+1 on the Doosan's. We have several, 3 lynx 200's , 2 220lm's, 1 220 l, and a puma 240msb. These lathes will put in work and hold with the best of them. They are affordable and very easy to work on when needed. The only thing I would say, if doing a lot of hard materials, go with the box way lathes. The newer of our lathes are linear way, and you can tell, but it is lightning fast.

Verisurf preferences....Display settings.....WCS Display settings.....Enable/Disable wcs axis. Hope that helps

I will look into the K-tool as well. 3.3 sec. per hole, now were talking We are currently milling these, and that would be a 1000 fold increase in productivity. Thanks guys, Have a good weekend.

Ex-wccprogrammer these are die cast in holes with about .025 stock for finishing. The bores have some intrupted cut areas with cross holes and slots. Robk, I didn't realize Kennametal made a twin bore, we are mainly a Iscar user. The iscar though is a custom, which means a long lead time and I'm sure expensive, being these parts are already in house, I need something asap. I will look into the Kennametal and criterion heads, I do appreciate the feed back, please keep it coming as I need to make a decision early next week on a product choice.

Looking for some input on these boring heads from the Guru's. We have some production parts I would like to implement these on and looking for some feedback from any users. We have 8,000 + hole's to do roughly 1.75dia x2.25 dp. , I also looked into Big kaiser brand, but the tech was out on demo days, and the parlec brand if far cheaper. Just wondering if the tool is good quality and able to be balanced to run at high speeds. The parts are Die cast Aluminum.

Could be a glitch in the Haas, we have had similar issues with our VF5. Wear comp had to be set .0023 big on a finish Mill to cut a hole to size, in fact still runs this way today. One of our programmers did a program using control comp., which worked fine, then when we set back up a production job using wear and it all went south! The holes cut all over the place, we are talking .075 to .125 big. Haas tech's said "well, I don't know exactly, only seen that happen a few times". I cannot wait to get rid of that thing, seemed nice and cheap when we bought it in 2011, lesson learned, You get what you pay for! We have had more issues than I care to say, but now I know for sure they are junk, being that your comp. is off the exact same amount as our's. I will give you another head's up, take out the tool pot dampener before it starts wrecking holders or your probe. We found some machines come with and some without, they are not needed and tool change is much quieter without them in. IMO, they are a throw away machine, so make your money fast.

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Check out OSG Exocarb brand drills, we have one running a production job that has drilled a 1/2" hole 2.8 deep in over 2200pcs. Have never looked back since. This is drilling in cast aluminum and various 6061 parts with thru coolant, shows hardly any edge wear. I figure its good for atleast another 2-3 thousand parts, now that drill is paying for itself 10x over.

The test we are referring to, is for a CNC Programmer/Set-up. We are pretty easy going at our shop, but I'm over stupid, and you can't fix that. Hmm, I thought speeds and feeds were pretty basic, and if you don't know the coord. system, that's a wreck waiting to happen. All basic knowledge Q's here, it's only $200,000+ machinery so who wants anyone but the top 30%. At 25+ an hr and full benefits, you had better know your stuff. I have had guys that thought they did, and have marks in our fixtures, 5ax trunnions and such to prove they didn't. Better to weed out the bad one's from the door IMO. The lack of quality training is a major problem in our field today, and If you are any good, your a shop leader or owner. The rest are glorified button pushers. It's a never ending problem w/o a good solution that we all face. To many will not take the time to learn the trade! We offer paid training, few take it. And the one's that do, then feel you owe them more, or they take their new skill's elsewhere. Funny what they didn't know before they started. My brother a tool maker say's it best, they will never feel the way you do, they don't have the stress or overhead of owning a shop to do so. Funny how neat some guys tool boxes are, because they paid for the tools. Scrap a few expensive parts or crash, and we get a sorry, well, see ya tomorrow.

We have a pretty basic one here, amazing how many cannot answer half the questions. Label the cartesian coord. system, RPM for and edge finder, how to find the tilt pt. for 5ax work, speeds and feeds for a few drills(give them the SFM for material and Drill Dia.) This is hilarious sometimes, 7/8 drill in CDS, 8-10,000 rpm, I always ask if they are welding. Pitch dia. on a few threads, random drill dia.'s for common taps they should know(#7 for a 1/4-20 etc.) And sample programs for the hire position. Such as, for our lathe test we have it actually crash(only on paper) because we give them jaw grip length and part length to see if they catch it. Or a facing pass without a G1, which the previous move was a rapid. Also some basic machine G & M codes common to most machines. Hope that helps, good luck. And If you find any worth hiring, send them our way, LOL!

It can be done in MC, use the Boolean operations under the Solids drop down menu.

A couple of photos as promised, hoping to have it up and running soon. It was a crazy busy day, I cant wait to try out all the new Fanuc options.

Doosan DNM400HS 31I A5 control, all the goodies on the control, and the Komo. Can't wait till Tuesday, I will post pics.

Here is a pic. of it's bigger brother, Tn-201. It has treated us well over the years, still holds tenth's. Can't say enough good things about Komo and Doosan.

Some of the parts for our new machine have shown up today, the machine will be here on Tuesday!

We recently purchased a Doosan with the Big Plus, should be in here this week or the following, and we asked the same thing. We were informed it is OK to run regular tooling. But, we were also informed that running unapproved Big Plus tooling would void the spindle warranty. We will just be running standard Cat40 holders, as most all of our tooling is such. The Big plus may have it's place, the only thing that scares me is possible chips between the contact flange.

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Just an Idea, but couldn't you just save a block and the part in the correct position as a STL file. Then use that file to verify from?

I have a file I'm working on and noticed a possible problem. The solid I created doing a Bolean operation does not seem to have a history of the original block creation. It just states Body in the drop down. I created a 4x4x2 block and removed the contacting section of the part from this. I was able to modify the solids but whats weird no dirty operation resulted. Any ideas? I will call me reseller tomorrow to get the exact answer, but it was just bothering me now.

Signed up, and looking forward to it!

Hope this gets you making parts G20 (OD ROUGH RIGHT - 80 DEG. INSERT - CNMG-432) G0T1212 G97S819M03 G0G54X3.5Z.35 G50S2500 G96S750 Z.0963 X3.25 G71U.1R.015 G71P10Q20U.02W.01F.012 ***this line will alarm N10 G0 X2.8215S750 (ADDED G0, AND WORKS ON OUR PUMA) G1Z-.0086 G3X2.8815Z-.0612R.0613 G1Z-.129 X2.975 G3X3.0975Z-.1903R.0612 G1Z-.756 X3.1034Z-.925 N20X3.25 G0Z.0963 ( ROUGH FACE ) G96S200 G0Z.045 X2.8862 G72W.1R.015 G72P30Q40U.02W.01F.01 N30Z0.S200 G1X1.748 X-.0625 N40Z.045 G0X2.8862 G28U0.W0.M05 T1200 M01

Please add in a Lead in Feed overide to the Thread Mill T-path. It would be a wonderful thing! IMO

2010 model year, I got it figured out. I missed a invalid tool pre call of T1134, which then entered into Haas's tool life management and kicked the alarm. Funny how after running the crap out of this thing for 2 years, never had that happen. Learn something new every day.

Seems our Haas vf5 has decided to kick this alarm out say that all life of the tools group has expired, and needs to be reset. Funny thing is, were not using tool life management. Any Ideas on how to reset this, the thing is a big boat anchor right now. Thanks