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Is your HAAS a UMC five axis ?
if so your post should be outputting G254 For DWO control and this allows you it create the planes where ever you like. You should literally be able to use solid face plane creation and just leave the plane at that origin. This makes programming much easier to understand when looking back and the the cut depth numbers make more sense relative to the plane origin.
Time for a new computer build, primarily for mastercam and some solid works, possibly running vericut in the future. I know I could search the forum and find some good info but with tech changing so fast I figured best to ask in a seperate post. I’m a high level multi axis programmer but no computer geek so all suggestions welcome. Have already sourced a Nvidia Quadro RTX 4000 graphics card at a sale and I’m leaning towards a Intel i9 12k chip. Any thing else that is a “must” for this system ?
Anyone else seeing issues with X+ not opening in chrome since an update to chrome a few days ago. It appears to be how the link is handling the file name as it is breaking the link into separate page links at each space so chrome then can't see the file as it is saved to the x+ folder as one file as per always.
What are peoples thoughts on the new "tool tabs" that appear in the ribbon bar when pre-selecting geometry.
For myself it seems like I will have to relearn where all the functions are for them to be efficient !
I like time based intervals as i usually have a fair idea of how long a cutter or tip will last but not a lot of idea on the cut length it will obtain.
As the title suggests I'm looking for opinions on Iscar multi-master shanks , Tungsten heavy metal vs Carbide at longish overhangs.
Is carbide more rigid but tungsten better damped ?
Had this error constantly on opti tool paths on one of our systems here but not the other. Spent months chasing it with CNC software. In the end I fluked apon the source of the problem. It was the trend micro internet security and the guy running the system that it worked fine on had disabled it for some reason. Anyway worth checking you internet security.
I have machined a lot of grade 2 over the years but never grade 5, from uncle google it looks like it has more than twice the tensile strength of grade 2. Anyone care to share any insights into machining it , good or bad. Thanks
yip solid carbide multi flute for side milling or feed mill for end milling, or Kennametal solid ceramic if you want to get fancy, personally haven't used one just seen them !
Stop stirring Mike !!
I am doing this as a favor to another company who can't justify the expense of buying the post through our re-seller and it has also been a good learning curve for me. Have made a lot of post mods myself and they are pretty happy with how it is working so far.
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