On 6/4/2022 at 1:52 AM, haroldm9123 said:

Hello all,

i was trying to find some help with something i have been working with for many years but just had a thought that maybe i have been doing all wrong the entire time. While it has worked it might not have been correct.

So....this is the situation.

When i program a 5 axis part i sometimes have to create a random plane to machine from.  My problem is that if i don't use zero, zero, zero for all of the XYZ values, our Hass machine has problems running this.

For example. In (pic A) the part origin is the front left corner. I want to machine at an angle the back right corner (pic B). Unless i put this at zero,zero,zero (pic C) the Hass will alarm out. 

 

I'm sure 'im doing something wrong, however i was self taught many years ago haha

 

Any and all help would be much appreciated. I look forward to learning something, Thank you!!

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 ?

On 4/14/2022 at 12:43 AM, meatychips said:

You're going to want to implement a UV light on the dirty tank and potentially an ozone injector in line with the return to your filters.  

Careful with the ozone though as I believe it can be quite corrosive in some situations. Not an expert but do your home work. 

5 minutes ago, mwearne said:

I have an active link in a blog post here...
https://blog.caminstructor.com/whats-the-best-computer-for-mastercam

 

The main link in this thread is dead. There is a re-posting of the link but I forget what page its on. 

Much appreciated, Thank you

Link to the Benchmark 3.0 file appears broken ?

Kennametal 4 land drills, B977, B978 etc, will help to stabilize the drill when going into the cross hole, might help .

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.

3d for me in mastercam 2019

Can anyone tell me how we go about getting a license for x+ 2020 ?

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 !

use lock feed rates in config file

5 hours ago, mkd said:

agreed

Production/automation focused question:

Curious what people think is a better tool life management method for roughing copious amounts of Ti with optipath :

1.  use depth control and successive operations with different tools.

2. use inspection interval TIME inside one operation that creates a pullout/M01

 

Cons:

      1.  The probelms with depth control is you dont have much control on cutting time and depths get wonky where axial depth is not ideal

      2.  probably have to manually edit NC file for subsequent tools

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. 

31 minutes ago, 5th Axis CGI said:

You pretty much answered your own question. Yes.

Sweet thanks Ron, was a good guess then 

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

Perfect, Thanks Sir

Excuse my ignorance but I can't for the life of me remember how to find what Mastercam software version is insalled, eg update 1,2 etc

Thanks

You must be a valuable employee to have come up with that remote working arrangement. Good Luck. 

You have to use the partial edge selection and it will only chamfer planer faces, so it won't run up those fillets

seeing the same here with a 1mm roundover tool, but am confident its just graphical, looks mint in Vericut

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 !

Yip I could be keen to understand my fumbling with posts better !

13 hours ago, Greg Williams said:

Ya need to do a bit of editing first get the ptailstock correct

ptailstock$      #NCI code = 904 available variables:
      #tlstck_on, stck_init_z, stck_final_z
      pheader$
      pmisc_op_comment
      if toolchng <> two, ptoolend$
      toolend_flag = zero  #Do not execute ptoolend again after xfer
      #pbld, n$, "M01", e$
      !spaces$
      spaces$ = zero
      if startflg,
            [
             bld = 1
             pbld, no_spc$, n$, "M157", e$
             pbld, no_spc$, n$, "G195", "SP=1", e$
             m157_flg = 1
             bld = 0
            ]     
      bld = 1
      if prv_spaces$ > zero, " ", e$
      if tlstck_on$ = zero, pbld, *sm26 " (RETRACT TAILSTOCK)", e$
      if tlstck_on$ = one, pbld, *sm25, " (ENGAGE TAILSTOCK)", e$
      if prv_spaces$ > zero, " ", e$
      bld = 0
      spaces$ = prv_spaces$
      pbld, n$, "M01", e$

 

Then add the misopflag to the header, Take a look at Generic Fanuc 4X MT_Lathe.pst

 

pheader$         #Start of file      
    if miscopflag = zero,
      [
      pheader_custom    
      !spaces$
      spaces$ = 0
      if lserial,
                 [
                  "$", sprogname$,".MIN", "%", e$
                  if autodoor, pbld, n$, "M90", e$ 
                  n$, "G270", e$
                  ]
      else, 
           [
            if autodoor, pbld, n$, "M90", e$
            n$, "G270", e$,
            "(", sprogname$,".MIN", ")", e$
            ]   
      n$, "(", "POST REV - 05", ")", e$
      n$, "(DATE - ", date$, ")", e$
      n$, "(TIME - ", time$, ")", e$
      spaces$ = prv_spaces$
      if use_graph, pgraph
      startflg = 1
      miscopflag = one
      if t$ = 0, t$ = 1
      ]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Greg, got it working now 

2 hours ago, Mick said:

Obvious question on my part.... It is an In-House post. Why not ask your reseller, and get them to process the modification through In-House? I'm sure they could action that pretty promptly.

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.