of them being a new MV1200-R. I have no problem programming tapers. I don't quite understand what you are trying to accomplish and where your struggles lie.
What is the most efficient way to program countersinks? The flat on the end varies . There doesn't seem to be a spelled out standard for these tools. I have been physically measuring tools before I program them.
It has been my experience with X+ crashing in 2018 is when I open a part that was previously programmed and try outputting a setup sheet with doing a regen.
Have spoke to the engineer of the part? Possibly that small of a radius isn't necessary and was over looked in the design. I run into that quite often.
We have 4 of them here but I'm not involved with them . They are used here in production, engraving our light cases. examples:
https://www.zippo.com/collections/lighters?page=2&sort_by=price-descending
If I understand it correctly, if I have a complex part and want to use optirest, I can set up a stock model using the previous operations to use for the rest mill setup?
How do you handle parts that the imported solid model is made exactly the to print but the print has different plus and minus tolerance's through out. Do you edit the model? Use stock to leave? Use comp? or sent it back to person who made the model?
He's a quick easy way to do this, a basic 2d contour with depth of cut set it to cut a taper. I did this years ago before I had surface. Also this works good for the old machines with little memory.
I mainly thread holes from 4-40 up to 3/8-16. I might have time today to mess with threadmilling. Thanks for all the help offers and I will be taking you up on them. BTW the machines I'll be trying this on are a Okuma Genos 560 and a Cinci with a fanuc 18I
I've never got a handle on thread milling. I bought a couple thread mills to try and busted them and never went back. Maybe I'll take another stab at it. Any help?
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