Hi Colin, Thanks for the info. I'm not a postguy, but i will try to get it running.

Bump: That gundrill cycle is in the "drill_cycle_9" position, maybe that's the problem ???

If you have coolant throug the flange, you should use CLOSED pull studs, otherwise you blow your coolant in to the spindle and/or spindlemotor !!

Create draft surfaces from your boundry Move them above your cutting levels and add them to your selection

"there is nothing for Mastercam to calculate for cycle time" It is an drill cycle, in backplot there is a path length and cycle time

My millplus post from inhouse supports a couple of custom drill cycles for 'circle milling', 'thread milling' and 'gun drilling'. Now i want to add them in my setup sheet, an customized mill.set. For the descriptoin of those operations i changed and added some lines: #Select drill operation note sdr00 : "G81 " #drill - no dwell sdrd0 : "G81 " #drill - with dwell sdr01 : "G83 " #peck drill - no dwell sdrd1 : "G83 " #peck drill - with dwell sdr02 : "G83 " #chip break - no dwell sdrd2 : "G83 " #chip break - with dwell sdr03 : "209 " #tap - right hand sdrd3 : "209 " #tap - left hand sdr04 : "G85 " #bore #1 - no dwell sdrd4 : "G85 " #bore #1 - with dwell sdr05 : "202 " #bore #2 - no dwell sdrd5 : "202 " #bore #2 - with dwell sdr06 : "208 Boorfrezen " #misc #1 - no dwell sdrd6 : "208 Boorfrezen " #misc #1 - with dwell sdr07 : "262 " #misc #2 - right hand sdrd7 : "262 " #misc #2 - left hand sdr08 : "241 " #drill cycle 9 sdrd8 : "241 " #drill cycle 9 sdrillcyc : "" #Target string fstrsel sdr00 drlgsel sdrillcyc 18 -1 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The cycle description are OK, but the cycle time for the '241 - Gun Drill' give me '0.0'. Any ideas where i can get the right cycle time??

For my threadmills i took an tooltype TAP, and name it an Mill. That way there is a pitch in the toolparameter page.

Some times it wil help if you decrease the 'stepdown/stepover' a lot, may be from 0.05 to 0.5 (yea i'm metric) regenerate the toolpath Then change back to (0.05 or 0.06) and regenerate again. HTH

quote: Downside is you have to use their holders I believe. That's what they tell you, their holders are made from 'special' material. Haimer also tell you that you get the best result with haimer holders in their Shrinker. We use our IGS2200 all day with holders from Haimer, Diebold and Kennametal without any problem.

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quote: I asking about MCX file wich stay on server for example. You can put the MCX-files in an network-map. The network administrator can set the rights for that map for users or user-groups.

quote: I just want coolant on all the time. All tool paths. Every tool change, M08. You can put it as hardcode in your post.

quote: Also would like to know about my helix cycle!!! In my post there is an dill cycle for that. The only minus is that the backplot is'nt correct.

quote: What do I have to do when I create a tool path in Contour to get a program with I and J instead of an R value ? Nothing........ IMHO I and J is better than R do a search, and you'll find a lot of discussion about that

For our DMU-70eVo with Heidenhain iTNC-530 controller i made an gundrill cycle that i can share. quote: BEGIN PGM GUNDRILL MM Q251 = Q203 + Q200 ;SAFETY CLEARANCE Q252 = Q203 + Q358 ;PILOT DEPTH Q252 = Q252 + 1 ;INFEED DEPTH Q253 = Q203 + Q201 ;DEPTH Q254 = Q203 + Q204 ;2ND SAFETY CLEARANCE ; ; CHECK DRILL TYPE FN9: IF Q351 EQU 0 GOTO LBL 1 FN9: IF Q351 EQU 1 GOTO LBL 1 M00 ; ERROR : WRONG VALUE Q351 ; LBL 1 L ZQ251 R0 FMAX M ;RAPID TO SAFETY CLEARANCE L ZQ252 R0 F150 M04 ;INFEED IN PILOT REVERSE SPINDLE LOW FEED M03 M09 ;SPINDLE IN DRILL DIRECTION COOLANT STILL OFF ; FN11: IF Q360 GT +4700 GOTO LBL 2 ; Q359 = 600 ;START RPM 1 FOR RAMPING UP CALL LBL 3 ; LBL 2 Q359 = 4705 ;START RPM 2 FOR RAMPING UP ; LBL 3 TOOL CALL Z SQ359 CYCL DEF 9.0 DWELL TIME CYCL DEF 9.1 DWELL 0.1 Q359 = Q359 + 200 ;RAMP UP RPM FN12: IF Q359 LT Q360 GOTO LBL 3 ; TOOL CALL Z SQ360 ;DRILL RPM M07 ;SPINDLE COOLANT ON CYCL DEF 9.0 DWELL TIME CYCL DEF 9.1 DWELL 1 L ZQ253 R0 FQ206 ;FEED TO HOLE DEPTH L IZ+0.5 R0 ;DRILL 0.5MM FREE FROM BOTTOM CYCL DEF 9.0 DWELL TIME CYCL DEF 9.1 DWELL Q211 ; FN9: IF Q351 EQU 1 GOTO LBL 4 ;SELECTION RETRACT MODE ; M05 M09 ;STOP SPINDLE AND COOLANT L ZQ254 R0 F10000 M ;RETRACT TO 2ND SAFETY CLEARANCE CALL LBL 5 ; LBL 4 L ZQ252 R0 F3000 M ;RETRACT TO PILOT DEPTH TOOL CALL Z S500 ;RPM LOW L ZQ203 R0 F150 M ;RETRACT TO SURFACE COORDINATE M05 M09 ;STOP SPINDLE AND COOLANT L ZQ254 R0 F10000 M ;RETRACT TO 2ND SAFETY CLEARANCE ; LBL 5 TOOL CALL Z S500 ;RPM LOW M04 ;SPINDLE REVERSE END PGM GUNDRILL MM If not exist, create an map called ‘MACRO’ in the controller and place there the program How to use: quote: - 9 TOOL CALL 20600 Z S531 * - PILOTDRILL-6.0-IK DIA:+6. 10 TOOL DEF 26060 11 L Z-1. R0 FMAX M91 12 ; PILOT HOLES 13 CALL PGM TNC:MACROBEMA.H ;(NO) 14 L X-22. Y+112.5 R0 FMAX M03 M07 15 L Z+130. R0 FMAX M 16 CYCL DEF 203 UNIVERSAL DRILLING~ Q200=+2. ; SAFETY CLEARANCE~ Q201=-12. ; DEPTH~ Q206=32 ; FEED RATE FOR PLUNGING~ Q202=+12. ; INFEED DEPTH~ Q210=+0. ; DWELL TIME AT TOP~ Q203=+120. ; SURFACE COORDINATE~ Q204=+10. ; 2ND SAFETY CLEARANCE~ Q212=+0. ; DECREMENT~ Q213=+0. ; BREAKS~ Q205=+0.5 ; MIN. INFEED DEPTH~ Q211=+0.1 ; DWELL TIME AT DEPTH~ Q208=30000 ; RETRACTION FEED RATE~ Q256=+0.6 ; DIST. FOR CHIP BRKNG 17 L M99 18 L X+10. R0 FMAX M99 19 L X+22. R0 FMAX M99 20 L Z+130. R0 FMAX M 21 M09 - - 25 TOOL CALL 26060 Z S500 ;RPM FOR INFEED IN PILOT * - GUNDRILL-6.0x210 DIA:+6. 26 L Z-1. R0 FMAX M91 27 ; LANGGAT 6 DEPTH 165 28 L X-22. Y+113.5 R0 FMAX M04 ;REVERSE DIRECTION FOR INFEED IN PILOT 29 L Z+130. R0 FMAX M 30 ;GUNDRILL PARAMETERS Q200=+2. ; SAFETY CLEARANCE (POS) Q201=-185. ; DEPTH (NEG) Q203=+120. ; SURFACE COORDINATE Q204=+10. ; 2ND SAFETY CLEARANCE (POS) Q206=11 ; FEED RATE FOR PLUNGING Q211=+0.1 ; DWELL TIME AT DEPTH Q351=0 ; DRILL TYPE (0/1) Q358=-12. ; PILOT DEPTH (NEG) Q360=2546 ; DRILL RPM 31 CYCL DEF 12.0 PGM CALL 32 CYCL DEF 12.1 PGM TNC:MACROGUNDRILL.H ;(NO) 33 L M99 34 L X+10. R0 FMAX M99 35 L X+22. R0 FMAX M99 36 L Z+130. R0 FMAX M 37 M09 - This is a metric program, for inches it need some edits - Our spindle has an switch point at 4700 RPM, for that there are 2 start RPM's - DRILL TYPE '0' is for gundrills - DRILL TYPE '1' is for overlength spiral drills Have fun

Back to top, For now this is a great help

AFAIK Autodesk is on the ACIS-kernel SW and Mastercam are on the Parasolid-kernel

put an speed/feed correction your posts. in that case you have to set the max spindle-rpm in the mmd's above your highest spindle. my posts correct the speeds and feeds to an S-max that is related to the tooldiameter. For our Fehlmann P60 with an 26000 spindle: Tools 0.0-0.399mm : S-max = 26000 Tools 0.4-0.599mm : S-max = 25500 Tools 0.6-0.799mm : S-max = 25000 Tools 0.8-0.999mm : S-max = 24500 Tools 1.0-1.999mm : S-max = 24000 Tools 2.0-over : S-max = 23000 My tool tables are limited above the highest spindle. Now the backplot time is not correct, but my setup sheet's also use these correction. I only have to replace the mmd in the machine group and i can post with the right speeds and feeds

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David, web page

quote: "It's very time consuming when you have to select ONE tool in the library, adjust the speed and feed for material and save that tool before going on to the next, which may be just a little bit larger than the previous one." You can convert the tool library to an txt file. Open that txt file with an editor. Make you changes, add tools. Convert an library from txt. Exel would be better

You can use an 'misc.parameter' for that. and make an hard-coded switch to the default in the program end.

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