It can't. It's a Positional 5 Axis Rotate A & C and lock in place then machine. So far the guys we have talked to with ball bars can't get in here for a couple of weeks.

We recently purchased a used Nissin Max410I 5axis machining center with a Fanuc 21I mb controller on it. The machine has a couple of problems. 1) the finish isn't what it should be. If you cut a circle with the machine it leaves what would best be described as a sawtooth finish in the part(cutting aluminum). I put a .0001 indicator in the spindle and indicated the hole in and the needle is constantly jumping about .0002. 2) I ran a 1.5" diameter circle at 7600rpm and 20"/minute feedrate and the circle is fairly round but rough finish. I put xxxxm in the hole sped the feedrate up to 150inches per minute and ran the program again. I had to add .009 in the tool compensation before all of the bluing cleaned up that I had put in the hole. I then put the indicator back in the machine and rechecked the hole and it showed to be .008" bigger diameter in the x than it was in the Y. We have had Fanuc in to work on the controller and they said the issues was mechanical. We brought someone in to work on the mechanics and so far he has not found anything wrong but says we should start by changing the thrust bearings out. Any ideas as to what the problem might be with the mahine? I can get a decent finish so long as I'm only cutting in one axis at a time. Thanks.

I would like to send it over but it is against company policy. I will try again to get our designers to give me dxf files and see if they will import. Thanks for the help

Is there a way to import Unigraphics drawing files(2d prints) into Mastercam or Solidworks? Solidworks will import the native Unigraphics solid file with no problems but I can't get the 2d print to come in.

Suppose to receive this machine early next week. I received new hasp codes for Mastercam wire package last Friday and have been playing with it some. Will the Generic Fanuc post work for this machine or will I need a special post? Thanks

Thanks for the info. Does anyone on here have one of Fanuc Robocut I-med machine? Are thy any good? Can you import dxf? Are they easy to operate? Craig

On Wire edm machines what is the U. & V. Axis on the machine. We are looking at purchasing a Fanuc Robocut I Med machine. The X Y Z travels are 14.6" x 10.6" x 10.2 The U/V Travels are 2.36" inches, What does this mean? thanks

Once again I want to thank John for his help. We had to rotate the part on the Tilt table instead of rotating the table on the horizontal machine to get this to work out.

Got the file. Once again thanks for the help.

Where did you send the file to? Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the replies. JDowe I will check the numbers in the morning and see if the work out for me. The tilt table is just a manual table that we set up with a 5" sine plate and indicator. Set the table at 32.875 degrees and clamped the part on it. Then put the whole table on the machine and clamped it down and rotated the fourth axis on the machine.

I've put a file on the FTP named CQ_REAR_COVER ftp://www.mastercam-cadcam.com/Mastercam_forum/X4_Files/ I'm going to put the 16mm hole in on a compound angle using a Horizontal 4 axis Machining center, and a Tilt table. I laid the hole out, with a scribe, on the part tilted the table to 32.2875 and rotated the machine to 20.483 Set up off of the tooling ball and moved X-2.9737 and Y 2.0145 and it doesn't come out Right. Question is: What angle should the tilt table be tilted to, What angle should the table be rotated to, What distance should I move off of the tooling ball in x & Y.

I expected to get several. I've heard good things about the Agies myself but know very little about Wire edm. One thing I failed to mention is accuracy (5 micron tolerance on a lot of our work) and finish would be very important on anything we buy but I'm not sure how accurate you can get with a wire edm machine, I'm just starting to look at them.

I've been asked to get some qoutes on wire edm machines. Most parts we work on would be no bigger than about a 12" x 12" x 2", most of the time it would be much smaller. Only wire machine I've ever used was a Mitsubishi and didn't run it very much but it wasn't very user friendly. Thanks

X4 mu1 The trim function will not work if I have maintain only mask checked and and have a color selected. Example: New file draw to lines that cross each other in the same color then select only, select the color you just drew the lines in then select maintain only mask and try trimming one of the lines. Everything works fine so long as the Maintain only Mask is not selected. Is anyone else seeing this problem.