Without having used this new feature yet, and having all the issues it's causing,I wonder how hard it would be to give Mastercam Mill the same functionality as Mastercam Lathe as far as stock recognition? Works really good there.

+1 to Verisurf's Add on. Or if you have a PDF printer such as Win2PDF, just print out your screen as a PDF file, then you can send that. I do it this way as going with -screen/copy image to clipboard just gets me a blank space on Win7. Also X+ will give me some problems with the grafics area such as icons missing on the toolbars. Then again, this must all be a driver issue but the PDF printing works fine for me. HTH

How abou pocket cutting,? On the rough parameters tab use spiral and add a finish pass to cut the id to size. HTH

He didnt mean it will be a single file on the control, his example will load 3 different programs (O1000 as main, and O0001 and O0002 as subs) but it will load them all at once as descibed on my previous post, see the % at beginning and bottom after O0002? Oh well, all this is for the fanucs I've worked with on the past

It is not P that tells the control how many times to repeat it but L, so M98 P1001 L3 would run program 1001 on 3 repeats. Also, I do like the M97 call on the haas' but I do agree that is actually faster for the controller to jump to a separate program indtead of looking inside the one running. Have you ever tried to restart a looong program in the middle on a haas control? It can literaly take some 30 seconds to read from the top down to the restart point. Besides that, it is easier on Fanuc controllers to edit any subprograms when needed using the background editing while the machine keeps running, something I still can't figure out how to do on haas. As far as organizing programs, fanuc controls will take all text at once as long as it doesnt find the % sign so a single file on your server can have a main program and 10 subs all with their own Oxxxx program number and a single % at top and a last % at the very bottom, after the last sub's M99. HTH

lol, thanks jay, I didn't know that, I always remodel everything on solidworks so i didn't know that about that Chook. just trying to give some help

Yes, it's on the Chooks folder but it's on the FTP if you can't find it. My link

Thanks a lot Keith!

How about the stl2surf chook? It's on the chooks folder

How about HST Dynamic rest Mill?? You only need to select your Hex Geo and tell it to read stock from your previous drilling op. Works pretty good here.

Do you mean on X5's installation sample files? If so, I don't have that file, does anybody mind to share a copy?

Hi JParis, as I said before, I've got it to work using morph between curves but was tring to do it the way you described it with no luck, would you mind explaining a little more?

Are you working on 2 different machines or single machine? As Gcode said, If you are programming the 2nd Op for the same machine, I do make a new toolpath group and start it with a "Lathe Stock Flip" operation this way you won't need to create the STL for it. If you do have another machine definition loaded, then go the same route and add a "Stock Flip" as the last operation on your 1st Op Group and save that STL to be called out for the 2nd Machine group stock.

On your tool definition, change the overall height to the stickout value you want.

Teh Bear said: "Posted Today, 09:38 AM By the way how hard would be to implement find tool by color I mean click on the specific color on model and to get info on tool that left it May be for 5 tools setup it looks like overkill and if I have 60 tools or more ... " That would be a really nice feature if it could do that. Did they get X6 to keep the updated stock for verify as it does it on lathe? I hate having to run all my toolpaths just to verify my finishing or saving an STL each time, Could MC save an STL to a temp file and do it automatically maybe? naaah way to much memory & time consuming when we have lots of toolpaths I guess.

There was a discussion about this not long ago on a previous thread. Here is a Link: Link

Morph did work fine but needs a little more to be defined in order to work. i was just hoping there was something on my rotary paths that would fix the cutting order as it was simpler to program than morph. Thanks for the help, I hope somebody else can give us some other ideas about this one.

Well I tried with the regular surface paths but i couldnt get them to wrap around the part. I'll give the morph option a try. Any other idea?

sorry, the 4th is laying on the X axis. I'm using the rotary 4th axis from the multiaxis paths, so there is no chain, using surfaces. The rotations on the 4th axis are fine, what I need is change the order the toolpath is generated as I want the cut to go from the left to the right or from out the stock and getting closer to the 4th axis chuck. I couldn't figure out hot to tell it where to starts and it defaults on the right side, which is closer to the chuck, leaving it this way is giving me some rigidity issues. Any idea how to change it?

So, I'm trying to get a 4th axis rotary toolpath on a prt but i can't figure out how to make it go from left to right, as it always tries to go away from X0. we are working on a Haas VF3 with a 4th axis on the right side. Any ideas how to revert it? thanks

Wow, Thanks Chris, I didn't try that tool before. Good to know it's there!

Well That's about on the same values I started with, but didn't really worked out as well, my biggest problem seems to be the rigidity of the stock as I can't really go around the part. Again, my stock is 2" Round sticking out 4.25" on 4th axis and need to take the material off the sides of the shape shown on the pic above. We do this type of cut quite fast and easy on other stainless grades but this A-286. I tried those values going accross but the interrupted cut wasn't really good on the tool. Let me see if I can get some of those dataflutes and give them another try on your cutting conditions. I'll post the results. Thanks.

Thanks for the help guys, but Unfortunately we are trying to mill it here and as this was our first time cutting it we didn't know what to expect. We haven't got any real good results as of now with insert cutters but are getting thru with solid carbide endmills which we still want to improve tool life. Biggest issue on insert cutters is on the cycle time and also tool life, had some reps from Iscar & Ingersoll but didn't really worked out that good. We just can't keep on trying much thought since we have to deliver next week and still have some 60 parts to go. Any recommendations on carbide roughers? Thinking that possibly the smaller chips will make for less stress & heat to be generated during the cut. Material seems to be in anneadled condition.

I use Alt+Q for quick access, that way I can use my left hand and call it real quick when I need it.

Any ideas how to rough this material? Stock is 2" Round sticking out 4.25" on 4th axis. See pic attached. Tried both insert facemill using rep recommendations, no luck, had best results using solid carbide endmill & HST type cutting but I don't really like tool life results. Any recommendations as far as Speeds & feeds? Thanks.