Hi i have tried at first from home using explorer (then updated it) and firefox. Than at work. At home my ISP is SKY so unless there is issues ther i dont know, i will try my daughters MAC in a bit. Cheers Chrtis

I have just tried my works PC and i still cannot connect to the ftp site having followed the instructions???

Hi thank you all for your help, i have tried the ftp site but cannot conect to it, i will see if i can attach it to a web page?

Hi thanks for the reply. No I have not machined impellers before, it is simply to be used for stirring/mixing so at the stage nothing is fixed. My problem is I can draw it, see it, bocken it down to individual faces and independantly pick these faces. However any of the routines i have tried take out some or all of the blades i think with the flank of the tool. The only routine i can get to work is the 4 axis rotary however there is no simple means to rough out and it does plunges which take out the tool (final piece to be machined out of incone). You mention unrolling, i looked at one of the sample files "roll die" and that would do it so I generated what I thought would be the 2d geometry and imputed the paramters however this does not work either. Can i unroll the solid model? Sorry for all the questions but this is seriously doing my head in now!!!! I bought the software from my buget expecting work to pay for the training 1 year on and still waiting, everything else seems logical!! Cheers Chris M

Hi, I am new to this forum so please excuse me if this has already been answered. I am trying to machine a simple 2 blade helical impella on a 3 +1 machine. I have tried various options on our X4 software, we have the 5-axis add on. But when I do the simulation it either gouges or machine straight though part of it on the simulation. The final component is to be machined from inconel so I cannot afford heavy cuts. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. The original model was drawn using inventor put that seemed difficult to handle, I then redrew it in solidworks saving as an iges file and that seems to help a little, I can now seperate surfaces. I just dont seem to be able to get it to do what I want. If it helps I could post an image or the file. Cheers Chris M