MrFish
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I believe it is this box, uncheck it.
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Mike your post further up is just a . ?
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Yip you've hit the nail on the head Matthew. We can hold similar tolerances in the land of metric but I didn't want to state that here in fear of the ear bashing we are going to receive from all the haters !!
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I totally agree when you are talking multi axis work with rotaries that emphasise positional inaccuracies . But for 3 axis work we can hold 0.01MM (0.0005") all day long on high accuracy medical instruments and implants. It takes a temperature controlled environment , solid and accurate tool and work holding and quality programmers that know the machines but is very achievable. my 2 cents !
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Yip, and we are in a temperature controlled workshop and still need to do this on critical components. Apparently the new machines are a lot better though. Ours only has a temperature probe on the spindle head where as the new version has 7 of them around the machine ! I'd still go Japanese , Okuma, Matsuura, if it was my money.
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sorry no more than the stock picture in original post.
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For your interest David, I had tried these controls and they did nothing at all to change the cut flow. I have seen this before and I think unless the chaining used is very simple the processing seems to just ignore this or maybe override it .
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Hi Colin Thanks for waking me up. I new about air chain but had not thought to try it. This worked a treat and actually produced a better toolpath than I had on the good side ;-) This forum is one reason Mastercam is so powerful !
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Does anyone have any tricks to control which way the cut flows from , i.e. left to right, right to left I have a part that is symmetrical and has an open end transitioning to a slot. When cutting from the front I get flow from the open end to the slot end which produces good swarf management , but when I cut the same geo from the back I get flow from the slot end to the open end and this leaves a nasty island that wants to get sucked into the cutter and break it !
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Our 5 axis post needed updating by the post writer with the X9 to 2017 change.
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scrap that, just tested again with latest post and worked fine on original op with axis sub
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Not sure why but if you just turn on axis sub with a normal op using standard geo we don't get any axis sub at posting. But if I do it this way we do. May be a post configuration thing .
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We get this to work by creating a dummy operation and saving the back plotted tool path and then using this as the drive geometry for the operation with axis sub turned on and set to 3 axis. Works great in our DMG with C axis table. PM me your email address and I'll send you an example if you need.
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Garr make some good ones and they are cheap too.
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???? don't know wasn't mentioned whether it was unique to single platform.
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Basically get an error where Vericut can't find the inbuilt tool change subroutines in the control files. Work around is to reselect the control files for each operation every time you open the file.
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One issue we are having with loading of the tool change sub programs when doing multiple setups. CGTech have already stated it will be fixed in next patch and supplied a work around for now. Although we are still using 7.4.2 for urgent and complex jobs just to be safe until I have finished testing 8.0
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That's cool as. Now you just have to get someone to fill it with honey for you. Imagine spreading honey on your toast from your own custom aluminium jar each morning
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MCAM 2017 Clamping Device C-HOOK for free!
MrFish replied to Thomas Sprehe from NSI's topic in Industrial Forum
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We used to drill a hole similar except 1 1/2" dia (actually 40mm as I'm in land of metric) that needed a "cupped" bottom and hand dressed a HSS drill with the ball on it. It actually drilled really well, held size and had good swarf flow. Was in a lathe so was effectively self centring but might be worth a try. Hardest part was grinding the centre of the drill tip.
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Lathe X9 part disappearing in verify after cut off
MrFish replied to civiceg's topic in Industrial Forum
That's what its supposed to do, it's in your parts catcher -
Good spotting Goooose, hadn't picked the depth issue as I just did a quick and dirty toolpath as I would approach it. Can't get full depth either , weird ! Totally agree that MC has some catching up in certain areas and I would especially like to see it become more stock aware like a lot of other software, especially now that a lot of the programming is done straight from solid models.
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It is possible to reverse a group of chains in each toolpath by using windows shift selection and right click reverse. This helps, but you still have to open each toolpath.
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see my example, no extra creation , just smart solid face selection.
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Similar to JoshC but I would use 3D area clearance, just choose the faces you want to machine, set to outside approach and push go. Simple toolpath with over runs at each end and 3o seconds to program straight from the solid with no extra wireframe geo needed. temp.mcx-9
