All of my routers and subs are after the M30 code but you can't see any difference on the machine.

We keep our programs on a server that lives in the IT department. Each machine has a computer with a pre-mapped folder to pull programs from. The software we use to load the programs is WS_FTP Professional-Ipswitch. I think we paid $40 for each install.

I'm glad to hear you're running internal subs. Just the reduced time in programming multiple parts pays for itself.

The week after Thanksgiving I'll be training to program and run a Okuma MA-8000H horizontal. That will bring me to 10 HMC's, 1mill-turn and training for our second mill-turn.

Jake

What kind of fixtures are you using?

We're running the main program and the subs directly from the Data Server with no issues. (Fanuc 16i)

It appears that ± isn't in the post. I'm sure I would have tried it in my inspection program. "DPRNT[***DISTANCE*", *drl_prm7$, [if drl_prm6$, "*TOL*+/-*", <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< *drl_prm6$], "***]", e$ ********************************PRINT*********************************** spaces$ = 0 "POPEN", e$ if s_popen_flg = 0, [ s_popen, e$ s_popen_flg = 1 ] "DPRNT[]", e$ "DPRNT[-----------------------------------------------------------]", e$ "DPRNT[***", s_sav_comment , "***]", e$ "DPRNT[***DISTANCE*", *drl_prm7$, [if drl_prm6$, "*TOL*+/-*", <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< *drl_prm6$], "***]", e$ "DPRNT[***RESULTS***DISTANCE*#138[24]***]", e$ "DPRNT[-----------------------------------------------------------]", e$ "DPRNT[]", e$ # "PCLOS", e$ spaces$ = sav_spc # ************************************************************************

Precision Components now makes dual contact holders. I have two 1/2" X 9" long CAT50 DC holders coming in.

Just like all things in life, you get out what you put in. If you go through the work for one tool and you use it ten times in one year then nine of those times you just added a tool in a few seconds. With every tool you add you become that much more efficient. Right now (after around 17 years) I might add 5 tools a month and they are usually tools from another material that will need speeds, feeds and pecks or no pecks changes if it's a drill.

Here's my tool library list. The aluminum folder has over 1100 tools.

Keep working them crazy^millman. You catch more bugs than anyone else and we appreciate it.

Is Force always on or can you use it intermittently throughout the program file? Does it work with drilling?

To save what you modified is add a Manual Entry under your tool path, copy your modified tool path into the Manual Entry then turn the Manual Entry off (ghost it out). If you have to regenerate the path your modification is still there to load it back in.

I'm hoping it will help them. They're currently running a similar prototype part and are having a bad time with it and the programmer has been sick for the last couple days.

I'm trying a process to make it easier on the operators to hold dimensions on an extrusion that has crazy tolerances. It's somewhat similar what's above but I'm doing it on purpose. KITAMURA HX800iLTGA 709-801-604.docx

Try changing your Top of Stock to absolute and make the other three depths relative to the Top of Stock.

You're programming this part and complaining about adjusting a tool length and having to re-verify it? How much $$$ would be lost if you didn't verify it and it crashed?

We make some 303 stainless heat sinks and we slot the fins in with a 1/8" high feed mill. We run it at 15000 rpm at 335 ipm. If our doc is more than .005" we will get early breakage. I'm verifying one right now.

Can you add a macro or a canned text coded to do what you want just before the M50 (whatever that is)? I know nothing about Haas other than they have less than average F1 cars.

We use Weiler and BRM (Brush Research Manufacturing) both in our machines and manually in mostly aluminum and some stainless. Both are good products.

The MP was very strong in V9. In V9 I wrote routers that virtually inverted and rotated the cutting paths as needed , checked if a part position was or wasn't being used before moving to that location and would check the next positions until it found another part or got to the end, made the next tool change and started the procedure all over again.

I first wrote MACRO B into my post in 2002 (V9) and added probe inspection in X5. I only program one part and use routers (currently 37) in my post to run up to 64 parts per pallet that can be turned on or off individually or as a group.

Most all of the tool and die shops in this area have five axis machines and I do understand for most machining businesses it's the way of the future but we create and manufacture our own products so we can control the design of our parts to the point that purchasing 5 axis milling machines would just add cost to our customers. We do have five axis lathes and mill-turns.

Right now we have 11 HMC's in our shop with no.12 coming in October. After 21 years of Hmc's we've had to make maybe 5 "five axis fixtures" and I think all of those parts are obsolete.