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Pilot Plant Supervisor

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  1. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Toolpaths>misc ops>stock flip INBOARD BEARING HOUSING.mcx-8
  2. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    At the top of the toolpath manager, there is a button to toggle the toolpath lines. It's next to the padlock button on the top left. It will toggle whatever operation or operations that are selected.
  3. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I feel hamstrung without one, and I only program occasionally.
  4. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    You can chain the geometry and use finish pass with multiple cuts.
  5. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I'm looking back at some old files, and nothing is consistent. That tells me that I haven't found a solution either. Looks like I'm using optirest for most.
  6. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I haven't imported any stock models of other formats, but I have used plenty of solid stock models created in Mastercam. I create them on a separate level, and I have also merged a solid from another file to use as a stock model. Both ways work well for me.
  7. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    +1 on the inserts. One of my guys super glued a part to the CMM granite to keep it from moving. When he removed it, chunks of granite came with it.
  8. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I've had problems with Chevron in the past, I was told it had paraffin in it. We use Hangsterfer's now.
  9. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Not a very good one, but kind of funny. Years ago, when I first started working with CNC lathes, the shop owner I worked for bought a puny little Sharp lathe. I indexed the turret too close to the part with a 3/8 jobber drill sticking out of the turret. When the turret indexed, the drill didn't break, but the turret moved! Owner had to fly in a tech from California to align everything again. I think the wedge was attached with something like six M6 cap screws!
  10. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Thanks!
  11. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    How do I change this? I have 64 Gigs, but it only ever uses 12-13 when re-genning toolpaths.
  12. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Bob, Contact Application Specialties, we have them take care of our custom grind work. They sub it out to a shop in Vancouver, I think, but not sure who. They do great work and even grind some of our crazy stuff that no one else will touch. Think boring bar that will go into a .076" hole 2.125" deep with geometry for refractory metals! www.1asi.com
  13. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I agree with Ron. This is where the 3D mouse really shines. It takes very little effort to run around a model selecting edges to curve, and you end up with a nice clean file with different feature geometries on different levels.
  14. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Yup, set at 19,200. I can't get it to run any faster with the distance to the machine.
  15. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Select "create curve on all edges". Mastercam will prompt to select the solid body or face. You need to click on the "Activate solid selection" button before you can select anything.
  16. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    We have the expanded memory and I've already added high speed machining, but these machines still have floppy drive I'm leaning toward USB since we already have two machines that came with it. I'll have to check some prices I guess.
  17. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    I have several older Haas machines in the shop. With all the new dynamic and high feed tool paths, programs are getting longer, and now some programs are taking over 2 hours to transfer via RS-232. Should I upgrade to Ethernet or USB? I have a USB to RS-232 box by Shop Floor Automations that works well, but it still limits upload speed to what the RS-232 port on the machine can handle.
  18. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    You're using G98 Right?
  19. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    The oversized Helicoils saved my bacon a few years ago. I comped out some threadmilled holes in Titanium a little too far. I bought over sized helicoils and oversized helicoil thread gages so I could control the process. Holes measured good when done, and the customer bought off on it, but man was I sweating for a while. If I remember right, they are only +.01" or so.
  20. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Haha, you're right! It's been so long since I have thought about canned cycles in lathe, but that is exactly what we used to do before Mastercam. Now I never use canned cycles except for threading.
  21. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    It will work with different tools, but if you use a different nose radius, the profile of arcs and angles will not be correct.
  22. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Just a guess, but if it's like the old Fanuc style canned cycles, the rough and finish is done with the same tool. G71 or 73 rough followed by G70 finish.
  23. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    It's always been that way. It will also do all kinds of math for you in the ribbon bar and most any box where you input a value.
  24. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    That's what I needed to know. Just making sure dials, feeds, and threads are in inch.
  25. Pilot Plant Supervisor
    Does the Weiler come in "inch" version, or only metric?

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