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Go Navy

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  1. No Y axis got it! Makes sense to me... thanks for the help Have a great day Al
  2. Ok this might be the dumbest question ever ask but her goes. Is it possibe to mill a round hole on an od using Mastercam and a haas sl 20 full c-axis and live tooling? using c axis cross contour I have been able to mill an oval but not a circle.... any ideas?? thanks for all the help Al
  3. Good Morning All Can someone tell me how to get MC to peck tap? When I use the tapping option in the drill cycle tab all I can get it to do is tap to the bottom of the hole.. way to deep for that. Running Haas VF3 thanks Al
  4. Got it..worked like a charm rotated my views as suggested... Have a great weekend all thanks again Al
  5. Thanks for the super fast help.. I changed my tool plane from top to bottom and it did rotate my a axis from 0 to 180 but it machined off the part so i changed my construction plane to bottom also and that seemed to fix it.. is this the correct way?? thanks again Al
  6. Good Afternoon, I am trying to use our 4th axis basicaly to just hold and rotate our part. I have to machine different features on each side of the part and I have tried checking the rotory axis and rotate about the x axis in the parameters page but, it only outputs a0 and never a180 as I am expecting. the part verifies with the tool coming from the top and the bottom of the part but no axial rotation? any words of wisedome? thanks in advance for your help Al
  7. We are working in lathe and setting up material libraries. On the lathe material definition page (the one that shows all your tool materials and base sfpm) it doesn't have an option for HSS starts out with carbide and cermet,ceramic ect. can anyone tell me how to add the HSS check boxes to that page? thanks for the help Al
  8. Thanks for the great advice the dovetail idea sounds interesting will have to mull that one over. the flip cut tools was exactly what I was looking for but, they don't seem to make one small enough.. thanks again Al
  9. Good Afternoon Everyone I am looking for information about 100 degree reverse countersinks. I have a .1285 hole that needs to be countersunk on the back side to .217 dia and my slot is .525 wide (room for the reverse countersink) I can by a standard revese countesing (the one you put on by hand on the rod) but I was wondering if there were any other ideas floating around. thanks in advance for the help Al
  10. McamNut Thanks!! Boy do I feel silly?? Thanks again for the help and enjoy the weekend Al
  11. We just upgraded to MR2 on our Mastercam Mill and now we are having trouble with operation posting out separately?? I have 4 operations in this new file 3 contours and 1 finish surface flow line. For some reason the 3 contours will post out together and then Mastercam wants to save a separate NC file for the surface operation. I have ensured that I am using the same offset for all the operations. I hope this makes sense. Thanks for the help Al
  12. Thanks for the advice. We are just down the road from upchurch. NAS Whidbey Island. Thanks again Al
  13. We are going to try our first thread milling job. Can anyone suggest a thread mill to cut 2.5-16 UN3b Threads. We use a lot of kennametal tooling but, wanted everyones opinion on this one. Cutting 4130 35 rc on a Haas vf3. thanks in advance for all the help. Al
  14. Good Day All, I hope can explain this correct. We created a new tool and saved it to the library(like many times before) but now when we call this tool up in the toolpath parameter page all the speed and feed information is there but, when we right click on the tool and view the edit tool page. there is no information on speeds and feeds tool tool and length dia offsets ect. the only thing that is filled in is the %of material speed and feeds. Which by the way will update the tool if we change the numbers? Any idea what we did wrong to not get the data into these fields... Thanks for the help al
  15. Got it!! Thanks for the help everyone! Have a great day Al
  16. Using Mastercam X MR2 Should be a simple one.. All I want to do is countour around the outside of a box wireframe but I would like to drill a hole off of the tool path and force the countour plunge inside the hole for each pass. Thanks for the help Have fun Al
  17. John and Lou Thanks for the quick response! That was the thread I was looking for.... Have a great day Al
  18. Good Afternoon everyone I thought I remembered reading in the past about a c-hook that would load a set of default levels in Mastercam Mill X. I did a search but didn't have any luck.. Does anyone happen to remember this thread or have such a critter? Thanks for the help Have a a great day Al
  19. Makes sense to me. Thanks for the help Have a great day AL
  20. Good day everyone We have a blue print for a pin that has a note that states "rack at ends only) can anyone tell me what that means? sorry for going a little off topic. Have fun Al
  21. No the only wcs planes I am using is top, bottom and right side. Thanks for taking a look Al
  22. Ok I imported a stock mastercam x surface rough pocket. I checked assign system current tool and construction planes then inported tool path. The problem is that none of the toolpaths that I inported generate a workoffset G54 g55 ect. even if I go back and set an ofset in the operational parameters page. What am I missing here? thanks for the help AL
  23. Good Morning I just wanted to say thanks to everyone in this forum!! I have learned more in the past few days than in the past few months. Thanks for all the tips and great ideas like loading levels it all makes so much sense. Have a great day Al
  24. James Ok I see how you did that so I take it you would rough everything out the same way and go back and make the fillets surfaces or would you just use an end mill with the currect radi already on it? Thanks Al
  25. Dave your suggestions are exactly the way we have this part running currenty I just happen to have a little extra time to try to learn a little about solids and thought I would give it a go. Thanks for all your Help Al

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