Thanks guys, that worked. Appreciate the help.

Yes, there are ICON's located in this directory but they do not look familiar.

Our IT guy just gave me a different computer and reloaded MCAM8.1, and I lost my buttons. They are there but only numbered, and the tool tip still shows up. Does anyone know how to recover these buttons along the top? Thanks

Micheal, Sorry it took so long to reply. Glenville is just outside Schenectady, I guess its considered Scotia-Glenville? And where exactly is Corning, NY?

Yes, I have done that, but I guess I'm looking for that one shot document. Hey, you know how it is, someone is always looking to increase productivity and streamline as much as possible. Thanks

The question is in regards to the (Mill V8.1) exporting of tool information located by right clicking over a selected list of tools. ie; NC Utils, Def. Tools, Current, Select-All, Right-Click, Doc file... Is there any way to modify this so that I can export the information I really need? I only need to eliminate the last 2 columns (Corner Radius and Radius Type) and replace those with one column (Manufacturer's tool code). This would be a nice quick, small tool list, without much of the fuss of edits! Thanks

Anyone? I'm having a very difficult time trying to face- groove this part, with a custom tool, please advise. I will send the .mc8 file with details. [ 03-15-2002, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: nickz ]

FR-4 Glass Filled Epoxy: If anyone may have some experience with machining this type of material, it would be greatly appreciated for some tips, do's/don'ts, advice, etc. This stuff is nasty!

Thank you, I will check it out.

No Y-axis, No Polar-Interpolation, What you see in my first forum posted message is exactly what I get from my (modified) post-processor. The M98 call for P9002 is where the C-axis engagement is located. This macro was created by the Applications Engineer when the machine was installed. [ 09-17-2001: Message edited by: nickz ]

Millturn, The machine is a Hitachi Seiki HT25R with a SEICOS LIII control. The post is a generic Fanuc post with C-axis capability. It is post processor problem. I believe it has something to do with modal settings? [ 09-17-2001: Message edited by: nickz ]

The control is a Hitachi Seiki SEICOS LIII, and we run feed/min for the C-axis contour. Works great, just need one feed call, not on every line.

I am having a problem with the output of C-Axis Face-Contour operation. The feedrate is output on every single line and is also different, example: T0101(ENGRAVER) M98P9002(MILL MODE) G00X30.086Z1. C26.362 G97S2500M13 G01Z-.15F150. <---- only needed here X29.93C26.32F80. X29.781C26.226F179.9 X29.642C26.081F275.5 X29.52C25.891F363.5 X29.417C25.66F440.6 X29.337C25.395F503.7 X29.282C25.101F550.7 X29.255C24.792F579.2 etc. Any advise? Thank you. [ 09-13-2001: Message edited by: nickz ]

Read several discussions about this in other forums and sounds like a damn good idea, how about VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)?? [ 09-10-2001: Message edited by: nickz ]

The machine does not have a Y-axis, only X,Z, and C with live tooling. We are using FPM (Metric, MM) and the machine is a Hitachi Seiki HT25R with a Seiki-Seicos LIII controller. The operation that is giving me a hard time is a C-axis Face Contour. I am engraving a part number on the face of the part. It works well but I have to edit the G-code (strip out all the excess feedrates, different start-up G-codes, and include other G/M codes) because its the only post that comes even close to what the controller and operator expect. I have tried with several different places (CNC, my reseller, etc.) looking for a post processor for this controller, doesn't exist, its just a very obscure machine.