Does anyone here on the forums work for Siemens industry? If I am not allowed to ask this question just let me know lol. I just want to ask some questions about the company in general.

Hello everyone I was just wondering if anyone has a Post and control file for a Takumi CNC with a Mitsubishi Meldas 500 control. I need it for MX6. We just bought one used and it is about to get up and running. Thanks Ken W.

if your cutting with a high speed cutter I would go 50 sfm, that's 151 rpm and .003 per tooth that is 3.6 ipm. should cut like butter after you cut the center slot out.

I been round a bit, been a machinist 25 years and running CNC for 18 of those. Not sure what kind of scales you got on your machine but alot of scales when they get oil on them or dirt on them they will just take off. I had this happen to me when i was threading a 40 inch nut, with #2 acme. and it wasnt a pretty site lol. It was on a 80" VTL with Allen Bradley 8000 series controls. I am not sure what kind of scales newer machines use though.

I never ran across that before, I learned something today. Thanks everyone Ken

Ok thanks guys greatly apreciate it

I am trying to 2D swept each ring seperatly and i get this warning WARNING THE ACROSS CONTOUR DOES NOT LIE IN A DEFINE VIEW. I would apreciate the help to get this corrected. I never saw this error before. 4-190922.zip

Never mind, I saw that you created a new level and i see what you did now. Thanks for the tip Dieselpower1

Dieselpower1 thanks a bunch i never used that option before. Im just trying to figure out how you selected the geometry to make it toolpath. I got another one i have to do and was trying to figure out where you selected chain point 7 at. I figured out chain point 1 and 6.

I figured maybe you guys can try seeing if you can get it to come out the same, All i wanted to do was ramp down the 5 degrees to finish on both sides. the Center will already be cut out. And the OD would also be finished with a 4" t-slot cutter in 2D tool pathing.Like i said before, I am pretty proficient in Mastercam. I have no clue why it is doing what it is doing. Maybe some one with MU1 can copy and paste the 1st toolpath and see if it comes out the same. This way I know my recent update to MU2 is the Problem.

Yes i tried that. I recently installed MU2 not sure if that has anything to do with it

Its because I changed them already after I copied and pasted, trying to figure it out. That is why there not the same.

Yes I did Copy and paste , its what i always do and i reselect my geometry. I might have changed stuff around since I copied and pasted to try and get it working correctly but it is not working . I will be using 2d to do the OD but when i put a .062 radius in my cutter it cuts past the finished OD. So i put a .001 radius in tool and just going to take smaller cuts. the OD is held within .003 thousands btw. Don't really know away around messing with the radius of a tool

lol that darn attach file button got me C-34950.zip

hmm i had an attachment lol let me try again

First off I am really good at Mastercam but for some reason this is not working out. I feel stupid lol anyways im trying to make operation 2 exactly like Operation 1 but for some reason it will not work correctly. I want to cut the whole groove at once but for some reason Mastercam is not cooperating with me today. Here is the Program. Any thoughts please let me know. Thanks Ken

Thanks for the info people i really appreciate it. I will talk to our computer guy and see if he will uninstall it to get it to work.

I don't think its the Anti virus. We got AVG on all the computers and it installed on the others fine.

I have this computer and it wont install X6. The attached File is the error. MX6 ERROR.rtf

OK that fixed it, It works fine now like it should lol

i just downloaded it and installed it an hour ago, will try in a little to see if that fixed it. thanks for the replies

I always click set to main level. Like I said I did this in X5 just fine its just my X6 isn't doing it correctly.

Does anyone else have a problem with coping and pasting from one level to another. I Would copy some holes and paste them to another level and the only way they would show up and actually copy is being on the level you want and showing the level you want to paste from. And yes my copy to current level is checked. This worked fine in MX5. I am doing the same exact thing I did with MX5 just not sure if MX6 changed something somewhere. In MX5 I would copy a item and then go to the level I wanted it on and turn all levels off so I can actually see if it copies then hit CTR V to paste, and it would show up In MX6 it actually moves the items to the current level unless you have both levels on. This is puzzling me. Anyways nice to meet you all this is my first post on the boards.