for those interested, this is what we are going with: http://www.rolanddg.com/product/3d/dental/dwx-30/index.html http://www.rolanddg.com/product/3d/dental/dwx-50/index.html using this companies software for resizing, scanning crowns, abutments, bridges, etc... and then use mastercam to program them.

97 views and no comments? nobody has any kind of examples?

hello all.....looking for some real-world swiss type parts. if anyone has any to share, please post back here. thank you.

maybe get with whomever developed your post and have them walk you thru how to use it. there are multiple ways to use dual heads.

using a slaved head, you only need to program one part in mastercam. you already know the distance between the heads, so set up your parts on your table accordingly.

a customer of mine is and i am currently working on a deal with a dentist and his cerex machine. what are your questions?

the mpmaster horizontal post is already set up like this. it is free, use it.

maybe we can get Verisurf to hook us up with a free tool that will give us section views......

custom drill cycle.

another option needed is to create points/lines on inside or outside of cylinder. maybe we can do a gotomeeting tomorrow. email me and let me know if you can and what time is good for you. this will also be a company that verisurf as a whole may thrive at. amazing stuff and technology at this company and brilliant people to work with.

i will see if i can share it. proprietary stuff. you know the deal.

did a demo this past week with mike rosa and keith butsgy. i tried to use the hole axis and it "almost" worked perfectly. couple of things: the part came from proe in two half's. 100+ holes total. problem is, the engineer designed one side and then mirrored the other half, thus reversing the normals by reversing the normals on one half, hole axis put lines going the wrong way need to option to flip normals on the fly and we need an option to mask on a specific hole size last item, one hole never came out. it did not "point to center" like the some of the holes did and was not in a standard planes like the remaining holes. it was at a compound angle and never worked i know this is a freebie, so if what i am asking for is not going to happen, dont worry about it.

i recommend all of my customers use solidbox. they have been absolutely amazing with my customers that have purchased them so far.

for custom tools, you will have to draw the holder in with the tool for machine sim to work.

very nice. make sure that you send your speeds/feeds/depth of cut, step over, material, end mill info, etc.... to chris rizzo so he can update the data base.

i have had nothing but good performance from the hybrid path:

dude.....you have no idea. i will send you a message on FB. you would not believe the "joys" i have had this morning with tech support/post that i have NO control over....aaarrrrggggg. i am truly the hydrant today.....

thanks for the kick in the butt fellas: fmt T 7 toolno #Tool number fmt P 7 toolno2 #M98 turret callout [ toolno = t$ toolno2 = toolno + 90000 pbld, n$, "M98", *toolno2, e$ ] N101 T0101 M98 P90001 G50 S3600 G97 S153 M03 thanks again guys. been one of those days.

this is what establishes the T on the first line: toolno = t$ * 100 + tloffno$

hello all.....i am modifying a haas toolroom lathe post for a customer. they have a 8 station turret on this machine and need to call a sub program to change tools. i have set this up once before, but today and i am drawing a complete blank as to what i did. what i need: G00 G54 T101 M98 P90001 - P value needs to match called up tool number G50 S1100 G96 S250 M03 what i get now: N101 T0101 M98 T0101 G50 S3600 G97 S153 M03 G96 S200 what i have done to the post: [ t$ = p$ toolno = p$ * 9000 pbld, n$, "M98", *toolno, e$ ] using the mplmaster for this. any thoughts?

on some machines, this is called grinding. one way to do it is create spiral geometry at the pitch you want and then use a 2d contour path to follow the spiral. another is to use 5ax parallel to curve with spiral motion and 4 ax output.

mark.....have you tried the X+ setup sheet i sent you. it will save you all this trouble.

with X5 in the multiaxis samples folder, there is a human head file that you can 3ax machine.

for specific areas like that, you may want to use the pattern tool path. you will need an outside boundary that just covers the specific areas and a partial chain of what you actually want to cut.

what you consider a lot of tweaking may not be that bad at all to some of the people that help on this forum. i keep all of my 3/4ax post for customers up to date, no later than one version back. post your "tweaks" that you like and check the responses. you may be amazed at how much is already built into the stock mpmaster posts.