I currently am working on our largest chamber part we have ever made. It measures 38" tall x 27" wide x 20" thick 6061 Forging. It only weighs in at 1598 lbs. compared to your 7 tons. But this is plenty big enough for me ! Have you got inspection capabilities for that 900" ? Must be some big calipers and micrometers you use

Hi efred, The reason it wants to turn it around is because MC is associative. What you want to do is rotate the geo around 180 while set in Top T/C Plane. After that go to the view you want. Looking at the side of the part you want to machine set your T/C plane and save that as your named view. Hope this is clear enough to help you out.

Hi Angel, .idw are 2D Drawing files from Autodesk Inventor. .ipt are part files from Inventor. You need to get .ipt files and then run File,Converter,Autodesk,Read File,pick .ipt from the drop down menu and then get your file from wherever you saved the .ipt files. HTH

Hi Bryan, Welcome to the Forum. One of the best tools for learning MC tricks is right here. Also as Scott stated this place is alot of FUN !!! As for refreshing of this page just hit F5.

Hi jadkins, Go to Drafting,Globals,Point Dimensions and check 3D Labels. HTH

Hi reg, Go here in your post to set output. # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- #String and string selector definitions for NC output # -------------------------------------------- HTH

Hi elad, What I do is go to Gview,Named,now right click on any view and click Create,copy selected and give that a new name. Now I can set my "0's" and offset number as well. The other way is to go to Gview,Entity and pick geo to set new work offset. I always leave my WCS set to top. Just my way of doing things. And I don't need to regen ops. HTH

Hi heeler, Try this for giggles. Mill open 1" hole 1" deep and then drill with 1" drill all the way thru then mill open to 1.375 and then drill 1.375 4.2 down. Now flip over and get on location and mill open to 1.308 with endmill and don't use last core drill. Good luck. HTH

Hi Phil, Got mine last week. Nice huh ?

Hi Steve, Yeah thats the way it works as far as I know. You can however copy to clipboard and paste in paint or whatever other software you may prefer and then print that file. You might do a Search for this topic also as it's been gone over. HTH

Hi, Maybe go check Screen,Configure,Plotter Settings In there is a box for use Windows driver, also check to see if there is a printer under device type. If not the problem, maybe check in Windows first to see if you can print anything at all or if there is a printer test page coming out ok. HTH

Hi James, We have used Votaw (custom built software now obsolete)and more recently Visual Mfg. Now we use new software called Adonix X3. There website www.adonix.com HTH

Hi Chris, Time for a Mazak "horror" story. My current employer setup a FH-680 Horizontal Mill Cell with 3 machines, 16 pallets and robot. These are '96 machines that I started working on in '97. The "Z" axis way covers started coming apart 3 months after we started "lights out ops". To make a long story short over the next 2 1/2 yrs we went through 67 left and right covers before the engineers from Oguichi,Japan came over and took pictures. They then redesigned the inner support plates with Teflon bushings. Throughout this whole ordeal our owner stuck to his guns and made them cover it all under warranty. I can tell you also that we needed these machines to run so bad that we kept spare covers on hand and could change them in 30 min. Not cool but necessary. Not to keep rambling but "standard practice" depends on where your from and what you do. Tell your owner/boss to stick to his/her guns and don't cough up that check until he decides the machine passes his/her criteria. Mazaks are good machines but it doesn't mean they are perfect. HTH

Or... Trails in the Sand by Peter Draggin

Hi Andrew, quote: everyone knows that Mazak uses Morii (the plural for Mori) to make their machines! I didn't see any Moris out in Kentucky.

Hi, It wasn't low end when it was new. However today GE Force 4 Ti 4600 128mb card is what I would lean towards for MC as good all around hotrod vid card. JM2C

Andrew, Yes sir I do know that. I actually use the cell controller on our Mazaks to upload and download the programs. Just alot safer than having all the programs in one folder.

Hi all, For you Mazak folks out there. Another handy tip is to create 2 directories. 1 named Unproven, 1 named Proven. Works well for us here.

Hi Gary, Welcome to the Forum. There is not a better free learning tool than this Forum for MC. The other thing that you find here is knowledge covering all aspects of manufacturing. Finally you will also find alot of Really Good People .

Hi Jack, First of all I would like to apologize for some of the inappropriate comments I've made. With that said I'll move on to your current task. Somehow an 8" chuck doesn't sound very safe either when you think about the weight of those raw bars. Here at my company we have a Mori SL7A. This is a big lathe with 16" chuck and when they buy the "pie jaws" they're 12" thick by 24" dia. I can't imagine holding 16" dia bars 17" long with anything less than 8" inside the jaws. The 8" chuck could probably handle the short parts with some custom built jaws no problem. As far as posts go I'm still learning from the CD so can't help you out there. Regards,

Hi Bullines, Could you please add a little black mask as chris suggested ? Hi Chris, quote: "...you all suck, you're hackers, you don't know what you're doing, and if you ever come up here to the frozen tundra I'll kick all of your a**es at the same time..." you hit the nail on the head bro' !!! ROFLMAO

Hi Bruce, quote: The only thing the techs could figure out is it is overheating when its running in that rpm range. So the techs are saying the elec. spindle motor is overheating and they don't know if it's the spindle drive controller sending to much or not enough current, or if the spindle bearing system might be the problem. Maybe you should look into another repair company if possible.

Hi Ken, You need to save the view of the T/C Plane you have set and give the view a name. And then save file and see what you get.HTH

Hi Paul, Had another thought last night about drawbar pressure or strength. That might be another thing to check into. Or the spindle motor dying could be looked into as well. HTH

Hi Dan, Sorry about the extra post but you can also set C plane to 3D to help you drawing.