Sorry for the delay. Yes email mail to: wire [at] mastercam [dot] com. Roger was able to provide one for me.

I may be totally off base here, but are your tool planes and construction planes correct? Should they be TOP=>FRONT=>FRONT ? I also noticed that your rapid distance is set to .8. and your entry feed distance is set to 1.0. I changed the planes to TOP=>FRONT=>FRONT and changed the rapid distance to 2. and air move distance to 2. and everything looks good. As far as the over-engagement of the tool, check the ramp length. I changed it to 25% and it looks good.

That is good to know. I wish I had checked the forum this morning. This bug just bit me.

I was wondering if I would need to cancel each time. I was hoping to avoid that but I will give it a shot. Thank you.

It is staying in the G81 cycle. As far as the unlocking of the B axis, I haven't found any codes in the manual for unlocking the axis.

I have been plagued with an issue on this machine for some time now. The manual is not very helpful in this case. During a drill cycle and rotating B axis to another location (while still in the cycle) the feed between holes remains at the drilling speed. Is there a way to change this? Am I missing something?

Try this video. It shows the various ways a peel mill toolpath can be chained.

Ron, A different approach would be to use a Seco high feed mill. We use them on our low rigidity machines and/or when somewhat of a long over hang is necessary. I'm not sure which method would give you a higher mmr tho.

I had a similar issue. Any time i selected anything from the menu bar the screen would flash and the dialogue box would never show up. It ended up being the driver for the graphics card. Once I rolled back the driver, everything started working just fine.

We use several of these. It is a most excellent tool.

I highly recommend Helical Carbide endmills. I just finished up a Titanium 6al-4v job where the machine was running 56ipm with a .125 bull endmill, .150 adoc and .007 stepover. I really feel it could have been ran faster.

select "change program #" under the edit selected operations menu.

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check the "Retract" box

I checked that. this is on a 2 axis wire burn. everything looked fine. It posted just fine friday. i only posted it again to see if it was just the file i started this morning.