Another parellel retainer...... I ended up using a hose clamp bent into a "W" for holding my parallels in place. It was one of those time when that was the only thing I had laying around when I needed something in a rush.... that was 15 years ago, and it's still in my tool box....

Is there a way I can retrieve the cycle time from the machine simulation rather than from backplot? The machine simulator time is much closer to what my actual machine time is. I'm using an active reports setup sheet that retrieves the backplot cycle time currently, but I would love to be able to point it to the simulator cycle time and retrieve that data instead.

We're using Cribmaster. I haven't had the chance to learn much about the actual workings of it yet, but our tool crib attendant likes it. It allowed us to setup bins and define each for what we need, so we're not stuck with the vending machine approach.

Great! thanks guys. I'll see what I can do with it.......

Hoping to get some help from somebody who has worked with this material before. I'm quoting a part out of Inco 625. I've never machined Inconel before, so I'm learning as I go. I have several holes to drill and tap, and ream, and a few counterbores to mill. Mostly in the 1/4" to 1/2" diameter range, but I do have a couple of holes that are .070 diameter X 2.1" deep. Whats a good starting point? HSS, or carbide? I'm guessing carbide. It's got a high nickel content, so I'm guessing work hardening is going to be a factor.

edited... Nevermind, I was in the contour ramp menu, not helix bore...

MIght be oversimplifying what you want, but you can go to file/properties and there is a field in there for file descriptors

I was having the same problem. It went away after I updated the driver for the video card. So far, so good after about 2 weeks or so.

1min, 37 sec.

Intel Xeon 2.66GHz x 2

6.00GB RAM

Windows 7, 64 bit

Does anyone know what is causing this? I made a setup sheet template in ActiveReports for X5 that was working well, but when I upgraded to X6, the report generates a "SJV" in front of the manual entry for my setup instructions.....

Change the editor in screen configure to CIMCO and your errors should be gone.

 

Allan

That did it Thanks!

I came in from the weekend to a new computer. X5 and X6 were already loaded up on it. (Thanks to my IT guy ) So, I think I got everything migrated over except needing an updated license for one of my post processors. I'm still using X5 until I get that new license but I am getting a couple of error messages now in X5 when I post. The program posts fine, but not before I get these two error messages. Anyone know what I can do about them?

there is something different between the old computer and the new computer.

The tool holder files are not in the same place and the program can't find them.

Did you copy your config file from the old machine to the new machine ????

My config was on the old machine that crashed..... I know, lesson learned.....

When I open the "holder" tab in the op manager, the library is still there, and the tools I defined are still listed in the library though...

My computer crashed hard this morning We had another machine, so we replaced the bad one with the newer one. I had to reinstall MC (I'm still running X5 mu1). Now when I open up a file I have already worked on, all the tool holders are no longer defined. Is there anyway I can get that back? I figured that would have been saved with the file like all the rest of the stuff......

We're somewhere around 50% graphite, 40% molybdenum, and the other 10% is pure tungsten, 304ss, 6061, boron nitride, various plastics. In my corner of the shop, There's 4 DMG 5 axis mills, but we also have Mori Seiki 3 axis mills, and couple of Sharps, as well as Doosan, Mori, and DMG lathes.

I have done this but could not find a way to enter the header information. The labels are there but no data. Is there a way to add a query to populate these when running the report?

Sent you a PM.

It is, however, I need the data in the header of the report and the tool manager does not have this option. So setup sheet via active reports is the only method I have found.

I wonder then if you could modify the tool report to add in the info you need and just run a tool report instead? I'm sure there's a number of ways to do it. Just something to think about.

Sorted Tool List...Sorted by what?

 

You guys are aware that you can right-click in the Tool Manager choose Arrange Tools > by Number, by Type, by Name, or by Diameter and then right-click choose import/export - detailed report or report.

This will give you a report in the way that you chose to arrange them. Is that what you guys are looking for?

Good suggestion... I might have been going the long way about it!

Where are you placing this code to get it to work?

 

Thanks, -Pat

When you open up the Designer, there is a tab at the bottom that says "script". Click on that and you can cut/paste that into that field. I'm attaching a couple of screen shots too. You'll have to setup the main report to look for the subreport, and have the subreport in the report directory.

For a sorted tool list you can go to the Tool Manager, Rt click on import/export then either detailed report or report. This is a sorted tools report, I wonder if it can be called from the standard setup sheet report as a subreport. Colin might know !

You can call it in as sub report. You have to write in some custom code for it though. As far as I've been able to tell, that's the only way to make it happen.

This is how I brought mine in....

public void ActiveReport_ReportStart()

{

DataDynamics.ActiveReports.ActiveReport sbrpt = new

DataDynamics.ActiveReports.ActiveReport();

sbrpt.LoadLayout("C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Documents\\shared mcamx5\\common\\reports\\SST\\-tooldetail.rpx");

this.tooldetail.Report = sbrpt;

}

Good question, pretty sure I asked Ruth Delise about this and couldn't be done but on looking at it now i can't see why not. Will look into this some more.

It can be customized by opening up the Active Reports Designer. It takes a little messing around with to figure out where to pull the info from for your report. There should be a tutorial as well, but you may have to get that from your reseller.

Wow, will do on the .png conversion. That's a lot bigger than I expected....

Yeah it will input the comment where ever you have it in the op manager. The way I set my setup sheet up was to use the manual entry field at the end of all the toolpaths. I'd put all my setup notes in a manual entry, but use the comments in the toolpath parameter page for any tool-specific info I needed.

Will that treat the entry like a toolpath and automatically show in the correct spot or is this a mod to the report that will show in every report whether it is used or not? I use this to place notes that the operator needs to see at the right point in the setup sheet. I think this would be a nice feature if it isn't setup that way now. I just figured if it was a manual entry that the report would capture it like a toolpath entry. Is there a reason that it doesn't show like any other toolpath? Thanks for the input.

You should be able to locate the manual entry section in the menu on the right side of the Designer then drag and drop it where you need.

Does anyone know or is there a way to get Active Reports to output the Manual Entry that is created and shown in the operations manager?

crop.bmp

Done.

I agree with gcode. We roll form in 304 pretty frequently with no troubles. We use OSG taps here, and Mike O Cut tapping oil. Generally we run about 500 RPM on it. But again, hole size is critical.