Got it thanks

Where do I find the .EXE file for the mastercam editor?

Our hole sizes are on the average of .125 and 6" inches deep.

Ok, the no peck and dwell I agree will, I have a few question since you seem to have machined this stuff. What type of drills are you using? When you give your drill type can you please give some surface feet recommendations. Are you using High pressure coolant? We are drill approx. 3 inches deep The machine I am using has standard thru the tool 300psi. I know you going to grindge but it is a Haas VF6 2009 model.

We just starting machining this stuff and one thing I am noticing is that when drilling the web of the drill chips out really bad. The lead edge looks decent. I can only assume that it is from the drill not dwelling in the bottom of the peck. We ( myself and our rep )tried getting mastercam to post the code out long hand with a dwell and nothing but trouble. we were able to get it to post with a dwell long hand but it seemed to not want to pick up our peck That is were we threw in the towel. I can type the code up the way it need to be, just trying to stream line the process for other guys in our shop. We have tried Morse cobalt drill, precison twist, and others but it seems to be the same story just might get more tool life out of others. Andbody have any Ideas or suggestions??? Thanks in advance

Rickster, I have noticed that also . I have had the Dia. keep the old tool number as well. The only reason why I add this bit is because anybody that runs a Haas know that there is a setting in the settings page to turn on to make it have an H and T agreement. But it doesn't check Diameters. The software is suppose to help in speeding up programming to actual cutting time. Not throw curve ball in when you least expect it.

I did a search for renumbering tools and noticed that everything was before X4 MU3. Here is an issue that I have noticed with X4 MU3. I am machining a part out of some wonderful 725 inconel just to give you guys a little insight on how great this job is already. In mastercam I have over a 100 operations and multiple time I have to switch out the whole carosel of tools moving from one set-up to another.( I am using a VF-6SS with 25 tool carosel ) So when I do switch from set-up to set-up I just renumber the tools starting from tool 1 on up. Well, something that bite me was renumbering the tool by selecting all of the operations in that group and then and right clicking and renumbering tools. The setting on the renumber page are start with 1 in increments of 1 and add 0 value to the length and diameter. When you go under the tool parameter page everything looks great and matches. When you go under the tool edit page the tool number look great and then here is the problem, when you look at the length and the diamter in that page it is differant ( usally the previous number the tool was ). When you post it out it picks up the number under the tool edit page. So when I noticed that issue I went back into the edit page and changed it to the right number and then repost to see what it looked like and now with all of the numbers matching on both pages it still pick up the old number of the tool. The only way I could get the change to happens was to change the number to the old tool number and the repost again and the go back into mastercam and change the number to the new tool number and then repost again. So needless to say out of 40 operation I only had one operation do this and I did catch it before I went out to the machine. Is the something I am doing wrong or is there some clitch with the software???? I am not the only programmer here and other have had the some issue and asked me about and up till yesterday I have not.

we will take a look at again on Monday. Thanks everybody again

Just so everybody knows who I am, I work with "HooFan" only on the mill side. We purchased it from InHouse. Not knocking the post by any means. I think there is a disconnect with the middle man ( our local dealer ) and that is what is frustating. I think I read in here somewhere that we had to go through our dealer to get anything done with InHouse. Well, that is a problem because if we could just call InHouse directly and talk to somebody this would be fix and we would be on our way and not tring to find other people for advise. When your tring to run a company and other outside people hold you up on getting issues resolved, not a good atmosphere to be in. We will give InHouse and CNC Software a call on Monday to see if we can get diconnect we are having reconnected.

I had the same exact issue on my VF-3 Haas early 2007. They ended up replacing the processor and the USB cable in my machine. I'm don't think replacing USB cable was necesary but it was only 35 bucks. Proccessor on the hand not so cheap.

I can not seem to get a .sldprt file come in with edge curves worth a crap. I have played around with setting in the config folder and nothing seems to work. Does anybody have any insight on what I can do. thanks ahead of time

I'm going a Doc of .031 and 1.125 cutter. I know that sound small but I'm using that cutter to rough in some deep counterbores too.

Right now I'm using the mitsubishi AJX high feed and running 114 ipm and speed of 1867 with a time of 1 hour 10 minutes.Just using a a standard pocketing toolpath. I also had our mastercam rep here to and we played around with the dynamic milling and smoked a 1" endmill.

Tony, What kinda times did you get with that set-up? The machine is a Haas VF3. I do have 300 psi thru the tool. I'm using 2 6" kurt vises with the part sitting all the way down in the bottom. I have plunged milled it and the part didn't move at all. The problem with the plunge mill with the iscar tool manufacter rep. standing right there giving the speed and feed recommendations didn't save me any time from using the 1 1/4 hogmill( 2 hours). The plunge tool was 1 1/2 and it took 2 1/2 hours to rough out. I just had the mitsubishi rep here and he gave me a tool to try and that worked really well (1 hour 10 minutes)use there AJX line of insert tools.

Has anybody tried to us this in a 3 inch deep pocket? I have a pocket that has a raduis of 5.5 inches at one end and a raduis of 4. inches on the other,the center are 6.25 apart, then the arcs are joint by tangent from on to the other. The material is 1045 hot roll. I haven't ran this yeah but my question is were do the speed and feed come from, I suppose maybe you would call the tool manufacture? Any other insight would be great.

Do you get your support directly from inhouse or do you go through a mastercam dealer? One issue I have with going through the dealer is that I might take a longer to get changes made because there is a "middle man" and there is also room for error with a "middle man". Nothing against our local dealer. we are a maintance customer and are current. But we have a hard time paying that to a guy that isn't familiar with the machine at all. None of us are post gurus, we just know what we want and will pay to get it in a timely manner. If we could talk to somebody at Inhouse that would make us feel better about buying it.

I don't doubt the fact that they work great. I am not the one that signs the checks here. And with out most recent past experience with dealing with the local dealer his knowledge on the 7 axis machine is very limited. So the support with getting issues we my have resolved in a timely manner is in question. He has come here on a previuos occasion with a post and we would send changes that we wanted and it took days and then when would get it back was there was no changes made or not the right thing changed.

We have this machine and we are just getting into more advanced jobs and have been using Admac a little to program and some just right at the control. Admac seems to be a little awkward to use but we have seemed to get some code out of it. We are looking to buy a post so we can program in Mastercam. My question for user that have these type of machines is what kinda of support to you have when then post does not do what you want? Also is there many users using mastercam to program this machine? If not what are you using? I would go into more detail as how these questions come about but I might brake some forum rules so I will leave at that. Thanks

I'm just trying to do some research in finding stuff that we can purchase to make ourselfs a little bit more competitive in our area as far a job shop stuff. We are just getting ( about 2 years now ) in to this type of work and I spoke with the boss man last night and this is something he wants to pursue. Just want to get some ideas as far as what other shops have tried and works really well and is veratile for in the job shop eviroment too. I kow experience is going to be a big factor but something a the line of fixtureing capabilties and verification software. we are looking into vericut. I guess I should state the type of work but a job shop could be anything the trunnion is capable of doing from full 5axis to 3+2 type stuff. I am eager to learn. Any suggestion would be great and appreciated.

Is there something that could change when you update your post. I'm do not understand much A++ programmimg right now but I am learning. But, I I have previous stated, this was never and issue before. There was a few guys in here that shed some light on the issue I shouldn't have any issues again now that it is something I pay closer attention too. This is kinda switching gears but just trying to do some research in finding stuff that we can purchase to make ourselfs a little bit more competitive in our area as far a job shop stuff. I kow experience is going to be a big factor but something a the line of fixtureing capabilties and verification software. we are looking into vericut. We are just getting in to this type of work and I spoke with the boss man last night and this is something he wants to pursue. I guess I should state the type of work but a job shop could be anything the trunnion is capable of doing from full 5axis to 3+2 type stuff. I am eager to learn. So any suggestion would be great.

Well, just to put closer to this. I did work and holy crap do I feel a little better about my code go to the machine. I do have one question is there an issue with the dynamic plane or something because up to X4 I did not have this issue. I created my planes the same way. Only this time I used the dynamic since it works much better for finding the angles. Thanks

Thanks guys I will give a try. If this work your smarter then my dealer and me for that matter.

I have been watching this post for a few days now and I see a few people are unhappy with X4. Well, here goes my troubles. I have a mold I am working on and it is just simple 3+2 stuff. I have a few pockets at all kind of angles. Simple stuff, create planes for each of them and use standard pocket tool path followed by a contour to finish. The thing I have notices very often is that that when I post it out, I get the wrong X and Y position right A and B what the crap. The work around is not the same for each one of them. Sometime deleting the toolpath and starting over fixes it and sometime just rechaining fixes it and other times creating a start point fixes it. I know that by now if other people on here had to go through those trial and trubulations to get a part off a machine they would be I frustated. Well, I have 2 more segments out of 6 for this mold to do and I'm going to X3 MU1 as soon as this is one finished. I would go back sooner but I'm so deep into it right now I would be a little bit more of a pain to switch then deal with it for hofully today. Maybe I'm missing something but I have done a few of these and never had this many issues before. All of this just add to the pucker factor went you walk out to the machine and right now I'm just puckered out. In case anybody is wondering if we have vericut or something, we do not but we are in the process of getting it. This issue just made it even easier to sell to the boss man. I would would put in some suggestion on what mastercam should do. But, that has been covored many times in the last few days. I am just basic venting.

Thanks left coast lefty. I guess I should have searched the form before posting but, I ready this thing about everyday. That one must have slipped by. Again thanks

Goldorak, posting something on her for me is a last resort not the first thing I do when something goes buggy on me. I have tried everything from differant computers to restarting the computer to restarting mastercam I think there is a bug. I finially got it to work but I think it just works when it wants too. Nice to know I not crazy left coast lefty