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I create a point entity in the center of the circle. Choose the point as your geometry. This will make the pitch diameter active. Enter your major thread diameter and go. I like to take .01 or so off my major thread diameter so I can creep up on it. Or use cutter comp as Colin suggested.

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The Haas would be a dream machine for me at this stage! The selling point to the boss would be if I could cut our turbo compressor wheels on it also. I imagine it fully capable. Thanks for the info Saipem.

We are thinking of getting a machine for digitizing and machining ports on cylinder heads. We need at least 40 inch travel in the X axis. Any information or input from anyone would be a big help. Thanks

The machine is a Fadal 5020 with a CNC-88HS control with 4 Mb memory and an A,B rotary axis. Control is in Format 2. We installed a Calmotion USBCNC-FAD (USB Disk Key reader) on the machine to load programs to the memory. This reader has DNC capabilities. I have a old turbine program to run on the machine. The last two subprograms are to large to fit in the control memory. I have tried to DNC the prog. by using a subroutine instead of a subprogram. Didn't work. I got message ( TO MANY CONSECUTIVE NON-MOTION BLOCKS ). When I try it as a subprogram call, I get a (SUBROUTINE DOES NOT EXIST) message. If anyone has any expierience with this situation, any imput would be helpful Thanks Here is a sample program were I tried to use Subroutine instead of Subprograms. I cut most of the movements out of the sub to reduce the size. % O0837 L0400 M63 M61 G90 G00 X-4.7272 Y2.9286 A10.71 B83.864 G94 G01 Z2.8715 F80. G01 X-4.7708 Y2.8077 Z2.7943 F30. G93 X-4.7712 Y2.8051 Z2.7941 A-10.709 B-83.861 F11298.3 X-4.7716 Y2.8025 Z2.7939 A-10.708 B-83.858 X-4.773 Y2.7933 Z2.7935 A-10.705 B-83.846 F3194.26 X-4.7785 Y2.7608 Z2.7918 A-10.692 B-83.806 F902.29 X-6.5605 Y.0242 Z1.3055 X-6.5692 Y.0223 Z1.2521 X-6.5736 Y.0215 Z1.2255 X-6.5758 Y.0212 Z1.2121 X-6.5778 Y.0209 Z1.2004 X-6.5777 Z1.3004 G00 Z9.00 M63 M61 A0 B-0. M17 M30 G90 G00 G40 G80 G17 E0 X-10.00 Y0 E1 (1/8 DIA CARBIDE BALL MILL - FINISHER) G90 G00 X-10.00 Y0 T03 M06 S7200 M03 M63 M61 G90 G00 X-8.00 Y0 Z9.00 H03 M08 E1 L401 E2 L401 E3 L401 E4 L401 E5 L401 E6 L401 E7 L401 E8 L401 E9 L401 E10 L401 G90 G00 Z9.00 M09 H0 Z0 M19 G00 X-10.00 Y10.00 M02 %

Same here w/ X4 MU3. I was also loosing containment boundries. I was told it was a bug. I take it it was not fixed in X5.

We have the same Calmotion usb retro here also. Works great for transfering and DNC. The problem I have is I can't DNC if using sub programs. We have a 5th axis and do turbine wheels for turbo chargers on it. The programs even when using subs are 8mb and up. We have 6mb upgrade in the control. Hawley have you tried using subs with your Calmotion?

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I don't think there is anyway to group operations. What I do is select the geometry for the first operation, right click on the geomerty tab in the Ops manager and drag it into the geomerty tab in the next opp. It will ask you to add, replace, or cancel. Add or replace for each operation, then regenerate all dirty operations .

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