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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.

I feel hamstrung without one, and I only program occasionally.

You can chain the geometry and use finish pass with multiple cuts.

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.

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.

+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.

I've had problems with Chevron in the past, I was told it had paraffin in it. We use Hangsterfer's now.

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!

Thanks!

How do I change this? I have 64 Gigs, but it only ever uses 12-13 when re-genning toolpaths.

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!

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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.

Yup, set at 19,200. I can't get it to run any faster with the distance to the machine.

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.

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.

 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.

You're using G98 Right?

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.

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.

It will work with different tools, but if you use a different nose radius, the profile of arcs and angles will not be correct.

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.

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.

Not sure what you mean.

 

The specs are listed in Metric but the machine comes with standard inch handle dials.

Like any import, they bring it in set up for the market it's in.

 

That's what I needed to know. Just making sure dials, feeds, and threads are in inch.

Does the Weiler come in "inch" version, or only metric?