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  1. ?Mark
    Awesome....we having them realign our okuma
  2. ?Mark
    LOL, that toolchanger i something else. Very fast for a cat50. Funny to watch
  3. ?Mark
    Thanks Joe! <cheers>
  4. ?Mark
    Thanks! Is he dependable and ethical? Do you have his phone that you can share? Nothing really that can be done over the phone. We simply can't afford to have them idle for too long (weeks actually) and our current repair guy is a very busy person... We have 4 spn50 in an fms and 2 hn63c in an fms as well. They're tired machines...
  5. ?Mark
    Looking for some good contact info for a very capable repair guy. TIA
  6. ?Mark
    It does fix positioning between most all rotations, but seems to still have hiccups when positioning between two rotary 4-axis toolpaths.
  7. ?Mark
    BTW, I got a nice NH5000 post i can swap for Mazak QTN-200-II post (simple 2 axis) Or I'll just give it to you. PM me...
  8. ?Mark
    "When using transform, if I end at B270, I want to pick up at B270 and work backwards, however, programming in 1 location, that is not easily done without a fair bit of hand editing." Not sure if that's what you're after, but try "-1" in transform toolpath under "assign new" "increment" in "work offset numbering"
  9. ?Mark
    " Am I suppose to save it thru verify as and stl?" yes
  10. ?Mark
    +1 That's how I do it too.
  11. ?Mark
    Anyone knows how to download this video? I'd like to put this on our network for training. TIA
  12. ?Mark
    Surprisingly, it wasn't really that much...$5K give or take
  13. ?Mark
    Oh, I got all the options I asked for which is pretty much the whole list presented in the above video. We had fanuc install them few months after purchasing the equipment.
  14. ?Mark
    I ended up adding pretty much all the options 2 months after equipment installation. That's what happens when decisions makers don't do homework before spending $$$ and trust a verbal guarantee "don't worry, it's got every option you will ever need" lol:))
  15. ?Mark
    Great info! I wish I had it few years back when Okuma AE tried to tell me I didn't need WSEC, lol ;-)
  16. ?Mark
    Any way to compare verification times between your old and a new pc? Can you pick something with substantial verification times (30+ minutes)?. I'm loosing a lot of time on that. I'd greatly appreciate it. Seems that toolpath generation times are not that bad anymore with multicore processors. It's the verify that seems to become more of the bottleneck for me.
  17. ?Mark
    Select gap distance and input large number, say 2 inch. See if it helps
  18. ?Mark
    Gap settings, keep tool down?
  19. ?Mark
    It also affects tools. I had a toolpath (pictures I sent you today) already done. I edited the length of the lollipop shoulder so it could gei deeper into the part, but after regenerating the toolpath didn't change at all. After creating a new tool with exactly the same parameters, selecting it and regenerating the toolpath it finally "kicked" in and changed my toolpath as expected.
  20. ?Mark
    It is/could be a minefield, just like you found out. I do the same thing though. Copy/paste/edit parameters (for an extra rough path). At the first sign of trouble I nuke it and start from scratch. A lot of hours saved that way.
  21. ?Mark
    Your 3rd picture shows you using classic backplot. I didn't read thru the thread in it's entirety, but I highly recommend you don't use classic backplot on any rotary and especially 5axis moves.
  22. ?Mark
    LOL, I just realized those are 2 separate companies...solidbox and boxx.
  23. ?Mark
    Hi John, I'm back at the old place, they asked nicely .. The 2 morons that run the place got fired...so I'm back at multiaxis and pretty involved 3d high speed surfacing... Verifying takes between 1-3+ hours/day. Looking to improve this number with a better PC. We also got a really sharp programmer that come from a shop where they used boxx pc's and he said they were flying thru similar verification. That started the whole conversation about upgrading.
  24. ?Mark
    CAD Workstation Xeon vs i7 vs i5 Processors http://graitec.co.uk/hardware/cad-workstation-guide/xeon-vs-i7 Really interesting article...
  25. ?Mark
    Everything on youtube looks great

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