No. I just at lost my Chit I think it’s called a conniption.

Mostly that they crashed it hard a few times before I got here and the wire threader is a poor design and very unreliable. Some days it’s just possessed with a demon. I kicked it yesterday and pretty sure I heard it moan in agony.

Sorry Rocket but if I owned this machine I’d take a sledgehammer to it.

I’d advise against getting a Makino Wedm with split V guides. It sucks and Fanuc is superior in every aspect. I hate the Makino.

I’m pretty comfortable running the Makino now. Never heard of OEM.

Yeah. Going to work one more year full time.

No. Just loaded Esprit for Makino wedm 14 day trial to show owner what it can do. If he doesn’t buy it then it’s a deal breaker and I’ll quit. Fikus sucks and no way I’ll use it.

Yes. I worked 8 days there Gonna try 1 more year at new place If they don’t get me Esprit though I won’t stay. They need someone badly to get their Wires running correctly. They have a Mill mentality in the Wire and that’s not the way to run them. Hopefully he will buy this new Fanuc to help. He has too many molds to build for one machine. And Ficus sucks as a cam software. He also said he would buy me some work holding stuff.

I’m getting a little better on it. Today was my first full day. Pretty sure owner is buying a new Fanuc. They need at least 2 machines. Want me to do 3 jobs currently and only so much you can do. Typical for mold shops.

I’m going to have some questions for those familiar with Makino Wedm. it’s a Heat U6 machine.

I was just being sarcastic, but I did think I had a better computer than I really have.

Well now I'm just depressed.

I think everything except my software was already loaded in Of course this computer is just for wire and drawing.

Downer. I know they paid almost $5000 for it.

I have a Xeon Silver 4216 CPU @2.10 GHz. Is that good?

In Esprit you can just set a max and min diameter after windowing entire contour and it will find all the hole sizes for you. Comes in handy if you have 60 .375 EJ pin holes and 40 .125 holes. Especially on solid models.

I'm lost as to what you want to accomplish. For this wire contour, whats with the no comp and no lead in and out. Seems if your power library is correct, you just set your parameters for number of passes, comp and it should work and post out your offsets and power numbers Mits use. Mits and Agies are a PIA .

I prefer using 4 axis or taper most of the time as you can control the size of the top and bottom of your part from the table surface.

Best way to not have any lead in or out comp is just hand edit G41,G42 to G40. You will still need a thread and cut point but it wont call up comp. I can't make out your drawing. What make WEDM are you using? Some wires allow you to thread on an angle if its not too severe, or you can use single block- dry run to set your wire to a programmed angle and let it go from there. Also, you can save your parameters to any thing you wish. Like 2 pass,4 pass, taper, 4 axis and have all the parameters already set. It's been awhile since I have used MC WIRE.

Create your own lead in geometry.

Can you run a reamer thru them ?

I have CPM 10V. Not too bad soft.

Racking my brain as to why you would want to do it that way.

I could see much difference in that flat area so my file is the tapered part. With that much angle make sure you use half hard wire and reduce your tension and use big flush cups.

There is some screwy stuff I think in that file. Here is another DXF file that I think is correct. Only thing is that its a cross section of the part where the bottom is at Z.750 and the top is at Z1.500. It doesn't matter as long as you have your program plane set at Z.750 and whatever the Charmilles needs for the top at Z1.500. The angle is the same. I only gave you the wireframe. Make sure that the radius is what you want. I used .172015 R. Esprit was creating an isometric radius because it was interpreting 2 radius. One was something like .154 R. If that is the one you need then filet it and create new branch lines connecting them. 10-1245-134-ins WIRE 4 TH AXIS OLD VER.dxf