Assuming it was not the work piece itself vibrating, You gotta push through that Tom just twiddle them knobs ... I suggest Feed up Spindle down.

catia. I posted a link yesterday to afree viewer that will open .models for you if you just need to see it.

Assuming you are talking about lathe work ???? For the smaller sizes we use the rough / finish style taps for manual toolroom work and threading bars on the CNC's.

I agree with BC. Have used it, it works. I think there is also a baking process you can do to decontaminate the macor. We had problems with finger prints and had to solvent clean and bake. I sort of like the sacraficial block idea.

Welcome ... "Tada" reminds me of Windows 3.11 startup

I wasn't being a smart a$$ Heavy, I am a poor ba$tard with only an independent 4th axis so I have to to these things the old fasioned way. I am doing a helical cam as we speak.

I'm with John ... or type in one line of code at the control

Recieved this this morning and thought it was relavent to this thread. Texas Straight Talk Ron Paul (R-Texas) Does the WTO Serve Our Interests? May 16, 2005 Last week I had an opportunity to present the case against US membership in the World Trade Organization at a seminar in Washington. Later this summer Congress will have a similar opportunity to raise objections about the WTO when several colleagues and I bring a resolution to the House floor seeking the wholesale withdrawal of the US from the organization. The World Trade Organization by its own admission is not just about trade. According to the WTO website, liberalizing trade actually takes a back seat to its more activist ambitions, such as “development”-- a euphemism for wealth-transfers from rich nations to poor nations. Likewise, their own website promises that, “In the WTO, commercial interests do not take priority over environmental protection.” In 1994 the WTO created the Trade and Environment Committee to bring “environmental and sustainable development issues into the mainstream of WTO work.” What does this mean? It would not take much imagination to tie any environmental issue to trade and thus invite WTO meddling. What about the Kyoto Accords, the international agreement that aims to solve the supposed problem of global warming? Clearly the Kyoto Accords, to which the United States has not agreed, will affect world trade. Will this be an open door for the WTO to act as enforcer toward the United States and other countries that refuse to sign Kyoto? Two leading UN observers, Henry Lamb of Sovereignty International and Cathie Adams of Texas Eagle Forum, have reported that the WTO is widely recognized as the enforcement tool of choice for the Kyoto treaty. Even Newt Gingrich, a supporter of American membership in the WTO, recognized in 1994 that far more than trade rules were at stake: quote: I am just saying that we need to be honest about the fact that we are transferring from the United States at a practical level significant authority to a new organization. This is a transformational moment. I would feel better if the people who favor this would just be honest about the scale of change.... This is not just another trade agreement. This is adopting something which twice, once in the 1940s and once in the 1950s, the U.S. Congress rejected. I am not even saying that we should reject it; I, in fact, lean toward it. But I think we have to be very careful, because it is a very big transfer of power. In reality, the WTO is the third leg of the globalists’ plan for a one-world, centrally-managed economic system. The intention behind the creation of the WTO was to have a third institution to handle the trade side of international economic cooperation, joining two institutions created by Bretton Woods, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. For the United States to give up any bit of its sovereignty to these unelected and unaccountable organizations is economic suicide. International organizations can never “manage” trade better than it naturally occurs in a true free market of goods and services. At best, WTO acts as a meddling middleman, taking a cut for unnecessary services provided. At worst, it forces the United States to change its domestic laws in ways that seriously harm our economy and our sovereignty. Economist Murray Rothbard said it best: You don’t need a treaty to have free trade. Governments and quasi-government bodies like the WTO can only politicize and interfere with the natural flow of goods and services across borders. When we cede even a fraction of our sovereignty to an organization like the WTO, we can hardly hope to become more prosperous or more free.

Three, I can't recall cutting "pure" tungsten other than perhaps cutting off a hunk of a heavy metal boring bar once ??? However The binder in Carbide is tungsten and I think the bigger problem with the carbides is the actual carbide particles. If it were me I would figure on wire cutting, but contact my Charmilles Tech guy to be sure. Sorry I can't offer more.

Robk, sprocket geometry differs from gears so the Gear chook won't do it.

Rick are you exporting out of Model Mode or Layout Mode ? I have not seen this, but I do all my exporting out of Model Mode in Cadkey In CK19, I use the "One pass" translator.

protectionism or Supposed Free Trade CAFTA - Son Of NAFTA More on CAFTA CAFTA Video More on CAFTA

What they said .... Welcome.

Sorry I can't help. On the machines I programmed with W axiz, they set W on the floor. Welcome to the forum though.

Saw these recently. Havent tried them but take a look at the "MA" Series. http://www.dataflute.com/docs/dfad0105.pdf

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That post needs you to use 2 lines and arc as the lead in type in that situation. Try this: Dont draw the lead in line just create a point at the start point and chain it. Email me I might have some other options for you.

You could write custom drill cycles in your post that would take input from the available fields on the custome parameters page. The field names are controled by the .txt file associated with your .pst.

I think it is the effect of functional gaging designed for a full thread. Because you have removed so much of the thread you have reduced the "effective" pitch diameter seen by the functional gage. Think of a Diamond Pin vs. a Full Diameter Round Pin. oops ... I see you got an answer I am too slow

Use Toolpaths > Circle Paths > Thread MIll Climb cut (RH - start from bottom on internal threads, top for external threads)

I agree with above ... If you can do a manual secondary operation look a microstop countersink tool. http://www.gouletaircraft.com/PDF/prod/micro.pdf Short of that, the only way to get close would be some pretty elaborate fixturing to force the topsurface against work stops which would only be an option for high production I would think. ±.002 on dia is ±.001 on depth

Steve, I don't have Maintenenece, but what is different about that chook than using analyze > edit and changing the point type ? Just curious. Also, while we are on the subject, is there an easy way to select one point when you have multiple cooincident points ?

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Welcome to the Forum, What Version are you using 9.0 or 9.1 ?

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