Good Day,

I have fixed the problem, (not quite )

But I am able to open these DXF's

Support or Qc will not like this one.

I have always kept 2 "rolled back"

or non upgraded versions in Mastercam. From a fresh install 9.1 SP2 cd, with no updates, they can be opened

I think these files were created with an older

Ver. of ACAD.

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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Good Day,

Have you tried Parasolid file , *X_T ?

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 also had created SAT files, but did not

open...is this a bug from inventor converted

DXF's, like Mike siad...

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,

Jay

I didnt get the full wire in the mc9, alot of

junk...much missing.

do you agree

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,

Jay

I sent you one...It does open a dialog box

for solids (I have solids module )

then asks to erase sat...then nothing...?

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,

Cheap coolant..normal stuff

I'm confused

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 recieved some dxf files...couldn't

open with file converters.

It gives error "operation unsucessful"...

then 2nd error, "erase intermediate SAT file"

yes or no answer required...either answer

fails to produce sucessful conversion.

Is it possible they tried to save a

3D model in a dxf(which will not support

3D.)

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

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

[ 03-03-2004, 08:26 PM: Message edited by: CNCme ]

Good Day,

Still cant find Tutorial...Is it in the

17 Mb download

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,

IMHO

After further review of this Information,

It seems very basic:

carbidedepot.com

Thank you

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 Peter,

I went to carbidepot.com, and didnt see

anything about threading...??

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 also at a loss about this shimming'

you shimmed the 60 deg...or the center line

to the part. I have made many threads up to

12 inch and never exp. this problem.

What kind of gage did you have...and was

it national thread form series or not

negative or positive insert...

single or cresting insert, there are many

Possibilities.

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 think "Fences" are for bridgeports,

Bandsaws, and carpentry.

And bad neighbors

just JOKIN'

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,

If you could??...clamp a 18 inch part in an

8" vise how would you shift to get the other

5" out of only 12 travel.

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,

IF you had a sub-plate, you could put a shifted

pattern of holes 5.1 inches apart in the Y

dir. an use precision pins to align after

machining the first 12 inches worth in Y,

then shift to the next pattern and and machine

the remaining 5 inches...Easy

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,

What kinda matl. is finkle.?.?.More info

Please

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

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

Good Day,

+1 again gcode

The ramp arc/line will not violate the pocket.

Actually this is a good thing...I believe

in ver. 4 it would not compensate, and If small enough, It would junk a part.( not visualy

noticable without zoom )

At least now It will cause an alarm and stop the program.(On the machine tool...G41 G3or G2 )

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,

Dump The ATI...Fast

Nvida quadro fx-500

+1 gcode...again

Been working FLAWLESSLY

Even on my 20 foot monitor...LOL

I had trouble for over a year

BUT,...NO more

Can you say crystal clear

PATRIOTS ...BABY

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,

American Tool in

Chicopee MA

Good Grinders...Rich Duplesses

Tell him - Larry "TonyG" Garibaldi

sent you...thats my real name

PATRIOTS ...BABY

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,

You say a boss @ 100 IPM, and only

out O round .0003... and how do you measure

a .0003 flat??

IMHO.... It might be, and usually is, a scallop

@ each quadrant... are you looking at this

With the hubble telescope... If your backlash

comp is overcompensating it would cause such

a condition.

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,

The Man has 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,

You can also use Meta-cut utility in MC

that will backptot a tool path.

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,

WOW 21'... 21"

thats worse than .001 ... 1.000 offset

going towords a lathe chuck......or

Maybe not

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,

Well, IMHO, when I Do in house training,

I have my client supply drawings that they

wiil set-up and run on their machinery. That

way, they learn, and get instant application

by programming, setup, and running a real part.

kind of a double pay-back. They get training

and a part program they can run and relate back

to as a template (sample)(tutor).

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,

Well I have 2- 21' sony 500 PS's for now

I will have to start somewhere with flat

By the way, I just finished test w/ W2K SP4

WOWZA

Another +1, gcode

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,

And NO...

________________________________

Axis indicator and WCS indicator

disapear when shaded

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

That was the KILLER for me...

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

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