Registration and ongoing maintenece has cost. You can be compliant to the a standard without being certified and registered. If you have significant customers who perform their own audit of your quality system you can be compliant AND have external recognition with a given standard such as ISO 9XXX without actually paying for registration and ongoing costs of maintaining that registration. For example in addition to our AS9100 approvals, we were audited by the government to ISO 9002. They provided us with a certificate that said we were found to be in compliance. This is not the same as certification by the registrar. Some customers insist that vendors are registered others do not. In some markets having the ISO logo with your registration number on your letterhead is good for marketing. Although quality systems are important, as a customer, registration means little to me.

Maybe RH cut LH spiral ? Assume you are cutting in 1 Cut and spiraling out from center and not edge clamping.

Welcome "R" ... Mental Note: Show DBrianB this thread

quote: I think this guys siggy should be Jolly J @ ArtCamPro-R-Us LOL. G, ya sound like a talking doll that keeps getting his string pulled Dejavu all over again.

And as the band plays Oh Canada, the bag-head-homer avatar is raised to the vaulting rafters of eMastercam.com where it shall remain in retirement.

Chris, Best of luck in your new gig. You will be missed. (especially by the guys needing the firefox support

DBrian, Welcome to the forum. The guys must really like you ... you got off easy Seriously there are some real pros in here if you are serious about putting MC through its paces you will likely find this a great resource. Good Luck

If you are traversing the knurl use the beveled face type. Also if you are doing stainless I suggest polished cobalt knurls.

I use the parker catalog tables. Do a search on the forum and you will find a link. I think they also have a CD rom that sort of does what you want. The sizes vary depending on the type of joint you are designing.

Is there something in the EULA that prohibits such a sale

Hey I am getting confused with the Heavy Metal's !

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In addition to the general description John gives to be in compliance with Fed Std H28 surface roughness must be less than: 100 microinch Ra for Cut threads 63 Micro inch Ra for rolled threads I think it's in FED-STD-H28/2B. Edit/ See section 5.5.2 http://assist.daps.dla.mil/quicksearch/bas...nt_number=53604

Gcode and John, I am still slumming with V9.1, no maintenence. I made the decision 2 years ago to stay put at V9.1 and re-evaluate all options at the end of 2006. Changing company needs, other potential competitive products, X unknowns etc. all played into the decision. I have not even gotten an X demo yet. One thing I am curious about is the CAD side of X. How is it compared to 9.1 ? For larger companies or companies with "real" Engineering departments, It is usually one of the big 3 or Solidworks. I, like Gcode do all my design and modeling outside of Mastercam then bring it in for programming only. Usually once I bring the model into MC, I don't do it again. If a change is needed I make it both in MC and in the design file. For smaller companies or companies that are primarily manufacturers, it seems to me that if CNC bolstered the CAD side of the product, they could provide an integrated solution for many customers. Maybe I am over simplifying the task of providing a more complete CAD package, but it sure seems like an obvious oppurtunity to me. I realize that it may not be practical to maintain the kind of development that would put CNC on the leading edge of CAD technology, but if they were to roughly keep step with the state of the art in CAD, I would think there would be many companies like ours that would abandon at least some seats of other products in favor of MC Design seats which would intigrate their design and manufacturing data. As for the comparison of other CAM programs and all that, a huge factor is the type of work you do. For example the OneCNC demo video's *appear* to indicate that it supports 5 axis trunions specifically and the the demo was mostly positioning. If this is the case, there are obvious limitations for more complex work. If your work is all 2 1/2 axis stuff with occasional surfaceing some of the other products that are already windows based and are cheaper are probably not a bad choice. Once those newer programs stabilize their user base though I would expect to see maintenence. The cash flow generated during growth in market share is one thing, but eventually that begins to level out and in order to generate revenue for development, I believe maintenence will become a neccessity for those products too. BTW, although it took a turn toward pissing contest I found this thread very enlightening.

quote: Could always try the Esprit forumLOL @ John

I remember a year or so ago Rek'd teased us all with a screenshot of a multipass "finish" dialog box that had a RPM and Feed Field in it. Turned out he made it up in Visual Basic just to bust stones but it was a good idea then and it is now too.

Cut to major dia here too (from top to bottom on OD's) then mic the threads for comp.

Invasion of the Ausies welcome

Yeah Ron we are on the same page. Most of the parts I have put on this machine are not too complex. I have actually had suprisingly good success with timing with a little careful math. There is about a 100 milisecond delay or so after calling the Mfunction that releases control back to the CNC. Usualy I have only had to use the dwell trick with higher feed rates on plastics.

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quote: I'm guessing it is a "M" code indexer where the angle is specified on a seperate control box, in a seperate program....Corect. Sorry if I wasn't clear before. Normally Mastercam maintains and effective feedrate defined in parameters page. The X feed and A feed are adjusted to maintain the chosed effective feed. With a seperate indexer controller this would mean programming a bunch of steps with varying feedrates. One approach is to tie the indexer into the control and using custom macro B and RS232 have the CNC control actually control the indexer. This is not possible with the CNC in question. Another possibility is a post that post twice. The first time generates the CNC code with Mcodes for indexing and then re-post and generate an indexer program. I am working on this but it is a longer term project for the feeble little CAMmando brain. Since most of the simultaneous 4 axis stuff done on this machine is fairly straightforward, I can usually use a combination of mastercam and manual programming to get what I need. Other jobs are just slight variations on a helix. For these I thoght if I could Fix the rotary feed and let the X axis feed float, it would be a simple solution. Recognizing that the effective feed rate will be at times inefficient depending on how close to a pure circular cut the program gets. I plan on diving into this again this weekend. Thanks Hey Paul I still use your rag tag centerdrill chart.

Just to expand on John's formula, the helix is just the hypotenus of a triangle wrapped around the cylinder. The "Opposite" side is the pitch, The "Adjacent" side is the cirumfrence of the cylinder. Would this be a good time to bump MY QUESTION from last week.

We use Jobboss. What do you mean by "good fit" with mastercam ? Aside for attaching graphics there is no real interoprability with Jobboss. Even attached files have to be viewd by "Auto Vue" which is purchased through Jobboss. That said it is a pretty robust system. We have about 6-10 simultaneous Jobboss users at any one time. It is not the best system if you do mostly repeat work, although they have improved in this area. Jobboss' greatest strength is probably that it allows you to do alot on the fly which makes is a major plus for a job shop environment. It's reporting is very good. We used to use Peach Tree acounting but a few years ago migrated over to using the Jobboss acounting modules.

Is it possible to force a constant rotary feed rate ? I want to generate code for a CNC that will be timed to a seperate HAAS indexer and just pick a feed rate based on the "worst case". For a simple example ... using axis substitution on a one revolution non linear rotary cut I want to program the indexer as one step of 360° at a constant feed rate. I want mastercam to adjust the X axis feed rate as neccessary to follow the geometry. Could one of the post Guru's point me in the right direction ?

Since I am still slumming with 9.1 I don't check out all of these spiffy "X" threads. This however goes down in the CAMmando Book of Classic Threads (CBCT).