Good Day,

Dont complicate this...

Just select a slot mill or create one

and create undercut diam

and circlemill from center and then verify

the drill

and slotmill and you will see...

no surface need

Tony G.

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

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Good Day,

aha24

I have been to training at both Macdac, and

Services4automation, and Services4automation

has the latest equiptment and the, IMHO, THE

most knowledgeable staff of the 2. Its well

worth the 3 mile ride down the road.

Tony G.

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

_______________________________________________

...purchase with our distributor to include

this post.

_______________________________________________

Who might that Distributor be...have you talked

to them latley...?

I have found most resellers timely when asked,

or have logical answers for project completion.

have you inquired ?, and if you have, are they

not taking care of your needs???

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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And coolant and chips are like the enemy

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Good Day,

WOW-ZA....TRUELY AWSOME

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

That would make you 10...( kidding? )

My daughter is 12, she is using MC.

In her 7Th grade, they have a class called

Tech art, they are using somthing called

Auto-sketch. The MC is helping her alot.

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

26 now, or then ( in 1990 )

Tony G

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

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Good Day,

Mike

What kind of disks do you.... sell?

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

What is this demo...is it a product

by CNC software?

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

When you open Mastercam It will say in the

V9 splash screen that it is SP1...

and I think when you run SP2 upgrade

If SP1 is not in it will error out.

Tony G

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N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

Well Bruce, those 30,149 Corrupt entities

were left behind

I have learned again, Its a wounderful feeling

Thank you +1 +1 +1 Bruce, Jay, and Thad, I love

that multiple head theory.

This forum is amaizing

Tony G.

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

I made a couple of these parts and they have

all had geometry problems. I dont need these

lines...I am only drilling the 7000 .036 diam.

I want to move all the slots and rect. windows

to a level so I can contour, chain, window

all slots and rect. windows, if these line frags

cant be filtered from the other lines they will

also be chained in the window contour.

Tony G.

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

But I cant just remove the geometry that is

associated with only the .036 diam.s?

( 7000 Diam.s )

Tony G.

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

_________________________________________

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Good Day,

Be careful about installing or rolling back

Ver 9 . or having 9.0 and 9.1 on same

box...If you uninstall one (V9) it will

corrupt the other and a reinstall would

run very slow.

You will also need the solidworks add-on

to be able to open sldprt 2004.

Tony G.

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

You need to upgrade to 9.1 SP2,

the sldprt might be higher version

than you can open.

If you have a legal version in V9

you should qualify, and have recieved, all V9

upgrades up to V9.1 SP2

Tony G.

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

I have posted a file: skin_012.zip, on FTP IN

MC9 folder

If you look at the 7000 .036 diam. holes,

each one consists of a 180 deg arc and 2 almost

90 deg arcs and the rest is 2 small lines.

( an iges or a dxf conversion. )

Also many various slots and fillet corner

rectangles. I can change levels by mask

arc, radius, so I can put all arcs on their

own levels for machining. But when I try to

change levels of the lines ( slots ) so I can

chain, contour, by window (so I dont have to chain one by one ) I get all those little

distorted .036 diam. lines that came with

the change level line...the mask does not

filter line lengths...how can I bring the

good slot line geometry and filter or delete

the, .036 diam. junk grometry.

Thanks in advance

Tony G.

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

_________________________________________

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Good Day,

Danny...get creative, make it happen

Like my boss used to say...

(Waitco Machine, Devens MA )

Bill Waite, used to say after I was encountering

problems with a 1.5 meg NC code file...that

I created.

Whats a matter, ITS just a couple numbers..!!!

J/K

Tony G.

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

Does Anyone, after completing a program (complete thru NC code ), go back and grind

and hack through rough or not perfect areas

To improve or find better methods?

I understand, in this competitive world we

have created for ourselves, that it is not

possible to spend time, that is so-called

"non-productive", to "play" or research

the many combinations of a particular module.

Some of the programs I write are just fragments

of other programs and become passages and stepping stones to seeking greater Knowledge in MasterCam.

Contracting for 20 to 30 manufacturing facilities

I have found a wealth of unlimited information

to fuel my imagination, AND, also to fuel all the great minds that I encounter here, on this forum, every day.

The Science Of Mastercam, as I call it, is not

so much about THE money anymore...

Even though we still need to make money to live,

Its about helping "US" "YOU" "ME" to help

us ALL Understand.

I am humbled to be a part of IT all.

Tony G.

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

Many things I learned in machining, as most

people on this forum, Have been self taught.

Start by removing the comment from the " O "

word line...and then the % sign...

I never type the prog # before I hit Read,

Execute,...I let the machine pick-up

the Prog # from the Program...and then

try something else...and when you find the right

combination, you will never forget.

Hack it out...Dawg

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

Prog looks OK... how much reads in @ control?

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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And coolant and chips are like the enemy

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Good Day,

Can you put the NC file on the FTP site

to review, with NC file name of course.

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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And coolant and chips are like the enemy

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Good Day,

In a true Thread mill...

As the tool goes up from the bottom,

8 arcs are usually used per turn, every arc

has a different arc center.

I believe thelix uses straight line moves,

or can it output arcs?? I thought thelix

was prompt driven...I believe if you use

geometry, it is considered a 3D toolpath

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

The file Is X_AXIS_ROT.zip on FTP

THanks in Adv.

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

VMC to 0 is for horizontal

The royary table is mounted at the back

of the mill table. Tombstone pointing out...

is this rotating around the Y axis

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

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Good Day,

I am getting a error posting, trying to mill a

feature from a side Cplane, and trying to produce an "B90" output... I have changed rot_on_x to 2,

(about the Y ) do I need anything else...

( 9.1 SP2 uning Mpfan )

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

_________________________________________

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Good Day,

Win Xp or W2k does not have an issue with black

cursor with GF MX...Olny Win 98 and some ME

I had GF MX series with ME for years and

had no 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

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