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quote: ...the B axis was prone to swivelling around 180 In post builder you can setup a tcl routine accessed from a UDE that can manipulate the mom_out_angle_pos() variable, really helps alot in gaining control of that little "nasty-ism" Jg
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I don't know the answer to your question, but I'd like to know where the one for V9 is, I've never heard of it AND I was just looking for something similar yesterday. thanks, Jg
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Peter, If the inserts are wearing to quickly it is probably due to depth of cut notching, you need to continuously vary the DOC or if the part and machine are capable, plunge perpendicular to the contour using full depth of cut (button insert only) thanks, Jg
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gcode, that what I'm looking to do, I have the machine side of it, now I'm looking for the post side of it. James, I can get this out of the Mpgen5x using a table/table combo, i need it on a head/head combo, thats one of the area's I'm looking to tweak. thanks for the replies, Jg
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Crazy, +1 to that, I'm going to conact my dealer first, they have helped me alot in the past, I thought I'd check here first on the off chance that its not possible. thanks for the reply, Jg
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Jame, what I meant was, does this allow arcs (g2,G3) when the axis are at odd angles, I have been playing around with the settings, and it seems to do that. I just have to figure out the "correct" settings for my situation. thanks, Jg
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thanks MayDay thats kinda what I thought
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thoughts, comments?
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anyone have any thoughts?
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Hi All, what is the purpose of using "top_map" in a 5 axis post? does it allow arc output in non- orthogonal planes ? thanks, J.g.
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Hi All, I use a modified (by me) version of mpgen5ax, this post does not support subroutines out of the box, can sub support be added? is it a difficult thing to do? if it can be done and is not brain surgery, would a good place to start be looking at say mpmaster sub support, or would it be easier to add 5ax to a existing 4 ax post? thanks for the help Jg
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thanks Islander, I am filtering, and I'm aware of the "C" hook, (as a matter of fact I've used that back in the 90's to section the length and z stroke, it worked great) the parts are airfoils 23" long x 2.5 high, and I have 335k of memory available, currently I'm using surface contour or water line to keep the Z axis "locked" and produce favorable conditions for filtering to produce arc's, I can produce the part, now I'm trying to balance "time to cut" (step down) vs "finish" (surface tolerence,filtering tolerence and step down) vs "fit" (335k of memory). thanks again, Jg
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thanks for the replies, drip feeding did not work out well, we keep emptying the buffer, the control's rs232 is very slow, even at 9600 baud, I'm told it is due to the overhead of the CRAPS ~ err~ C.A.P.S. system it has on board. I was thinking it could be expanded further because the manual for the machine has a option for 1.5 Mb memory, maybe something got mixed up in the translation. thanks again, Jg.
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Hi All, We have a mid 80's Hitachi Seiki HC 500 Horz, iniatially it had 32k of memory, we upped it to 512k (11M fanuc) the service dept say's that is the max we can go, I find it hard to believe, anyone have any experience with this machine/control combo and upgrading memory? thanks for the help, Jg
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Qmp, first off keep in mind that I am a hack 'n slash with posts, second backup your original, third use at your own risk. I added the statewments to the "plinout" and "pcirout" before the code that is already there (no ", e" thanks, Jg
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I usually get a F.0 on flowline tool paths and/or when using tang line entry under gap settings, In V9's post I added if feed = 0, !feed, however in X I had to modify it to if feed <= .001, !feed Jg
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Pip, I D/L'd your part, how do you want to cut the it? od to id? id to od? plunge? thanks, Jg
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millingman, if you "cut" will result in more than 1 body, then you have a dis-joint body, following petes advice should fix the issue. Jg
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Haas_guy, are they (you) using sldprt or slddrw files? if they (you) are using slddrw files I would look "upstream" for the problem. just my .02 Jg
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every one seems to have a different approach of backing up files, might as well toss mine in. I do a file, save, highlight my file, cntrl c, cntrl v at various times. Jg
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quote: IF[#1EQ#2]GOTO[#1+1000] Maybe try IF[#1EQ#2]GOTO[[#1]+1000] Jg
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quote: Filters remove points I need it to add points to the program. quote: The difference is, I had control over the along distance of the toolpath. Now it is controled by a curvature tolerance. This is where I think the problem is. If I had a option to use along distance instead of the curvature tolerance, I think the problem would go away. Depending on the geometry, maybe 5ax multisurf with a locked vertical vector (3ax output) would help.(you can set the distance in both the along and across direction) Thanks, Jg
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MillingMan, when you do the contour do you set the type to chamfer and set the values? (left side of the page) this has worked very nice for me. thanks, Jg
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The line .1 long created a crossing chain, which for some reason (I haven't figured out yet)is designated as the area to machine so by default the other two are not machined, since the tool is to large... no toolpath. thanks Jg.