Good Day, ------------------------------------------- Why do you want to ramp from a point?? ------------------------------------------- Which kind of ramp are you talking about... I believe all ramps plunge the face of the tool into material...a hole would not help much Its usually better to have an endmill plunge at a hole, down in Z that way the center-cutting part of the endmill doesn't take the strain, even if the hole is smaller. I usually drill 3/4 or 1. for same size rougher, then rapid plunge in the hole and rough a entire level in the time it takes to ramp to the same level. then I rapid to the plunge hole down to the next depth cut and instantly start roughing. Can anyone ramp plunge at 1200 IPM...??? 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, Im not a great fan of ramp, it takes to long and it kills endmills. When you use entry ramp, In V9, use align ramp with entry point...I usually use a drilled hole to start (Circle toolpaths,starthole) . Why do you want to ramp from a point?? 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, Easy. I thing you left some steps out...is this V9.1 Or V8 or which. 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, Rekd, Thanks, I will check that... Teh..., Still learnin' 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, Thanks Steve ,I would still like to use QR.. SO, Go d/l Mozilla Firebird...? Rekd, Teh, need accronym savyness... pretty good at millitary ones. 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, I tried using back button, and the quick reply window was empty...there is a check box to fix that...? 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, Has any one done this I type out my reply to a post, and because of the new reply setup, I have hit reply instead of ADD reply, and I lose everything Wow thats quite something 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, Code breaker is right, this is a drive icon telling you to get more ram or a new computer Live update is in that corner, but is yellow or all blank white during multi task @ startup....when auto live update occurs HTH 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, _____________________________________________ Is this how stagetool works..?? _____________________________________________ Hacked this one through, "stagetool=1" and moved "M6" To following line. Thanks Trev...Again...like a charm 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, Trev I also need, after T6 M6 to pre-call the next tool, and if I need to use stagetool funtion how do I get this to work : T6 M6 G0G90G54X...Y... S...M3 G43 H..Z...T7 <- need this sometime before G91 X...Y... so mach dosnt wait for T7 to X...Y... load. G91G28 Z0 M9 M1 N7 <- T7 flag T7 <- also need this M6 If the T7 call is in front of the M6 it takes a long time to wait for the random access toolchanger to load the arm with T7 Is this how stagetool works..?? 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, These old Mori(s) have random axis toolchangers, need to call tool first, then M6 on next line I belive I need to access stagetool.?? 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, Sounds like April, You FOOL(s)...? March release isn't even out 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 ----------------- [ 04-01-2004, 10:21 AM: Message edited by: CNCme ]

Good Day, +1 James...shorter the better +1 JL I also feel an od # of flutes produces less harmonics in the finish ...3 or 5 flutes 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, MayDay, Thats interesting...Data flutes for finishing only...??? 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, MM, Most, if not all corn rnders, are not standard, and they are not full 90 deg. arcs unless they are custom made . pilots are a little extended with a 1 deg. flare ... but I can see with small ( .02 rads), you gotta be close... HTH 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, MM, All I do is specify the pilot diam. and seems to work ok (pilot being the bottom of the radius...or the minor diam ) then verify. Most corner rounders have common pilots. 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, Thanks guys, im still learning, and thanks again for your help 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, Steve, why is this post set to do this 3 axis move seems like it could cause problems 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, Sounds good to me...just need a little time to try it. You da man...Thanks again 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, ________________________________________________ Does the XY rapid first before negative Z rapid. The Z positive rapids before XY. ------------------------------------------------ What if all z rapids are positive?? 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, I am machining castings and the fixturing cant stand to have any 3 axis rapid moves 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, I have posted a file 3_axis_rapid.zip 1 tool with 2 opps. between op1 and opp2 the rapid move has x/y/z ( position ) move which could cause a crash. I have tried many combinations and I would like an x/y rapid with the Z on the next line...seems simple. V9.1 SP2 - mpfan stock post 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, Bucket, The only place you will find the Blue path below, is on part radius and chamfers... try control type comp. and see the diff.. 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, In lathe, the blue path, when computer compensation type is used, shows below the geometry ( thoretical sharp point - no tool nose radius ) If you switch to control type compensation, it removes the shift for the tool nose radius and puts the thoretical sharp point right on the geometry. I believe this is how machinist used to program before cam systems came about. 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, JCLM Do you need to plunge into material this way...are you limited on tools in tool magazin.?? 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------