Hi All, i might be dreaming but i thought you could have say a round dia representing your stock and an inner shape of say a square and mastercam would start with the outside shape and gradually machine round and round till it gets to the inner square shape all the while keeping the tool in contact with the workpiece.. Regards

Ok will do.. i need curves running the length of the red surface.. Thanks

Hi All, Whats the easiest way to put 3 equally spaced curves down the length of a spiral auger surface? Thanks

Going for direct drive spindle 12k with the 4th axis fully integrated.

Hi all, Does anyone out there have any experience with Max Mill Machining centres? We are considering a new purchase of the HQM 1670 coupled with a Detron 4th Axis. Any thoughts good or otherwise would be appreciated!

Hi all, this is doing my head in.. when you unroll a profile what angle do you use to get it to its flattened out position? 90, 180 or 270? thanks

Hi All, im trying to get to the bottom of whats going on with the converwsational program Navimill on our Mitsubishi Controller.. Its only been 10 years of on and off trying to work out whats going on.. In this sample program it should be drilling 4 holes on a 100 pcd around xy0. Ive tryed running it but it says program not found .. i believe its for some reason maybe calling a sub program #9110 and its not even in my machines memory.. I assume its the same for prog #9120 im not even sure if its in the right format to run as is or what. Any thoughts would be fantastic! (NAVI-INIT) G65P9110A1.001B1.001K10.M1Q0T0.0000V2.054 (/NAVI) (NAVI-HOLE-DRILL-CIR) G65P9120A0.B5.C1.004D10.E0.F2000.H1.001I100.K3.M1R1.000S100T1.0000W4X0.Y0.Z0. (/NAVI) (NAVI-FIN) G65P9190 M#158 (/NAVI) %

Awesome ,Time to start designing! Thanks

Hi All, not sure if this is the right place to post but im wanting to design and cnc machine of course an awesome looking PC case from ally and perspex Problem is coming up with the internal layout for mounting points ect.. Do any col designs out there exist? Im sure anodized or brushed all would look fantastic.. Any thoughts? regards

Hi All, im not sure whats going on but i used to be able to open a file with one click using file,get then just double click on file and it would open Now i have to select file then move mouse to where it says open .. Also noticed i cant ope a mastercam file directly from email (exchange).I have to save to say desktop then open it.. Any thoughts? Thanks

I Like it.. Many thanks!!

Hi All, i know about creating a Silhoette boundary fo give a flat boundary of a 3d or 25 part but is it possible to do the same but with a round cylinder bore sleeve that has the pockets machined thru? There are pockets machined thru for intake and exhaust ports.. Some have an external angled face while others have an angle cutting back in underneath.. It would be handy to create the silhoette boundary back towards the center of my part at a certain diameter and then unrolling it to machine.. Thanks

Hi All, Im not sure if ive seen this before but is there a way to somehow find the smallest internal radius on a surface model? and for that matter an easy way to find the smallest external radius on a surface model? Thanks

Hi, if i import 2 identical models ontop of each other then change the level and colour of one of the models is this still regarded as duplicate entities ? thanks

Hi, is it possible to change the color of the menu bar in x9? or is it changed in windows screen itself? Thanks

Hi All, im just getting the hang of x5 multiaxis axis rotary. everything looks good and backplots correctly except for the very start of the backplot where the tool starts at 90 deg then flicks to the correct orientation and backplots from there.. any ideas as to whats happening here? thanks

My local dealer is adding this option in to the drilling dialog within mastercam.. it will give me the option to force a toolchange after so many holes.. sweet..

Hi , is it possible when drilling say 100,s of holes in something that you can define the tool to retract after a defined period time so you can check the condition of the drill and then just hit cycle start again and continue on where you stopped from? Thanks

Hi, where could i get hold of a simple wiring diagram for a rs232 25 pin cable? im sure not all 25 pins are used but i just need some sort of "standard" diagram Thanks

Hi all, im trying to figure out where templates are and what exacly they do in x4.. where can i access this feature? Thanks

Hey no need to be smart about it...

Hi All, im wanting to try mpmaster along with the relavent control and machine def files.. but i cant get it to stay when i exit mastercam.. x5 by the way Any help would be appreciated Thanks

any idea wha param number? might be similar to mitsubishi.. thanks

Hi all, im trying to get navimill operational on our hartford (mitsubushi control) mill.. im obviously missing something because i can created a main program but within the program its calling up macro program numbers that i cant find.. ive got my tool file(9111),cut condition file (9112) and param file(9113).. in regards to say a macro pocket, face or drill it outputs certain program numbers depending on what operation is programmed and its these program numbers that arnt showing up in my controls memory when programmed.. im sure its something simple but im stumped... Any help would be great!

Anyone know when this might be released? Thanks