Machine MasterG thanks so much! We have spent months off and on it's been giving us problems. We did this flush out process and now it takes our code but we did find that if we shut the machine down we lose all the settings. we think it's a battery issue on the boards but no sure. any thoughts on that fix? Thanks, Scott

I posted this on another page in the forum with no response. I thought I would try here too. We have a post file from our reseller that works now after almost a year of effort. Problem is the anilam will only take about 100 lines of code. Usually the anilam has a memory of about 3000 lines of code but for some reason we get an excess digit error when we try to submit lines of code in excess of 95-100 lines. Help

We have a post file from our reseller that works now after almost a year of effort. Problem is the anilam will only take about 100 lines of code. Usually the anilam has a memory of about 3000 lines of code but for some reason we get an excess digit error when we try to submit lines of code in excess of 95-100 lines. Help

any reason I get an excess digit error when sending to the machine? I was sending just fine to the machine yesterday and today I get excess digit error.....

Actually I went and changed the Tool Home Position so that the machine wouldn't go 10" by default to run the program. To reply to your question SAIPEM we have years of CNC experience running HAAS tool room mill equipment. This controller is dated and we don't program it or the HAAS at the machine. We prefer to program at MC and we actually have generated, using Mastercam V9, many G-code programs that allowed us to basically do it all from MC and RS-232 it over to the machine. Now we have a post that is conversational on a machine that is unfamiliar. I've tried so many posts over the last six months that I don't think anything will work. So cut me a little slack here. Here at the VT AOE machine shop, we are unique in that I've got 10 years experience with Solidworks and my boss has 15 years experience programming/machining the HAAS equipment using MC so combined we can design and build/machine anything your mind could scribble on a napkin. But this thing is old as the hills and we have a limited knowledge of getting posts to work on it. As for set up, I can tell you that without a doubt the moves I had in the file and the moves the machine was doing were not coincident. Thanks for the great information and I'll keep working on this and see if it will work.

It read but the file isn't machining the contour properly. It's not even close to machining this simple contour I created as a test. Here is the post file. *T % Dim Abs Tool# 0 Rapid Z 0.0000 X 0.0000 Y 0.0000 Tool# 239 Rapid X 0.0000 Y 0.7500 Rapid Z 0.2500 Rapid Z 0.1000 Line X 0.0000 Y 0.7500 Z-0.1000 Feed 6.4 Line X 0.0000 Y 0.2500 Z-0.1000 Line X 2.9230 Y 0.2500 Z-0.1000 Arc Cw X 3.4230 Y-0.2500 Z-0.1000 XCenter 2.9230 YCenter-0.2500 Line X 3.4230 Y-1.2515 Z-0.1000 Arc Cw X 2.9230 Y-1.7515 Z-0.1000 XCenter 2.9230 YCenter-1.2515 Line X-0.3952 Y-1.7515 Z-0.1000 Line X-0.3952 Y-2.2515 Z-0.1000 Line X-0.3952 Y-2.2515 Z 0.0000 Rapid Z 0.2500 MCode 5 Tool# 0 Rapid Z 0.0000 X 0.0000 Y 0.0000 EndMain % *04-10-10 16:28

FYI The T0 command at the end of the program sends the tool back to Z0. If the T0 command isn’t there, then the control stops with the tool in the part. The machine controller requires a line that says “arc cw” or “arc ccw” in order for it to recognize the x,y locations as arcs versus chamfer. Thanks John. Scott

Hello all, I have posted a message introducing myself once before and nobody responded. I work in the Aerospace Dept. at Virginia Tech and I have been trying get the post files working for our machine for several months. It is close to working. The problem with this post is that the machine isn't picking up an arc command although it is outputting the moves. Also, the T0 command isn't generated in order for the tool to go to Z-0. Any help making this post work would be awesome. Sorry I'm used to posting on digidesign and ford forums where you can ask anything. Thanks for any help that can be provided. Scott Patrick We are running Windows 7, Anilam Crusader Series M controller, Mastercam X4. % T1001 X.25 Z0. T0 Z0 T1 G0 X2.852 Y.95 G0 Z1. G0 Z.1 G1 Z-.05 F10. 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Regarding: quote: Ok guys,The VT aerospace machine shop is in dire need of the post files to operate our Anilam Controller on our milling machine. We are running Windows 7, Anilam Crusader Series M controller, Mastercam X4. I hope someone in the united states is still using this machine and would share your post files with us. Much Appreciated. Scott Patrick -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posts: 4 | From: Blacksburg, va | Registered: Oct 2009 | IP: Logged JParis Moderator Member # 7931 posted 10-01-2010 04:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read the FAQ. You should send this post request to your reseller -------------------- Regards, John "We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln Our Mastercam Reseller has been working for months trying to get us a usable post with no luck. We are getting very frustrated and would like a resolution sometime in this decade...

Ok guys,The VT aerospace machine shop is in dire need of the post files to operate our Anilam Controller on our milling machine. We are running Windows 7, Anilam Crusader Series M controller, Mastercam X4. I hope someone in the united states is still using this machine and would share your post files with us. Much Appreciated. Scott Patrick

correction-we are using version 14. is there a way to take two adjacent surface and make them one surface without doing a blend/fillet command.

Is there any way to select multiple surfaces and have them knit together so that you can machine over them all in one operation? thanks

Hello, I'm new to this forum and look forward to learning some cool tricks for mastercam to help us here at VT's Aerospace machine shop! I'm currently trying to import x,y point data into mastercam to drill a plate. the points are randomized so creating a drill pattern will not work for this part. Any way I can import the x,y data for each drill location into mcam using a xls or csv file? thanks