The reason being your set up for feed per revolution, your feed rate is incorrect. Good thing for the error/max feed settings! Should be expressed.. Example 1/4-20....F.05 HTH

Not enough memory? What size tool? For an excellent facing pass, set the tol. Way high, .005/.01. 70/30% filters, big min t-path rad.

. Ha! Enough said about hy-mech then, I'm over anything that compares to a HAAS! ; ) funny thing is, the Hyd-mech and behringer are almost identical cost. Our Rep, which sells hyd now and used to sell behringer, said behringer is no longer made in Germany?

Thanks guys. newbeee, we did look at bringing them in sawed, apparently the mill thinks that's a 125hr job. Sticky, good info, glad behringer was on the list, this was the first call as the main hub is 6hrs from us so that's a plus. Also looking at the Hyd-mech H18A, anyone have experience with this brand? Roger, what is that saws capacity and what's the sfm it can run? Looking for something that can run roughly 100-700.

In the market for a new saw as the old do-all can't keep up. For my own reasons I am looking at double column styles, but open to suggestions. Primary cutting aluminum, mainly rounds ranging 2"-18", but also cut 4140, and S.S. What do you guys use/have that cuts FAST! Or current saw is limited between 200-300sfm. Please let me know what we should look at.

Hahaha, sticky fingers get smacked! We've got the original hard copy, but there is a huge deviation from one machine to the other we have here. Trying to chase a issue on this one.

Could any of you fine gents let me know what #'s you have in your HAAS VF5 or VF5SS in the following parameters. 810 811 812 861 Thank you in advance

excellent path for quick simple parts, just used this last week for a 9" x 6.5 rectangular part full rad ends that had a 4deg edge chamfer. Click click, bam. Done! Cut it with the side of the endmill, beautiful finish.

Excellent, thanks Ron. Thought I didn't know what I was doing for a minute. Drives me crazy, lol.

So if I'm using a fast feed mill in a dynamic 2D HS tool path and go say max tool cut depth of .028, I'm able to generate a tool path. Now, if I need to mill deeper, and use depth cuts that's a fail using the custom tool. A bug obviously, as I can go to -.028 or -.150 and path generates and looks correct, but add depth cutting and its a no go. Are you guys seeing the same?

Stagger tooth side milling cutter, use dynamic passes, done in minutes! Currently cutting parts using this method and very very fast and easy on tooling. FYI, our deal is 1/8 wide thru cut slot at over 1.25 dp. I'll post feeds/speeds when I get back in.

As a boring bar always! One offset, first pass done at tool dia. or + maximum 1st pass offset as designed by tool mfg. Then the rest is straight forward as a boring bar, no math needed to find what dia. it is cutting at.

Iscar, as mentioned. We have 4 or 5 of these in various sizes, they work very well.

It works in X9 , but it also collapses the entire op at the same time. Time for the upgrade.

Hahaha, I new someone would know that!

Is this outta control or is it just me, reminds me of old video game codes....up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,select, start......

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Current release, anyone have any problem using file merge to bring in additional parts, fixtures? When using "current attributes, mine did, but also added 5 other levels same name but nothing on the level.

Go and get yourself a hot glue gun and machine away! Use this trick all the time on paper thin parts, also works like a charm on a surface grinder to remove a bow that ordinarily the magnet would pull flat.

Murlin, are you using the "drill 5ax" t-path? No need to create any work planes.

I had to jump in on this subject, and I personally will never buy another without a ssd. So much faster, and not quite bullit proof but close. The I7 and quadro have served me well on all the software we use.

I rarely care what the gnome says in the lower left, in the 5ax world I'm working from multiple wpcs. If you want need them all to match, set all your c/t/wpc planes to that new view. Then the gnome will match. Not moving your part and setting individual wpcs (at least for me) is a best/proven method. Especially if you make the move into the multi axis world and deal with large files.

Rather than moving the part around, in case they send you an updated file, why not just use a dynamic wpc to place the origin where needed? Then any revised file doesn't need moved around again. Just my 2c.

Colin couple things come to mind, used drill bits, but you got that covered in the a.m. The webs could have been off, those few tenths wouldn't be doing that, are the holes your doing straight and round? What are you spotting with? make sure the spot point is smaller than the drill web, in your case almost a point. Also, don't use a 90deg spot, go with a 140+ for the straightest holes, you want the point of the drill to touch first. If all else fails, I would blame it on the HAAS, we just dumped $6k i ours this week, junk I tell you, our Doosan's run circles round these. Ok, I'm done ranting, let us know how you make out.

What is the drill pt. angle of the pre drill? Same as your spot, must be equal to or greater than angle of next drill. Next culprit would be run out. We are doing lots of holes close to yours in dia. at 20-25D no problems, Guhring here as well but we don't have that psi for coolant, must be nice!