Good Day, The conv. is ok, but at some point you will have something a little more complex that conv. cant do. If its an old machine, there should be some prog.s in the mach memory that you could match to an existing post for heidenhain. 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 -------------------------------------------------- [ 01-04-2005, 10:55 AM: Message edited by: CNCme ]

Good Eve, ...anything to do with Xp Sp2 security? WOW...pretty soon these computers will HAVE us. I feel THE MATRIX Its working now...Thanks guys 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 Eve, I have always been able to get to your FTP and have been on beta site also It times out and says I might not have permission ...anything to do with Xp Sp2 security? 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 Eve, Most machines come with some test programs or the manuals have program formats in them. Is this a new machine?? 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 Eve, Any trouble with FTP...cant get on...Beta also 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 Paul, Do you think the wire dia does not start at 90 deg? (Quadrant) Or does it need to be 2 peices? V9.1 sp2 - Xp Pro Tony G CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH (100% MC ) 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, When I try to sweep this spring with the .225 dia It gives an error : "Path curve is not smooth within 5 deg" File is: fertilizer spring_.mc9 in solid folder 2D drawing is on level 1 3D level 2 V9.1 sp2 - Xp Pro Tony G CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH (100% MC ) 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, I am running a Cincinatti arrow 500 w/acromatic 2100 control. I am not used to Using G92, which is Pre work shift ( G54's ) code, used before controls had multiple fixture offsets. The operator before me uses G92.1 to origin the part zero. ( X and Y zero ). I am having trouble removing all the register presets that occur with this zero setting method. All offset register values have been zero'd It seems there still some values throwing the machine off. Is anyone using this method and can tell me how to return to using the normal fixture or work offsets Thank you in adv. Tony G CNCiT Precision Machine - Hudson,NH (100% MC ) 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 -------------------------------------------------- [ 07-07-2004, 09:42 PM: Message edited by: CNCme ]

Good Day, _____________________________________ Operator error on this post Tony G 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, _____________________________________ Thanks Mur, alot of good info...I did see the open faces. I was hoping that QC will refine solids/converters to make this work "you" have done more automatic. Thanks again...need more time to play (non productive work ). Play=study of MC to help american Mfg. Tony G 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, _____________________________________ First I saved the IGES a MC9...? ------------------------------------- Murlin, I tried your method, and I dont think I did it correctly...oh, did you use mar0304? I did file - convert - iges - read , then saved it as an mc9 Reopened the MC9 Then I did file - convert - iges - write, back to an IGES. Then I did file - convert - iges - read, opened the file. Then tried to solidify ( using .005 )and still got error and sheets. ???? Tony G 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, The sad truth is the problem with the model to begin with is the inabillity of the engineer to build the model correctly . I talk to engineeers all the time and they tell them about the problems that I find in their models. They all admit that they dont know how to use their cad tool fully . Some of them dont even know that their systems can convert IGES or what the extentions the parent file is. I also admit that I dont know everything about MC, but if I find a problem or a method I dont fully understand, I will seek every bit of info to learn. And I thank all of you people that have supplied this new info for me . Tony G 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, Sorry 'bout the hour, I am posting a zip (IGS ) e77230_9ver32mach...tried to use analyze, and it said it trimed 10 or so untrimed surfs. Still not a closed solid...only sheets take a look in mc9 folder Thanks in Adv. Tony G 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 -------------------------------------------------- [ 06-18-2004, 02:23 AM: Message edited by: CNCme ]

Good Day, I have learned today that create a solid from a surface, in V9, will only work if the surface model has no errors. ( or gaps ? ).I created a solid from a surface that I was able to do without errors. But, the solid was only a sheet body, not a true solid solid. I deal with other companies converted files all the time and they seem always to have either drawing or converting errors, or both. Or is there a method I can use in V9 that I might be missing to repair or heal these models for an error free solid from surface . Tony G 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, Is the edge curve have a varying Z value? If you squash this geom. it will not give this error...or do you use plane mask in chaining options? I have not installed mar0304, and im glad will wait for the disk and all bugs... Tony G 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, Ceramic is good, But if you dont use ceramics Your best bet is the old faithful VN series carbides with finishing chipbreaker. Chris and Phills advice is also good, dont feed to slow, and you will get a good finish. HTH Tony G 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, I believe the MG chipbreaker is more for roughing I might try MP or MP-K. The book says MG-UF for finish cuts down to .005 HTH Tony G 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, Felix, It might not be feed / speed might Be insert type...what are you using? Tony G 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, James, As we have all shown, the customer drives the the configuration of these cells. Everyones configuration will be diff. I believe all of us could write books about this subject. John, Sounds like you have the right idea on your own unique cell system. Thanks for everyones informations Tony G 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, James, I am very happy on your accomplishment...but, this cell, does it only make one part? Can you switch to another part with with very little effort and also get the same results. If a piece of equipment in the cell goes down ( a major piece ) could you re-create the cell in another location without disturbing production. These are all facets of manufacturing flexibility. The more facets the more brilliant the stone, And the harder to produce…but, the most rewarding. At a large die cast job shop I have helped build 30 cells that are "almost" totally interchangeable. The key word is "almost". The word flexible has its varying degree. The truth is, they will never be totally interchangeable. J, the answer is the book might not help you unless you use the theory " the more you make, the better cells will work" HTH Tony G 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, I think there will be many views, but I have to Side with chris on this one. IMHO I have been involved with cell Mfg for over 15 years, maybe before it was created...or refined, or is it yet.? The decline in large order (quantity) type Jobs has made it hard to justify the capital Investment for not only the base cnc machine, But all the outside equipment to complete The cell. And in order to be efficiently “Flexible” the more base machines or cells the better. This reflects back to the lesser Or smaller “large revenue “ jobs that fuel your cells. I haven’t spoke to Chris on this but if he Has worked on this 1/3 as long as I have, He will agree And I also think the books dont tell the "Hole" story Tony G 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, Many people I know love it...and for THEE one best reason... NO crazy managers, owners, and anyone important just nice and Quiet. You couldnt me on it Tony G 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, Owner/manager: Thats a 5 minute job...a mini-program and didnt the new machine come with cnc programs..!?! ___________________________________________ OMM = Owner/Manager Mentality ___________________________________________ Programmer: We need another fixture for the job !! Owner/manager: Can't you use a piece of wood with a couple of dowel pins. ____________________________________________ Owner/Manager Mentality...it will not change Tony G 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, I have put this file in the Mc9 folder and if need you could send E-mail Thanks, again in advance 9.1 SP2 Mill Level 2, Lathe, Solids Tony G 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, Taking a look ahead at mondays progs and Ive posted a zip named grip.zip, that quite frankly I am having trouble finding how and where to start. can you guys take a look and see....using 9.1 SP2 mill Level 2...and quite possible one might need lathe and some crazy holding devices Thanks in advance Tony G 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 --------------------------------------------------