Wow, never heard of the last 2, nice......

I think we can remove the ( in front of that line : (IF[[#24*#25*#17*#19*#20*#18*#26*#8*#9]EQ0]GOTO1000 Nice macro cncchipmaker.

I can only agree here !!!

Thanks for your comments, the departement near mine as an Hermle and I only had the training on it and it is a great machine, it has the seimens control, did try Heidenhain on a PC and found Siemens easier to learn.

Hope Fanuc is not at the top !!!!!!!

Thanks, I'll suggest this one to the person involved.

Is this machine on the okuma website ? can't see it

That's really my opinion, good macros and/or good control or offline. Thanks guys, keep going...

Yes but we need a table of 36" to 48" in dia.

Just checked on Mazak website again, and I dont think they have a swiveling table that big (36" to 48" dia), and we don't want a swiveling head. Do you think we can get a cam system direcly in the control on the makino ? And their modified Fanuc control (pro 5 I think), is it really better than stock ? For mazatrol not being that good, what we want to do very easily is : pocket and custom pocket on a pitch circle or inline etc., holes and conterbore on a pitch circle, in line etc, and/or all of the above on the periphery of the part (table tilted at 90deg.) We want cycle for thread mill, engraving, and be able to restart anywhere in the program, skip hole or pocket easily too. Well keep going guys, I like seeing answers, thanks !

Celos or not for the control ??? Thanks

Ya Mazak offer lots of machines, you have to go thru all the machine on their website and they are affraid to put some pictures of it. I heard that their control are not very capable vs Seimens 840D, anyone use both ?? I have played with the 840D with shopmill and it's great, program are very visual, restart is simple, lot's of good things.

Hi everebody, I work for a big name so $$ is not really a concern, and we are looking for a vertical 5 axis cnc mill (no turning), with a table of 36" to 48" in diameter, minimum 80 tools, must be very ergonomic, we are not doing any production or mould work, we can do 1 to 3 or 4 set-up per day, and 80% of the job is probrammed at the control, so we need something very user friendly and capable. Here's what I found below, would like your opinion on these and if there's any particular model you would buy, just tell me. Thanks a lot (sorry for my english) DMU 105: http://ca-en.dmgmori.com/products/milling-machines/universal-milling-machines-for-5-sided-5-axis-machining/dmu-monoblock/dmu-105-monoblock#Intro Makino D800Z : http://www.makino.com/vertical-machining-centers-5-axis/d800z-50-taper/ Hermle C52 : http://www.hermlemachine.com/cms/en/products/product_overview/bearbeitungszentrum_c52/ Alzmetall GS 1200 or 1400 /5-T : http://www.alzmetall.com/alzmetall/index.php?id=gs140050&L=1

We have the E50 in the shop (canada), and yes it's rigid and precise, very good in manual mode, best lathe so far for re-cutting thread (easy), even better than my okuma LB4000ex (just comparing re-threading here...) yes dials, feeds and threads are in inch. If you have fency shape to turn, and not too much of the same parts , I would ask to see difference with the stock control and with Shopturn installed.