I have seen drill routines greatly increase backplot times compared to actual cycle times. Not sure why. I used to use it often in the past to determine cycle times but found that if I backplot everything but drill routines it was more accurate.

Anyone ?

Trying to help out a friend of my brother's. He has one of these lathe's and has somehow got a few parameters screwed up....and guess what....no parameter backup. Anyone got one of these machines and be willing to share a copy of your parameter settings.

Hey Malibu, Got any job vacancies there ? Must be tough in such a beautiful place.

Running X2 MR2 SP1. In older versions of Mastercam when I would run verify I was able to set up my stock size and toggle on "Use last size" and it would always keep them values stored. Now when I use the verify feature, even though I have "Use last size" toggled on I ALWAYS have to reset these values. What am I doing wrong that it will not store and keep these values ?

Always D+Z+ Crazy. Thanks Steve.

Is there a way to eliminate the Y data input box from the ribbon bar for a standard 2 axis lathe ?

Thank you.

Recently went from Version 8 to X MR2. When I create tool path's each one has more info than I care to see. Example Lathe Face (WCS:TOP)(T PLANE LATHE UPPER LEFT(TOP)FACE TO +.010" All I really need to see is LATHE FACE : FACE TO +.010" What do I need to change to keep all this info from appearing in each tool path ?

Mike Gates, Thanks. That appears to have fixed my problem.

Got a Hitachi Seiki. No live tooling no Y axis. Just a simple 2 axis machine. Recently purchased X2 MR2 package. I never need to be in any plane but D+ Z+ to program this machine. I find that after setting this plane as I need it that it will change to another plane. Is there a way to lock this plane in D+ Z+ to keep it from changing to something else ?

I have run a few lathes that allow an E command to control feed for threading. With an F command they were limited to 4 decimal places. Using E allowed 6 decimal place feed rates.

Is there a way to select say the center of the arc as your from point and the origin as the to point. This seemed pretty simple to do in 8. X form translate from center to origin. Are you saying that now i have to create geometry in order to accomplish this task ?

Well we finally upgraded from version 8 to X2 a few days ago. The first part I attempt with X2 is giving me a little trouble. Could someone please tell me how to use the 3d translate feature to get my part to x y z zero from a point it now resides.

On our Hitachi lathe a dwell is accomplished with a G4 command. It needs to be inserted right after the line for movement. Time is controlled with a P value. Example G1 Z-1.0 G4 P1.0 X 1.5 Here the machine will feed to Z-1.0, dwell for one second and then feed to X 1.5 HTH