i guess ill chime in for those of us born in the sixties man 4-20-1965 whoa far out!!!i share a birthday with einstien and hitler the best and worst for that date

right click on the tool in the ops mgr on the last page where the rpms and feedrates are

we use a similiar system on our toolroom mills but not on production machines ...works good for one offs and prototype work i dont know about in production work ??? one con is it seems to fog up the shop when used alot other than that it worked good oh yea and leaves a slimmy coating on everything in its path

dont get me wrong im a haas fan as you can read from my other posts but just recently two new vf-4 machines in the first year on one machine new spindal and then the latest machine 2 mounths old 10000 spindal getting alittle hot about 160 degrees thats right another new spindal i hope this isnt a growing trend !!!

look at haas.com good machine good price

brenner ahh is dave whittaker (spelled wrong) still there ??? he was my mcam instructor for v6 met him when he worked at spalding in philly

in v8 on left side of screen you will see tplane set your plane for each side you machine and then i lock each tool path when done in the ops manager all in one file sorry if i dont explain myself to well!!! where do you work???? [ 01-30-2003, 09:42 AM: Message edited by: MACHINEMASTERG ]

mark mothersbog the devo leader is doing music for kids shows like rugrats !!!i guess those who remembered that song are in the over 35 crowd ...... welcome to the club

hi neibor in v8 i used tool planes for multi sided machining all in one file in v9 we now use wcs still getting this one down welcome to this great forum nice to see someone from my area

???? whats a core driLL ?????

been cold here in new jersey 10 degrees first time in years the lake has been frozen for more than a day or two so far been skating for two weeks

crank that baby up toooo slow what type of machine are you using????

the way we idiot proof our jobs was to get rid of all the IDIOTS !!! now we have nothing but know it alls!!!! i just know all of some of the stuff and some of all of the stuff

try another tool smaller than .500 .250 ball???that worked for me once or 750 ball right down the middle of pocket using countor you said the bottom was full radius ???

have propigate along tangencies on this fixed it for me once???/

what we do is on our server we have a folder for the customer ex: boeing then folder with the part # or print# then in that folder would be the cad model the mastercam files our setup sheets instuction sheets and any documetation certs... etc and our photos of the setups and fixture location from the fixture shelfs the sales guy could first check the server to see what is done for a part # or what needs to be done its not perfect but it works some guys dont always do all the nessasary steps to keep the job fully documented but were tring ...also check out this web page im tring for this software for our shop for setup and assembly www.techviewcorp.com

sounds like you should have bought a haas

just a tip all caps is the same as YELLING on the web just a tip

when ever i do engraving i use contour,window then window around geo to engrave then pick at one end for the search point then it does it wala try that o yea cutter on the center line

i do i do i do lets here your tips.... anyone??

here in phily we hang our heads low again fly eagles fly crashed oh well there is always next year but we say that every year

quote: but I had forgotten what a jacka** Multax was hey leave jack out of this

then definitly check out the haas toolroom mill we have one great for this type of work... just get the high speed look ahead for the elecrode work... and for around 25000 your set i dont think mori makes this type machine?? but i could be wrong it wont be the first time i also saw a few othermachine tool builders jumping on this band wagon best of both worlds some manual work some cnc automated work and real easy controll with a new conversotional option we like it for what it is

kjs just wondering the type of work you will be doing on the new machine and what type machines are you currently using ????

how about a haas sign with a line through it???