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I am looking at other brands including the thinkpads. I just have not found one that meets everything Im looking for yet. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Im looking to buy a used laptop to run mastercam at home. Mainly for home learing/training etc. I was looking at ebay and Im just wondering what are some minimum specs I should look for. I know about a dedicated nvidia grahics card. are there any cards to stay away from? Will most "gaming" machines run mastercam? Im trying to stay under $400. Is there anywhere else to buy good used laptops besides ebay?
here is one example of what I was looking at. what do you think??
DELL PRECISION M6300 Core 2 Duo 2.20GHz 4GB 320GB Nvidia Quadro FX1600
http://www.ebay.com/itm/360834127740?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Thanks in advance.
I was thinking about getting some training materials from emastercam and saw they offer print bundles and ebooks. The ebooks are pdf and are in color. The print bundles also come with video training cd and are printed in black/white. Any pro and cons I should think about?
Masterminder did you get the machine yet?? Do you guys use and type of g-code verification with your 5 -axis machines? It might be our 1st 5 axis so Im looking for any tips I can get about what else We need to go with the machine.
cool thanks. ill have to try that to. So far we are making lots of progress running a .001 total tolerance. with a cut tolerance of 50% cut tolerance and 25% line/arc and smoothing. At least double actual feed rates. Fingers crossed
Im using a 1.25 ball to do majority and step down in sizie to get corners/leftover areas
Im not sure why I didnt use arcs in al lplanes. im goin to try that now.
Im not sure I understand this. Where/How is this done?
Machine is not wore out. It just does not have much memory so we DNC to it and it does not have high speed look ahead. its about a 13 year old fanuc controller.
Thanks guys,
Laszlok, most of what we do have very little flat areas. most of it seems to have 1/2 degree or more that we need to match so horizontal area doesnt do much go there. but i do use it where I can. I havent had alot of luck useing waterline on parts like this but I havent tried for awhile either.
I get what you guys are saying but I'm not sure if I'm wording my question correctly. How far can I open up the filter settings before I have to worry about the code starts to deviate from the model. That should not be effected by the memory size of machine, setup , or tooling used. I don't have the luxury of having time to play with settings on 1 off parts. Thanks anyways
I was looking for answers to how the filters affect accuracy of the posted code. But it seems no one wants to comment on that. The documentation mastercam gives refers to the shape of the part when talking about when and what to use for filters. That's why I posted an example of the part. Thanks for those who did comment something useful. Hopefully some else can chime in with some settings that are proven to work
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