Am curious what kind of accuracy people are getting out of there 5 axis routers. We have a quite worn DMI that claims .005 new and that is killing me making mold tooling. most of our final part tolerances are +/-.03 but I like my tooling money on. TIA Doug

I have no control or vision of permissions (locked out). some folders in the install directory are read only. I can change them but when i go back into propertied it is back to read only?? I have to assume this is some group policy? lots I am not privy to, its a corporate thing. good times license file is on a server. when i open vericut it indicates license is good. i can open help and verify.

I can start fresh but as soon as I try to load machine, control or project it gives me the boot instantly with no message. java and video are all latest

thank G been there done that too. I seriously think it is in the group user policy on our domain. was hoping someone out there works for a company that lets them in on that end?? I know far reach but I was cnc programmer and network administrator at two previous companies. worked as a good side gig wile my programs were running (filled in the gaps of time). learned lots and it really has an impact on the heavy end users (cad-cam etc.).

did that with no luck i am local admin on my workstation but think some group policy or?? has me locked down?

We just aquired a seat of vericut but am having problems with the new install on windows 10. upon new project or save as or save configuration settings it bails on me (vericut closes with no message or warning). I have a few people working on this issue but we are all scratching our heads at this point?? hopefully one of our e-mastercam gods have run accross this and have a solution? TIA Doug

did something like this years ago and it worked pretty well. I think we used a boring cycle (G85?) feed in feed out. 100's of 4-40 threaded holes , each part in copper. fast way to get it done. hardest part was keeping chips from loading taps.

ball nose iny or outy depends on your clamping. iny meaning lollypop style.

many years ago we used kurt hydrolic vises. cannot remember if clamping force could be dialed down to what your looking for but would surely check with them, very nice product.

we rented when in a bind. worked out well. I would do some local research as availability?

no my experience is xeon is slower. now apples to apples was clock speed only am sure the cache was the big difference? I did not spend time to fully spec them out. yes xeon is much more expensive. I have come to conclusion they are better suited for server application.

funny you should say that. I have found the same results in my ventures with other company's even near apples to apples xeon to I7 clocks.. unfortunately I am stuck with what I have for hardware at the moment. someday hope they see the light.

you prob. already know but watch your drills that stuff will work harden and you will be banging your head on the table wondering why your taps are not working? sorry been there done that. lol

I used to roll that way but I really like my job and the people I work with so if the company wants to trip over $100 to save $1 gotta let them? I just don't want to put salt on the wound by upgrading and making it worse? I just downloaded 2018 and will test drive it. thanks for the advise.

show off I would be lucky to get a trs-80 right now. lol

wow no replies yet. I have no real life experience with this but have done much reading. sounds like the p value may have to do with ac-dec? e has to do with accuracy. I would do some testing on your specific machine as the mass is going to make some difference (heavy parts-fixtures etc). also not all alike machines are the same regarding HSM. sorry cant help more

Looking for advise from those that have installed and run X9 through the latest versions of Mastercam. We have maintenance to that is not issue here. My question is what kind of resource usage-requirement have you seen in latest versions compared to X9? we are currently on X9 and running a xeon 2gig processor, 16 gig ram and turtle slow hard drive. quadro 600 vid. card. I am having a real hard time watching the crunch times as it is so am reluctant to upgrade software at this time. hardware upgrade is out of the question at this point argh. 5 axis complex surfacing. what are others thoughts. TIA Doug

Yep former APT programmer here too. it has brought some good organization skills but some old school not so good habits to my approach programming. I keep trying to evolve, a work in progress. Doug

thread mill is the ultimate solution but I have had great luck with the OSG hypro lines in exotic metals. some older machines just don't lend themselves to threadmilling?

Thanks Gcode, I make sure and baby this machine the head is a very week point. lots of light cuts really fast has been my approach (18k spindle).

thanks for the reply. we do not cut carbon? if that is what your saying. mostly fiberglass and composites there of. I am in aware of any external offset setting? thanks for the reply and do educate me. I have 30+ years experience on various (mostly fanuc) machines but this one is very new to me. I am leaning heavily towards a regular cleaning of resolver, encoder?? IDK I am new to the machine and materiel being cut. this is for sure a humbling trade. thanks again. Doug

Ok this is a new one to me with exception of some 1960's machines I have worked with. I was machining on our dmi router today. new program so I checked depth of cut to z position several times (verify my zero setting) all was good. ran the part out took about 3 hours. then went back into production parts these are proven programs with org statement in program (like g10 on fanuc). first few parts were flat pattern and showed a little evidence of not breaking thru, I shrugged it off. next part had z sensitive features (esp. a wheel cut). scrapped the part and was headed for the second. I checked z setting, tlo etc. I have been doing this long enough to know 99% of error is the guy in front of the control so I approached this as so. not the case here as far as I can tell. finally set up an indicator to tool at set spot. zero referenced machine and z changed by .025. I suspect .0254 but did not check that close. What gives? the reason I suspect .0254 and it is a long shot but does this machine run metric encoder that reads .1mm? IDK. sure is suspicious. We work in composites so it is a nasty dusty environment if that gives any one something to go on. optical encoders? This is unexceptable in my books but need a root cause and solution. management wants me to remake the fixture, etc, etc. that is not going to solve a machine losing position. input would be much appreciated. Doug

Been a very long time but work offsets are different not g54 etc tool length offset code is different? not g48? some canned cycle codes are different, g98 g99 is a different code? macro programming is way different but very powerfull that's just from memory there may be a bit more your going to love it once you get used to it. Okuma rocks.

Well look at that, someone hacked the post. tlngno$ = t$ middle of post so it was not hitting every cutter path. THANK YOU COLIN I love this forum Doug

Thanks all I have a request for support going. love the input. Colin I am purposely programming a tool number offset number mismatch. we are limited on space in the rack, have dedicated jobs-tools in it and I need to slide some jobs through with different tools but will have to duck in and out between production. 12 tool carosell, example: tool 9 will use offset 19. this allows me to swap tools on the fly and not have to re-enter tool lengths.