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Pilot Plant Supervisor

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  1. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    For a quick program at the machine, I like to keep it simple. Yes, it is conventional cut for right hand threads, but it is the least amount of code, and least amount of math. T1 M6 G0 G90 G54 X0 Y0 S3000 M3 G43 Z2. H1 Z.1 M8 G1 Z0 F20. G91 G42 X.3375 D1 F9. G2 I-.3375 Z-.0417 L15 G1 G40 X-.3375 G90 G0 Z2. M9
  2. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    We generally use solid carbide such as Data Flute medium helix. I haven't really found any coating working better than another because tool life is so poor. The company I work for actually makes the NiTi alloys, and most of the machining we do is for R&D. I have never had to make production parts with it, so I haven't ran enough quantity of anything to dial in cutters and coatings.
  3. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Nasty stuff. We have found that sharp tools with high shear work best. Insert cutters are iffy, as there is usually too much edge prep and not enough geometry. I played around with drilling, and had some success with Guhring 3 and 4 margin drills, but tool life was pretty short. Surprisingly, gundrilling went well. I managed to drill 2mm holes 8" deep in some test billets.
  4. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    First time at IMTS for me. After a couple of days, all the machines start to look the same! To me, the Samsung looked pretty generic, but I did like the Hyundai and Doosan. We are mostly DMG and Haas here though, because of the sales and service in our area.
  5. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    We've been having good luck with Guhring series 501, but they start at 1MM.
  6. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    No Cobalt, they have too thick of web and the split point will not work. Use standard 118 degree point bright finish drills.
  7. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    We part a lot of Zirconium and Titanium, so I plan to try the coolant through tools when these jobs come up again.
  8. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    We have that USB box that we sourced from Shop Floor Automations. It still uses RS-232 for transfer, but being so close to the machine, it allows the transfer to run at the fastest baud rate. Programs that used to take 1.5 hours to send over the looooong wire, now can transfer in 20 minutes or so.
  9. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Everything from rubber rope and duct tape, to Nerf footballs here.
  10. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Containment boundaries? Might have to copy the operation and change the containment for each section, but it should get you there.
  11. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    We occasionally use our system for classified work. Our solution is to keep our workstation off the network so there is no chance of a hack or spying. It is a bit of a pain when updates are needed or when help from our reseller is needed, but we get by.
  12. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I use a lot of the Seco High feed mills R217.21. 3/4" 3 flute 900 sfpm in steel 75% step over .025" step down .025" chip per tooth. I haven't tried in aluminum yet, but I believe they make an aluminum insert. Our Haas mills can't keep up with the cutter, but you can sure remove the metal in a hurry. I'd love to run them in a high end machine.
  13. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    You are correct. I went back through some files, but I couldn't find the one I was looking for. I do remember getting waterline to cut bottom to top in one cavity, but I don't remember how. Maybe unchecking "optimize cut order" and reversing chain? It is there in X9 though
  14. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    It's there in X8 in the Surface High Speed tool paths. I'm not sure about the 2D tool paths, I don't use those much.
  15. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    You can select "bottom to top" and toggle between climb or conventional cut in the cut parameters.
  16. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I think its gray when you hide the toolpath with the toggle button.
  17. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Mostly Lyndex here.
  18. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    In G81 or G83 you can use X, Y, and Z. Not sure if the post will output that, but you certainly can program different Z's within the cycle.
  19. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I think you would have to modify the post and use misc integers in the misc values tab to trigger that.
  20. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    In the thread cut parameters, you can choose equal depth or equal area. There are options for # of cuts, and depth of first cut. If you need more info, click the question mark at the bottom right of the dialog box for the help menu, then click the tab on the right that says field definitions. Now click on each highlighted phrase and it will give an explanation.
  21. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Something like this. Lathe Op.mcx-8
  22. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Three here. Mastercam on one, ops manager, level manager, multi-thread manager on the second, and Verify on the third.
  23. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I've been cutting a lot of extrusion dies using Seco high feed indexible mills with Surface High Speed Area Clearance, Surface High Speed Rest Rough, Waterline, And Surface High Speed Waterline Rest. I tried the full tool engagement dynamic tool paths on some molds, but the high feed paths work better for me. Might have something to do with using 40 taper Haas mills. The Seco mills run great in H13 at 900 SFPM .025" depth of cut, and .025" per tooth feed.
  24. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    You can get close with SGS series 24
  25. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Our Haas lathes work fine with the E for federate. The IPR or IPM for drilling cycles can be switched in the toolpath manager on the page where the feed and speed are entered.

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