Good Day,

Just invest in a duel monitor video card,

thats the balls.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

X Beta Site

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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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

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Good Day,

Is it legal to open 2 sessions of MC on the same

computer?

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

X Beta Site

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N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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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

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Good Day,

+1 Cbly

The break-thru on hard matl. will destroy most

drills...If anything peck the last break-thru @

small amounts.

In my case, I drill for endmill entry, so a minimal break-thru will do it, so an endmill

will not to have to centercut break-thru.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good Day,

Quote:From webby @emastercam

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If you maintenance contract has expired prior to January, then you will not be able to run Mastercam.

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Is this true...you will not be able to run

mastercam?????????

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

X Beta Site

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

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Good Day,

Quote:

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It doesn't seem real that he would say do it, just because.

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I have many bosses who would do the wrong thing

just to be right.(not)

Frank,

just do the work and it will be new knowledge

for you...I have spent many hours learning (practicing) on production time, and using

double-triple the time, so I would benefit

and the next time program faster, and maybe

this is the only way to give your boss what

he wants...and you will become more proficiant.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

X Beta Site

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,

Quote:

________________________________________________

It doesn't seem real that he would say do it, just because.

------------------------------------------------

I have many bosses who would do the wrong thing

just to be right.(not)

Frank,

just do the work and it will be new knowledge

for you...I have spent many hours learning (practicing) on production time, and using

double-triple the time, so I would benefit

and the next time program faster, and maybe

this is the only way to give your boss what

he wants...and you will become more proficiant.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

X Beta Site

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

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Good Day,

Actually, try any other post, and if you dont have

any other posts.......then install

more posts from your MC CD.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

X Beta Site

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

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Good Day,

Frank...our time is never wasted here.

I LEARN something new here every day.

Typical owner, everything is a five minute job.

Maybe if you get enough knowledge from these

good people on this forum...you can look for

another boss with more realistic outlook.

Best of luck

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

X Beta Site

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

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Good Day Frank,

I dont think you want to mix metric programming

and inch. First of all do you have metric endmills and/or metric tool holders.

The easyest way is to draw all dimensions as shown (keeping in mind that mastercam is based

on units.) then inspect the drawing to the metric

drawing. then Xform - scale - to english.

note:

Some machines need parameter change to switch to

metric. (Not just a G-code)

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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 have also found HSS endmills to have a sharper

edge than carbide.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO"

And coolant and chips are like the enemy

Under your boots as you advance in the

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Good Day,

George,

It is very easy, mouse on one side, keyboard in the middle, and spaceball on the other side. If you are right handed, it will not take long for you to pick up spaceball on the left.

Don't try to use the same hand for mouse and

spaceball.

HTH

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good Day,

I believe for work stations, Win2K is more stable

than Win Xp.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

X Beta Site

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

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Good Day,

If there is not much room, you might want to

blow out the holes before tapping.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good Day,

If you hold ALT key and press V, It will

show the level of your version.??

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good mornin',

We used to use 9930...I hope it has been upgraded

Try Castrol Ausol AU-39, no smell for 3 years

Tramp oil rejection very good, an all purpose fluid.

Do not use biocide, it gets rid of smell for a day

and when it returns, its bad. The best Biocide is

to ad fresh coolant every day. DONT let operator

add only water, and use a refractometer to check

mixture .

HTH

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good mornin',

Most coolants require, ( the newer ones ) to

use de-ionized water. ( which nobody has )

The hard water ( heavy minerals ) is the problem.

Also skimmer wheeles work good...must keep

oil from covering coolant ( Tupperware affect )

Also run coolant every day to airate (add air).

bacteria has an easy time forming when not circulated.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

X Beta Site

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

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Good Morn,

Try to use the original disk and...

You should call your reseller...he can help you.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good Day,

I believe color 10 is a product of the DWG conv.

I always get color 10 on solids and edge curves.

but im not 100%

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good Eve,

Level to earth is going to be good as long

as the machine isnt on a hill.

Important:

Spindle/Table tram

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good Eve,

Mplfan should be ok for a haas lathe

I use this all the time

and mpfan for mill...haas is very FANUC.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good Eve,

Do you want to drill with an endmill?

and whats the material, and how thick

too many varibles

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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Good Eve,

If your machine has 6 or more leveling pads

3 to 4 could be used for tramming the spindle

to table.

So use the previous described level,(to earth) then check maintenance book to see if the casting that supports the spindle can be flexed to

improve spindle to table tram.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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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

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Good Eve Jay,

I went to IE Explorer - tools - internet options

- advenced tab - restore defaults button... not

sure which default was checked or unchecked.

Both here and beta FTP are working now...

Thanks guys

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO"

And coolant and chips are like the enemy

Under your boots as you advance in the

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Good Eve,

You need solids add-on in order to edit a solid.

If you move the hole, you can still use that

geometry for chaining or a drill geometry.

The best way is to have the hole moved in UG

and then (Import parasolid and )use the good geometry.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO"

And coolant and chips are like the enemy

Under your boots as you advance in the

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Good Day notso,

Do you have solids??

I dont think UG brings in history tree for solids.

You might be moving the edges and not the surface/

solid.

Tony G

CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH

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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

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