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thanks for the info RB

I have a customer who would like me to machine pockets between bolt holes in a 18mm wide Linear Bearing Rail to lighten it. I'm not sure if these are case or thru hardened. I am assuming something like .18 depth and maybe 3/8 wide pocket. Anyone done any machining on these before? I have done very little hard metal machining in cnc. Running HAAS, 7500 RPM I understand rail is likely to move a little, not a big issue in this application. Any information would be appreciated, Thanks RB

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If I am not mistaken the only way to accomplish this would be to Transform - Offset Contour the desired stepover. Chain the offset contour first then desired contour when chaining toolpath. Using no multi pass and "by contour" in depth cuts. "By contour" will cut the first chain to full depth then go to the next chain. If by depth is selected in depth cuts it will cut as you are already getting using multi pass, each chain will be cut in order but one depth cut at a time. Select a new layer before creating offset geometry and it can be blanked in level manager to get it out of the way after used. HTH Have a good weekend

Not sure exactly what you are looking for. Do you want cutter to make depth cuts to final Z depth before stepping over for next pass?

I believe "by contour" will refer to more than one contour being machined. You can accomplish what (I think) you are looking for by unchecking Multi Pass and leaving stock in X, Y, and use two operations to get to final contour. HTH

Manually = Alt+F12 - Select rotation point for 3D Connexion device Not in a C-Hook but this works in X3 MU1

If depth called out, create curve top edge of hole, Xform-translate to depth, solid extrude draft outward. Love it Thanks kunfuzed

Thanks for the help, my reseller showed me where the control panel applet is. Since I have a shortcut on desktop I dont go to Start/All Programs very often. Now a lot of other threads make some sense. Thanks again RB

I was unable to find "components" in control panel. Used Mastercam X utility, tried to un-reg then register, bottom of window stated -ole. initialize failed -both times Using Vista I also get the not a valid win32 app warning tnx

I am having this problem as well, how do you re-register the dll file? Thanks in advance RB

gcode, i will try that as soon as i can, off to dinner. I will have to try to get that off the disk as i am pretty sure i overwrote it with my own from x2. Colin G, all 3 buttons set to "break rapid moves" tnx

I checked that out first and none of the 17000 series numbers in table are close to what i saw in my post. I then (after posting ?) checked my old machine and it was doing the same thing. I feel like an idiot now but still am curious as to why this is happening. I noticed max depth var in paramaters is set to .005 same as my cut depth but it is also blanked out-unable to change. I dont think thats it. Thanks for the reply, you have definitely helped me a lot learning MC

Just installed X3 MU1. Was using MR2 SP1 on older comp, bought new laptop to start using X3. Imported MMD files, solved a few issues. I now have a Z axis feed rate posting by itself on a line with no movement. G0 Z.06 X.5924 Y-.7454 Z-.257 G1 Z-.282 F3.5 X.6019 Y-.7831 F9. F3.5 X.6366 Y-.9215 F9. X.5194 Y-.8401 F3.5 X.4875 Y-.8179 F9. G0 Z.06 I have searched and searched for this and came up empty. I know its has to be simple, just cant find it. No high low feed issues, any help would be greatly appreciated Haas 4x mill post Thanks in advance