i do similar stuff. that is 4th axis making many compleat revolutions.

In making my second pass i simply do that second pass while the axis is "unwinding" "copy after" your last machine operation, and edit the geometry and reverse your chain.

then enter shop leader in key words. it is the first one that comes up. Sorry for all these posts.

sorry that dosn't seem to be working. try this

https://wlgore.taleo.net/careersection/1/mo...rch.ftl?lang=en

then enter shop leader in the key words section. it is the frirst job that caomes up. promise it is still avaliable

go here for details, any questions you can e amil me directily and see if i can answer them or put you in touch with thoes who can.

https://wlgore.taleo.net/careersection/1/jobdetail.ftl

W.L Gore in Flagstaff Arizona listed in Forbs as in the top 100 companys to work for in USA.

guess not

anyone going???

hay mike i am up here in Flagstaff if you get this way somtime. Like on your way to see the canyon.

am the kiwi here working in flagstaff lol

what formula do you out there use to cauculate chipload???

good as in the tool parameters is where i was looking for it as it was in the off brand cam i was checking out. wil have ot go give it a go.

thanks guys

i recently looked over the shoulder of a programmer using something other than MC. in one of his diologue boxs a chipload amount was automaticaly generated ones the speed and feed was entered. good idea i thought. does MC have this somewhere that i am missing????

thanks guys. first little blip in my Wendsday morning here.

somehow i have locked a couple of toolpaths, i wont to tweak a couple of numbers. How to remove this lock??? and how did i do this in the first place lol TIA

where do i go to to get the report to apear???? never had to do this before but got a job with a heap of tools so would be nice to take the report to the machine to check tool numbers ect. TIA

thanks guys. seems not as easy as i thought it would be but oh well roll with it i suppose

i wont to cahnge the WCS from G54 to G58 for this one job. There must be an easy way to do this. i have been doing it in the code but there must be a box i am missing parameters page or something.

TIA

just incase somone has ideas

recycle bin------ whelie bin lol

same here on our robo drill with a Fanuc control. i will also be interested to hear anyone elses ideas. specialy programing this move straight form MC. i get around it by cutting on the way back.

getting our X4 talk tomorrow our reseller. worst thing about up grades i hate is all thoes defaults that go away with loading the new program.

work form a solid model and use Pro Drill. Works great.

in regard to this. what direction do you look at the 4th axis to decide if it is turning clockwise or counter clockwise??

I to had this problem and tried to change the direction on the rotary axis page in MC. as far as i can see this button did nothing at all,

but yeah the place to change it is in the post.

i have hade this issue also. i think i ended up morroring the toolpath to get it to work. I know the closkwisw, counterclockwise button didn't do anything for me.

ok got it sorted. YAAAAAA for Jimmy my MC guy in Phoenix. aparently there is a bad but very similar post still deep back there somewhere, the Methods guy aparently loaded the little bit bad post which worked up till i used rotary axis.

Thanks guys for all your help, no doubt you be hearing form me again with my next crises

ok here at work now and still rapiding to z0. It is that R0 code that is giving me problems for sure. how does one get that to change????

ok thanks justin will give it a whirl early tomorrow.