Anything mechanical can go bad.  Having said that, I'm not aware of any common issue with any of the Matsuuras.

CAT40-SD012-160J (J has coolant holes along the side of an and mill)

I have it modeled if you need it

We use Haimer and Pioneer (much cheaper but still pretty good)

11 minutes ago, C^Millman said:

Thank you I have done the same thing on other machines, expect where a laser was used. Every time Laser-Inc has come in and calibrated a machine it has been .0002 so I tell anyone just call them get the machine right and have a good day.

Couldn't agree more. Those guys set up our large Okuma 5axis head/table at one time and they have done a much better job than Okuma themselves, lol.

I think James recommended them to me.

2 hours ago, ujmujm said:

The part probe and tool probe where just calibrated and the ez-5 was just run, I'm not using CAMplete any more we purchased a new post processor, the part is located pretty close to the center of rotation and I'm using TCPC. Correct me if I'm wrong but I do not believe any of the 5-axis machine tool builder's  offer a option where you can shift all features on a given rotation only! It's up to the creativity of the programmer.

I'd strongly recommend going back to Camplete. No other post worked as well and as trouble free as theirs.

Ron,

EZ5 assumes that probe is set perfectly spot on. The biggest problem I seem to see is that TLO (combination of gage length and COR to top of table) is often out of whack, which throws EZ5 out of whack giving you wrong numbers. To be fair, EZ5 will work great if my overall accuracy is about .0020, so it's a very quick and easy way of confirming if the machine wasn't whacked during the previous shift.

When we bought our first 5 axis everything was set supposedly spot on. After we run EZ5 to set parameters, my test part that I programmed for this exact purpose was off (.002+/-).. Needless to say we rechecked lasers, probe and everything else few times but could never get EZ5 to get us close on the test parts.

Matsuura worked hard with us on that one. We ended up using the actual test part to adjust parameters and got it easily to under .0005, which worked for me.

After this, Matsuura applications created their own, a little simper test part together with an easy to use spread sheet that we all can use to adjust the parameters. You run the part, measure it, input the difference in the spread sheet and it gives you the numbers that you need to input in the machine parameters. That simple.

At least that's been my experience.

JM2C 

The way I do it on a 5axis when using fixture (I don't have to do it when cutting from stock) is:

-Indicate fixture flat (A and C) and input the rotations into G54.4 fields of the program

-indicate XYZ and input the difference from programmed position into G54.4 fields of the program:

Sample:

(SET G54.4 P1 WSEC)
#26010=-0.0002(X)
#26011=0.0029(Y) 
#26012=0.0003(Z) 
#26013=0 (a)
#26014=0 (b - DO NOT USE)
#26015=0 (c)
#26016=0 (A)
#26017=0 (C)

This will populate the right parameters and you're ready to go, assuming your kinematics are correct.

BTW, EZ-5 is a gimmick. Almost useless.

jm2c

Is someone here selling those? Better price than the 3dconnexion web site? My old space pilot broke and I've been using navigator for a while. I'm missing several buttons, so thinking about getting space mouse again.

TIA

I deal with this all the time. I revert to multiple stock models to avoid air cuts. I started a few threads complaining about the inability of MC to recognize "mushroom" shaped stock. I don't see it being fixed anytime soon though, lol

We can adjust parameters on our matsuura 5axis  machines to within .0005 in ALL 5axis fairly easily with a small test program. I bet we could get it tighter than this if we needed to.

Not surprised by the haas performance though. There is a GOOD reason they're so much less expensive.

Guys and gals at CNC Software used those (sit/stand adjustable) when I was there. I should probably get one myself since I work from home. Sitting too much is NOT healthy.

1 hour ago, cincy k said:

Test bar on the way... Figure it will be money well spent. 

I have one, but the adjustments might be tricky for you. I know Sean created his own part together with spreadsheet to calculate the adjustments (after fighting thru our test and making adjustments) . I suggest you contact him as well. PM me your contact again.

We got everything to within .0005 or less at any rotation/position. I need to get his part too. We just bought another matsuura 5 axis.

Even with EZ5, you don't necessarily will get good number, as it depends on your probe being setup perfectly.

We run a test part for that purpose to verify the parameters.

James, can you share that with me as well? I'm after any and all info/tricks that can get me to as perfect numbers as possible.

TIA

I'm still on the fence about the machine sim. Tried it and wasn't too happy, but maybe I didn't give it much of a chance since X9 or so.

Camplete and Vericut together give me almost 100% confidence...almost

A million lines of code is my personal best/worst. Depending how you look at it

That's 28.3 MB (80 % 5axis)

Did this start after the drivers update? I actually had to revert to old drivers because of similar issues.

Updated quadro drivers lately?

I think I've seen it as well. It might have had something to do with a custom tool definition ... if I remember right

Mine is 17.0.0.0 Dated 6/22/2017

Yes, I got it last week as well. Forgot to update this post.

Jay, I like what you did there. Care to share a sample file?

TIA

Really strange that it thinks it's a concave cutter. I'm assuming that you checked the geo. Have you tried defining cutter manually? I have had trouble with using dxf on few occasions.

Just for kicks, adjust LOC of the tool to a little over .050 doc that you're running it at and see if it tricks it?

Strange, I just got a response from cgtech that:

The MasterCam 2018 to Vericut interface is not yet ready, we are working on it. I will enter a request in your name this should get you notification when it is released.

<head-scratch>

Perfect timing. Thanks!

Does anyone know if the MC2018 plug ins are available for Vericut  V7 and V8?

IS the same plug in working for both versions?

CGTech has been slow with the response...

TIA