+1 on Delcam Power Inspect

Powermill is a one click cut 3D / 5 axis deal, you would flip..... Can you do any CAD whatsoever....NOPE. Drill...Tap..Contour...pocket...NOPE. Hurtin on the modeling big time...

We had 3 Hurco's a VMX30,VM1 and a VMXS24 They ROCKED ON MC G code.. Not to mention anyone could walk up and program one off a DXF file. "Bullet Proof" stuff.

I usually have the tool dia. as my gap and it stay's down. You are right though if you put to much gap it will cut through the part! It takes a coupls of tries to get a satisfactory result sometimes. I would start getting used to using the HSM toolpath's Or at least throw them at the same Geo to see how they handle them for kick's.

Scott and Dave at Shopware came up with the best overall .stl tolerences for me in X4 .008 / .003 if I recall (I'm at home now) I still use those settings in X5.

Hi Guy's hope you don't mind if I chime in too With one Month under my Belt of 4 axis Hortz... I have been using Top / Front and A WCS off my stock modeled exactly how and where it will sit in the vice or Fixture. From the Pallet C/L orgin But My Last job was a casting so I really didn't know where it was so I programmed the whole thing from the C/L of the Pallet until it was Faced /Doweled To go unto pallet # 2. Sometimes (Being a casting) the Spot drill went .200 in sometimes it just nicked the part? It all worked out but Being a Moldmaker / CNC guy I feel like I cheated and fudged the whole job to get it to work. Quite a bit of Hand editing at the control. The Code and offsets are saved and with the fixturing were turnkey. Thanks Nathan & Guys Tony

I am back to using : Toolpaths / Toolmanager / Import export tools / Report / I have a Customized Active report from my reseller But it Doesn't work With Top Front Front etc. Horizontal stuff and has been logged as a Bug.

Thank's Guys I'll give it a spin tomorrow...literally !

Hi Guy's How does's the PROG / Restart work ? I can start at a tool callout fine, but if I have 3 long sections of surfacing path's And just want to start on "That line of code" After I pulled the tool out of the magazine through MDI, Put it back in , typed in the new Z offset. Hit cycle start and it takes off with out pulling the tool out of the Magazine? I must be missing something? (The Mighty Hurco's pull all the code's prior) Last but not least.. Sometime's I want the pallet to rotate CCW because of clearence issue's "M15 B270" is supposed to do this but it Doesn't work (So far)? We tried it on it's own line. With a G90 in front of it. A *.* in front of it....j/k Thanks for even reading this thread! Tony

S.F. parallel,flowline (Quick) or HS Raster across the top maybe make a dummy by copying the orig. to Another level then un trimming it. SF contour or HS waterline path(S) on the OD and then on the ID. Use Add Cut's too get the small details. Chris I had a "Cowboy hat Shape" and the base of the hat was "Ungelated"(sp)? Ended up the best result's came from Radial using the Boss of the hat as a check surface. So once every 20 years...You need Radial!

Hi guy's Our Haas is erroring out when I use Helix Bore with wear. It doesnt do it all the time and sometimes only on half the Holes in the program? But the underlying issue is the comp being turned off to late And to late and only at the last location. We are using the generic haas 4 axis post. Are my setting's off somewhere? I am at a point of only using Helix / Computer for the roughing and Circle mill / wear from center for bore sizing. Thanks Tony

Do you have Hurco's ISNC option? that will fix the drilling problem... The arc's are just as easy...

I have seen this, I had too make a Copy of a tool Then edit the tool to the parameters you want for your new drill etc. then save the library. Now it's in there. Or Some libraries the new tool creation will stick like my "A-2" library Any other I get your results so I created them in A-2 and then Copy and pasted them into the library I wanted them in. Copy and pasted because the Arrows wouldn't work, they wouldn't move the tool's From one window to the other. HTH

Screen capture.. This only happens to me in "7" worked fine in XP pro..

Hi Guy's Is there a way to output a variable feed rate to tackle Harmonic vibration from setting in. The Long skinny stuff start's singing in the lathe and a touch of the feed override here and there saves the day. The Lathes are Fanuc 18's Thanks Guys Tony