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Go into the Fanuc side (big "F" key on the floating button). The hit the OFS/SET key, scroll till Tool offsets , press "OPRT" soft key, then "punch". besure to have your external card connected.
Here's a pic of what I'm trying to do. The red is each pass and the green is the final dim. I'm machinig a casting and don't want to havr to take 10 depths of cut and then 10 multipasses. I'm grinding this on a Makino A61 converted to grinding.
I'll play with the Tapered Walls setting.
I have to thread mill a 3/4-16 STI hole in Stellite 31. Any thoughts on tooling, speeds and feeds and depth of cut?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I beg to differ. I have yet to be able to open SW assembly files. I have no problem opening part files but I get the "no parasolid data" error with assembly files. My reseller tried to help me with this with no luck, he contacted CNC Software but never got a definite answer. I sent my reseller an assembly file and he opened it on all his machines except the one that didn't have SW on it.
I have come to believe that it's because I don't have SW installed on my machine.
It sounds like he needs the feed outputting in pitch instead of ipm. Years ago I had a machine that need the feed in pitch, I had to get the post customized and I'm not sure what they did.
Hi all, I have a project coming up where I have to tap a 3/4-16 Heli-Coil thread into Stellite 31. I'm thinking I need to thread mill this. Any thoughts on tooling and speeds and feeds would be greatly appreciated, Thanks
I've been having this problem for years. I can import a Solidworks part file but not an assembly file. CNC software has yet to tell me what the problem is. I'm suspecting that it has to do with me not having Solidworks installed on my system.
Does anybody know of a good video camera system we can put inside our machine? I have some tricky parts to machine on the back side of the tombstone (opposite of the door)on our HMC and I was thinking a video camera would be great.
I do have multiple verersions of MC installed. I registered the DLL as per your instuctions, it registered successfully but it still doesn't work. I keep getting the "Cannot find Parasolid data in Solidworks file".
I do have the edrawings viewer on my machine. I can get the engineers to save it as a part (.sldprt) file and open it, I just hate going through another step if we don't have to.
Update, my reseller contacted CNC Software and this was their reply: "This is an issue with both 32 nd 64bit machines. It has been logged as that defect number and is being looked at."
I have not heard anything since.
My MC reseller is looking into it. I sent him the files and he can open them in MC on a system that has Solidworks but can't open them on a system without Solidworks. Unfortunatly I don't have SW on my system.
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