That is weird. Shell was the only tne making a epoxy for space apps. IT could handle the cold and heat of space.

And yes, the ball screws will take a beating, along with the bearings. Sop keep a eye on the tolerances as you run.

MOST IMPORTANT, DONT BREATH IT IN. IT WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS LATER !. ITS GLASS. NO DIFFERENT THEN BREATHIN IN VOLCANIC ASH.

THATS THE xxxx THEY DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT!!!

And a BIG vacumn. Its going to get into everything, The dust that is.

Where a mask when blowing it off.

You will need to run it dry.

On V7 I kept loosing the lathe side. It was random, but IT showed it was always going to one computer in the engineering dept. That computer did not have MC installed. Never did find the problem.

SAME ICON IS ON THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON MENU

On the tool page only.

Some machines are different, but do set it up as a large tool.

Jeff What machine?

I started with Easy Cam and MC 3.21

EasyCam makes Bobcam look stupid, even today. Then there was Feature Cam. We bought the first release. What a joke. Upper engineeres wanted it even though they don't use it or ever would. What sold them was the "EYE CANDY" Never could get it to work.

The big stuff was programmed with Gibbs, which ran off a unix server. Only the salary guys were allowed to use it.

One of our vendors does all our rope drums for us. I have no idea how they are doing it. 80 " long is standard. Some are longer

16" dia +.

There is talk of buying big enough lathe to do the work here, but ......

A form tool with the exact shape. then lie to the machine about the pitch. THe deeper you go the more the tool will be engaged. Not the best idea in this case.

It would be nice to break it up with a smaller tool. Run both side of the groove like a surface path. Doable if the software can do the geo of if you are good on macros.

Machineguy

Over 600 bug fixes in this version.

I don't use bounding box much, and not at all in this version , yet. It has its purpose. Maybe a enhancement is in order so we can pick what we need?

Machineguy

ALT brings up the ribbon shortcuts

I haven't played around to see the rest. Help menu?

ALT turns them on. Never saw a checkbox.

Just took a class on the 2017. Here is a transition guide in PDF format.

Machineguy

Mastercam_2017_Making_The_Switch.pdf

Murlin,

Talk to CNC about this.

Imported file. Ive seen this with SW files a while back.

I reopened the file in SW and turned on everything on and re-saved the file.

When I brought it back in I had no issues.

Strange stuff.

That's a old control. Never seen that either.

A manual would help. Who does the maintaince?

What machine?

Move z down about 1 in from the top.

Move the other axis off the ends.

Shut the machine down, count to 10 slowly, restart again. It need to "home itself" . Known what button it is?

Hey look , another Ahole that needs his fingers wacked by a nun with a 12" ruler.

Sticky,

The title says H1025 !!

For profiling

1.0" dia

960 RPM

6.0 feed

.03 DOC

266 f/min (use this for SFPM)

carbide TiAIN coated

At 3.0"dia

332 RPM

2.1 in/min feed

Uncoated tool:

133 f/min

At 3.0 dia

166 RPM

1.06 in/min

These are starting points for the material

Machineguy

Read page 72 of the "WHATS NEW"

IS THAT IT?

Looks like MC need to step in and say something. Im still getting used to this version.

I do like the lathe enhancements.

FOUND IT !

In the planes menu click the "+" on the top left. At the bottom of the menu window that pops up.... Dynamic Planes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Machineguy

Spindle load will vary by machine. Just keep a eye on it when running. Its also a good indicator when conditions change in a run like the tools are getting dull, material has work hardened, ect.

I listen for a sound change also.

The Kit's are strong machines. The only issue we had was the operator!

click the "insert button" on you keyboard ONCE.