Eric, Thanks to the "Brotherhood" (circle) you have answered another question..peace

Okay fellows, I want to post ops 5 thru 9 and MC ax me if i want to POST ALL and i sez NO. For some reason it leaves out ops 8 and 9. i did copy and paste op 5 to make ops 8 and 9. does this have anything to do with it not posting? The green checks disappear from 8 and 9 ops when prompted to POST ALL. What am i missing???? Thanks in advance

Hardmill, my thoughts exactly!! The GM finally got the owner to order the parts from okuma. Should be running agian by Monday.

the internal splines are jacked up as well as the shaft.

Splines on the hydralic pump motor shaft are gone and machine is down. This machine is the heartbeat of the shop. Very expensive from Okuma around 5g's. Gonna try and fix it ourselves before dropping the cash. Anyone know where i can find good used parts and get them here quickly.

Zoober you've got mail. thx G Quickmike, I thought of that

I have a horizontal machine with a Haas rotary table and chuck. I do hundreds of different parts, lengths and diameters. I do face work as well as radial work on all parts. The problem I'm having is that we have about 25 sets of soft jaws we use for these parts and they may be machined to suit a particular part. When i use MC to create a toolpath everything is good until the next person comes in behind me and cuts those jaws up which will change my lengths for my saved program. I need MC to calculate from center of Haas to face of part no matter what jaws I'm using. Can i put a calculation in the post. There is a constant of 9.1558 from center of Haas to face of chuck. Somehow i need to add jaw length and part length without having to manipulate the MCX file everytime??? mpmaster post....Thought i would try here first maybe not get laughed at quite as bad

That was it Thad, Thanks.

I tried the swept2R chook and yes there it was "one way" but i have know idea what happened to the toolpath after regen. Does not follow the same toolpath as zig-zag (at all). Just trying to learn a little bit about this option.

oops i forgot x4

Is the zig zag toolpath the only option for this feature? looking for one way toolpath

"Also, where should I get a good starting point for tapping depth." Another thing you want to consider on depth is coast of the machine (VMC). We have old machines so we have to watch that.

# Generate string for spindle, lathe sm04 : "M04" #Spindle reverse - no coolant sm05 : "M05" #Spindle off - no coolant sm03 : "M03" #Spindle forward - no coolant sm14 : "M14" #Spindle reverse - coolant sm05c : "M05" #Spindle off - coolant sm13 : "M13" #Spindle forward - coolant spindle_l : "" #Target string fstrsel sm14 g_spdir spindle_l 6 -1 (JTG 7:29 AM 11/19/2009) This is what i have. I changed "fstrsel sm04 to fstrsel sm14" . I tried what you suggested and it still did not output in my first op.

This post does not output m14 in the first op??? Works fine in every op after that not a post guru. using x4

Thx Ted