Good Day, The shift key is used during general selection which defaults to single and window. By depressing the shift key it will allow connected entities to be selected using chain, without changing the default selection type ( single and window ) Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, Thad, Close the session and open a new one...back to small, or am I missing a setting I open and close alot mof files in a day Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, Leonard Paul is right, A haas post is a very basic post, and the one that comes with Mastercam is good. Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, Run HaspX from start menu and view your maint. dates. Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, How about a *.slddrw I think this supports drawing file(s). IGS only supports wireframe,surfaces,,,do you want dimensions?? Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, CanT get the file open dialog to stay at the size I drag it open to when opening a new session. Can I set it to remember the size from the pervious session.(dialog size setting modal?) I wouldnt mind if it open maximized.!! Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, Longer ver. with G1 at both ends. code shown at > G1 X5.7815 Y-4.1801 G3 X5.7746 Y-4.2037 I.0372 J-.0236 X5.7753 Y-4.2113 I.0441 J0. X5.7732 Y-4.2396 I.7054 J-.0645 X5.7892 Y-4.2529 I.0258 J.0148 X5.9656 Y-4.3258 I.1764 J.177 X6.2155 Y-4.0759 I0. J.2499 X6.1468 Y-3.9039 I-.2499 J0. X5.9656 Y-3.8263 I-.1812 J-.1726 X5.7248 Y-4.0081 I0. J-.2502 X5.7181 Y-4.0203 I.0077 J-.0122 X5.7248 Y-4.0325 I.0144 J0. > G2 X5.7756 Y-4.1933 I-.229 J-.1608 > X5.7757 Y-4.1941 I-.2798 J0. G3 X5.8506 Y-4.2688 Z-.5107 I.0749 J.0002 G1 X5.8509 This toolpath is surface high speed horizontal Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, This is actual code that generated a full arc on the machine G2 X5.7756 Y-4.1933 I-.229 J-.1608 X5.7757 Y-4.1941 I-.2798 J0. Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, That Break arcs applies on full arcs. The system can generate arcs smaller than 90 deg even with breaks on. Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good day, OG I am having trouble with a new Fanuc 0ie control on a vert. mill with NC code data of arcs with: G3 X2.3465 Y2.3124 Ixxx jxxx X2.3466 Yxxx Ixxx Jxxx Note : the X or Y value only changes .0001 or .0002 and the machine generates a full circle which violates then part geometry. does not show in backplot or Cimco backplot. I had to switch to "R" NC data This happened about 5 times in 4 programs anyone have this happen? Tony G CNCme Engineering X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, Can someone tell me in the S1000.2 what the .2 does to the RIDGID TAP and in X2 mr1 I get A second speed at the second hole without the .2 like this: G0 G90 E1 X2.5972 Y-4.5 G43 H9 Z.1 M8 G84.1 G99 Z-1.06 R.1 F50. S1000.2 X1.0 S1000 (RESETS BACK WITHOUT .2) X2. X3. G80 Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, BUMP Would viewsheets qualify for windowed viewing? Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good night, Fanuc OM control had an available upgrade with a full key board with more characters. Im not sure about the hot keys mentioned earlier. Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good night, John, You are right about the toolpath crunching... I Rotate between 3 workstations sometimes, mostly 15 to 30 minutes each. AND Would viewsheets qualify for windowed viewing? A new feature in X2 MR1. This allows saving views with different levels and re-calling them instantly by clicking on displayed tabs on the bottom of the graphics area. Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good night, Can you post the file on the FTP site....This makes it easier to diag. Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good night, In that case thats easier..just take your post and file compare it to generic 3 or 4 axis fanuc and you will find teh problem. and or post with the generic fanuc post first to trouble-shoot. Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good night, If your usng a Ver 7 or before post chances you are losing alot of funtionality that ver 9 or better would have. just take a ver 9 or better post and build it like the f'd-up post, its not that hard. You should get a new S code for every operation,even with the same tool. I had posts that I brought along for years and they didnt work after many versions. Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Hows about Ver 4.01 Now Im feeling konfuzed Good night, Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle ------------------------------------------------- [ 01-04-2007, 08:06 PM: Message edited by: CNCme ]

Good Day, Ver 9...... Whats that I dont recall a Ver 9 NO way!!!! If any body likes it so much-they should keep using it,,,,,, and feel very happy and konfuzed Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good evenin', Quote ______________________________________________ To move HoleAxis to a different location copy 1Verisurf.ft ---------------------------------------------- I didnt copy this file first time...now it works I found the verisurf settings icon in the toolbars customize. but how does it work? Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good evenin', First I installed it, but it did not ask which directory to install to, with side by side I have mcamx folder and mcamx2 folder, it installed in mcamx folder. I draged it from this folder to mcamx2 folder. now I get error on starting mcamx2,reading holeaxis.ft "unable to open resource folder" ...verisurfholeaxis.dll Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, Actually need a clock(s) face...dial and numbers Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, The sites I remember were pictures- cars, animals- all lines and arcs ...flat drawings but many in these databases Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, I did a search for a database which I remember on line with free dxf files of basic drawings and shapes and some wireframes to download for possible art projects....that I cannot find? Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------

Good Day, The funtion of filtering is to make xy steping on curved surfaces smooth or rough. By making the xy steping on curved surfaces smoother, it makes the NC code much larger which limits machines with small memories. Then the filtering has the ability to change "xy steping on curved surfaces" into single line arc moves which gives a very smoth apperance. Example, a 40 line xy move on a curve with filter turned on can generate a single G02 or G03 arc move. Tony G CNCme Engineering LLC X Beta Site SO Almost Employed Senior Programmer N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire _________________________________________ End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO" And coolant and chips are like the enemy Under your boots as you advance in the Manufacturing Battle -------------------------------------------------