Has anyone else milled nickel sulfamate? We are an electroforming shop and it requires we 2nd op machining a lot of plated parts. Mostly small parts. .375 in diameter and about the same tall. Looking for cutter types, sfm, ipt. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Wow! Thanks a lot guys. I will let you know how it goes.

Yeah i knew that was coming

I want to clean up all the stuff in my post. Not sure if some of this can be done. This is the generic haas 5 axis rotary post that I'm trying to edit. 1st: I would like to remove date , time, mcx file, nc file, and material from notes. 2nd: I would like to remove all all the details from my tool list and just leave a cutter description and tool number, also be done at tool changes. 3rd: I would like it if my manual entry didn't split my 1st tool description and my toolpath comment. If possible I would like for it to be after my tool list 4th: I would like to get rid of the brake going on and off at each tool change and only go on and off during rotation. If i can get rid of any of this it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for any help.

Never mind. Found it in an older post about the same topic. It was in the post and not the machine definition. brk_mv_head : 1 #Break the 5 axis moves to remove gouge brk_max_ang : 180 #'brk_mv_head' maximum angle move, applied if chordal_ "was 1 changed to 180" Fixed the issue

Its just 2d contours. Not a surface program. I think its a machine definition or a post issue.

My post wants to do a bunch of b axis moves instead of just rotating 90 degrees. It only happens when the rotation is with the same tool. If I force a tool change then it works fine. attaching a picture of the posted problem. Running mastercam 2017 - haas vf2- tr series 5 axis trunnion mill.

There was a bug in the installer. It has been fixed and is working fine FYI

I can get the non English version to work but it seems like the English version isn't extracting the files.

Does any one here use it for mastercam 2017? I installed it and added it to my toolbar but cannot get it to run the tool list sheet

Thanks. I will look for that. If I was running one part like this I wouldn't bother with multiple offsets. But its easier to control during a run of 100 parts or so.

I have a few toolpaths with G54 and a few with G55. I have the planes set to a G55. I also go into my operations manager and set them there as well. When I post them together, G54 and G55, all toolpaths post as G54. When posted separately, they post correctly with the designated offset. No idea why. Generic haas 5 axis trunnion post, Mastercam X9.

Thats what I wanted to do. But I guess I'm just going to let it do its thing. Just thought there might of been a way to program just the B axis to move.

Be careful defaulting to this type of toolpath. If you use a single point threadmill all will be good and you won't notice anything. But using a multi-flute threadmill, this will create a 1/4 turn of flat threads. I made this mistake already. That is how I know.

I originally tried doing this. I will post it up to show what I'm getting.