We had a guy surface grinding 300 pieces 2"x3"x3/16" steel plates on a grinder that had six sections to the magnetic chuck. Needless to say the grinder was as old as dirt and one of the six sections wasn't magnetized. The first pass across the bad section sent them into the rest of the pieces and them babies took off like unloading an AK-47. I was about 200 ft. away but in plain view of all this. He hit the floor and was crawling to hit the e-stop. Meanwhile everybody else took shelter as these plates went thru windows, walls, toolboxes, etc. Really quite funny to watch since nobody was injured. If you could of seen the look on his face reaching for the e-stop.

If your running a pocket toolpath with ramping: Go to the pocket parameters tab. On the bottom right side there is a "Override Feed Speed section just for this.

change your allocations >>screen/configure/allocations you'll want your "Current RAM allocation set at about half of the ram in your system.

I am running a Nvidia Quadro4 580 xgl. My settings are true color (32bit) 1152x864 pixels. Everything runs fine with these settings

Toolfab, See if Harley-Davidson will give you a rebuild kit for a Fatboy. (For all your hard work) If they will, I'll gladly take it off your hands.

Made an alumminum mold for a Porsche hood. A guy is spending 30k to have his own mold made and run one part, then destroy it. He wants to be the only one with a hood like this.

Me three!!!

While on the subject, Where do you put the ta,1 in the post?

.....or just follow the link provided by rekd!

Go to the top of this page. Click on "search". Type in bmp files, then click on the search button. It will bring up all the post that discuss this topic. You can then click on each one and read them. You can get the raster vector software from your reseller.

A raster vector converter. Do a search on "bmp files" there is alot of info there.

You might want to check into a coromant hydro-grip from Sandvik. They are really precise as far as runout. They have a bladder full of hydraulic fluid that grips the collet. We use them and they are well worth it if you want something to run true.

Toolfab, I just sent you a mitsubishi 600 series post. Check it out. It might help ya.

Thanks kevin. I can see this is gonna be a time consuming process. I think it is a big benifit though, so it's worth it to me!

Jamman, I remember talkin to ya. Hey if your going to move to ohio, We have a sister plant there. In Piqua, Oh. I used to work there before I came down here in '95. I can hook you up with them if you like. I know them all pretty well. If your going to be in the Dayton or Cincinnati area, I know there is a ton of shops in those areas. Let me know If I can help ya in any way. I know it must be hard to leave God's country to back to Ohio. [email protected]

I just read the latest MC bulletin and seen where it says that age, horsepower, table weight, etc. Are all factors that influence the machine dynamics. I understand all this, but knowing all the dynamics of the machine tool, how do I figure them into my parameters? Is there a formula to figure all this in for each set of my machine dynamics?

JAMMAN, Try United Tool & Mold Easley, SC I know they use Mastercam.

yes it is possible. you can create your own, or pick one from the library.

Sounds cool. I will watch on tv. Good luck!!!

Thank you very much!

I need to limit my line numbers in my nc files to 99,999. Is there a way to do that? And if so, is it a post edit, or is there an option in MC. Thanks for the help.

Here!!!! Not posting much lately either. Very busy at work. Fortunatley.

Kathy, ProE is what I was thinking about. I like how it uses the trail files. Multiple undo's would be great, huh?

LOL James. I know it's a LONG shot. But hey, the topic is "wants".

I would like to see Mastercam use "trailing files". Everything you do, and every move you make is saved. If you ever need to backup and re-do, or change something you have already done, all you have to do is bring up a log, and highlight your move and make your changes.