What shape are the ways in? Rectangular, I hope

I put an "#" in front of all the lines that had a "newfs" Now it works fine. Thanks,

That is what I did, however it still posts I and K with decimals

I find myself needing to program an old 5T lathe. This control doesn't use decimal points, so you would enter 1" as 10000. I'm using X5 with the Generic Fanuc 2X lathe post. The control def was set to use R for arcs. I changed the format statements for X Y Z I J K and R to #16, which is for no decimals w/ 4 places, and it posted just how I wanted. However, the 5T doesn't use R's. So I changed the control def to use IK. But the post outputs I and K with decimal points. Is there somewhere else I need to change something? TIA

under planes, change the work offset box from -1 to 0

There are a few ways to do this, I would leave my Y0 Z0 as the center of rotation. You could program both parts using G54, but it might give you a little more flexibility to program using a subroutine for each tool, and make one part G54 and the other G55.

Crash Ohne Vericut!! I once ran a spot drill into a clamp.

We do a few tubes here. Always a lot of fun. Most of the ones we do are just straight tubes w/ grooves on the end and a kink somewhere around the middle. It always cracks me up, as someone always goes off about how they could turn the whole thing complete.

I'm not sure if I understand. Is there something unique about JSF tubes? Or is this about machined tubes in general?

Timeserts work great, but their OD is a standard STI thread. I would 2nd making your own inserts, or maybe, if your customer allows, use a thin wall EZ lock

I've seen this on a couple new Haas's. When running a program with a long cycle time, the screen saver kicks in and shuts the monitor off. But on a few instances, the screen would not come back on. Everything worked fine, you could put it in handwheel mode and move it around. But I had to shut the control off and turn it back on.

We looked into these not long ago. They look pretty sweet, but I think they require high pressure CTS

Ya, but do you really think his girlfriend wants a ring that says J Paris inside?

What kind of tolerance? It looks like you could keller them with a lollipop, but if they're +/- .0002 bearing bores, probably not going to fly. Right Angle head? Baseball bat to the knees of the engineer?

click on the down arrows in the upper left corner of the backplot window. Then click on the info tab

you need to change your control def to allow arcs

one thing we do on regular repeat jobs is all the tools are dedicated. All you have to do is slap them in and hit go. That saves a ton of time on setups. The other thing is detailed set up sheets, but not too detailed. Unfortunately, no matter how much time you shave off a setup, the setup guy will still have to spend 2 hours trying to find a 3/8 allen wrench. When he does manage to get a f/a in between bathroom and cigarette breaks, it'll just sit on the incoming shelf in inspection for half a day, while our inspection staff is standing outside arguing about who's turn it is to drive over to Jersey Mikes. Sometimes it seems like a lost cause.

So, is the 9" dia round? if so you can just trepan it the same as you would an o-ring groove. Obviously, you would need to hand load the tool. It would be no problem with a 50 taper. With a 40 taper, you may need to lighten it up.

what kind of machine? I the machines spindle can handle it, I would make a trepan tool. cut your run time down to a couple seconds. Of course, if a taco bell burrito is your incentive, I would spend the rest of the afternoon farting in the bosses office

We have a few jobs that are considered "Filler" jobs. When a machine has nothing scheduled on it, we'll throw a filler job into it and keep it running weather there are orders for the part or not. They go into stock, and when they get ordered, they ship. So, if I'm understanding this right, under lean manufacturing, we would be money ahead to just shut the machines off and tell the operators to grab a broom?

They had solid models in the '50s. Except they were made from balsa wood and clay

95% of our work, if I get a model, it's reference only and the paper print takes precedence. And No, the supplied reference models are never right. The other 5% are reduced dimension drawings, and the model takes precedence, however it needs to be spelled out in black and white that you go by the model.

I wonder if it can be programmed to swat flies? I have to wonder how it would hold up the first time an operator reaches in there with a rake.