Can someone post a link to these new drivers for the 4000 FLX please?

Update on the Quadro FX 500

I just installed drivers from here:

http://www.pny.com/support/drivers/?prod=quadro

I had been using the Dell drivers. Things are much better now. Able to re-enable hardware acceleration.

SP1 installed

If you're planning to use solids, I'd stay away from the FX500. I have one and am trying to upgrade.

I've had problems with the little popup boxes that explain icons refusing to show up, and solids look crappy. Turning off hardware acceleration got the popup working.

If I click on a shaded solid it turns a funky color and Repaint doesn't clear it up. I have to turn Shading off and back on.

Can you get a sample of material and do some test cuts? I think it would be wise. See if your planned speed, feed, tool, and tool path work.

Welcome Zacs

Honestly, if you have the resources to obtain and run all that equipment and need to KEEP it running why not spend a few bucks and get some training?

Rob sitting on top of a huge pile of CDs throwing them in the air saying "mine, all mine."

Now that a few folks have started using X. Please post golden nuggets of advice here that us X noobs can read before installation.

Things like configuration tips, default settings, etc. Anything that you wish you had known day one with X.

Chaining in X: not for the timid.

LMAO at Jimmy

What's the machine?

2 Integrex 300Y

1 table top router

Not too close, you wouldn't want to get hurt when the mailman takes his shot

May I reiterate?

Any V9 option available now at half price that will see it's funtionality blossom in X should be made available at a discount when (ever) X appears. (like it essentially has for our good pal Gcode now)

Maintanance, offered as a buy now get X free later, has left an icky taste for many. Don't do that or anything remotely similar again.

If X has features that will make a V9 option shine, then it's really an X option not a V9 option. Offer the deal when X is reality.

I run small carbide drills in an air spindle at around 24000 rpm and feed about .00003" per flute and peck about .003" in 304 stainless.

Coolant access is a big deal. An ER16 collet will sling /block coolant and leave the tool dry.

I have good luck with .04" drills in a slender shrinker at 12000 rpm.

It's hard to specify the size of flutes on circuit board drills, but use the stiffest ones you can find. Some I've tried had a very roomy flute and the lack of tortional stiffness caused unpredicable life.

Mitsubishi makes some very nice small drills but they are very expensive.

Maybe I can try again.

If Verify in X works so sweet that after seeing X (some time in the future) and I'd say "shucks, I shoulda bought an upgrade to 9 when it was 1/2 price so I could use it now with X where it works much better than it did with 9." Grrr...

Does that make more sense?

If CNC is offering a half off deal on ANYTHING related to X that ends on July 31... I'd say they can extend the deal to the extent that X itself has been Xtended... Something on the order of a year.

I'm sure I am missing something here, but there is simply NO credibility to put "ends July 31" and "X" in the same context.

My $.02

Xform/Translate/V9.0/X

Works like a charm. Been using X for months... I thought EVERYONE knew about that one.

My understanding is: if you are using a machine axis to orient work and tool, use Cplane and Tplane. If you are using a fixture to orient work and tool, use WCS.

If you are drilling on the tailstock side face of a lathe part you will be using Side Cplane and Tplane.

That tool path ain't just blinky lights. There is very solid merit there. The local guy says it's patented. I guess that means that CNC should get working on a way to be 25% better.

Strangely, I know another Bryan Johnson (Part Factory) here in Minnesota that says the same thing as Bryan Johnson from TX.

No trial subscription.

Bryan says the work he's seen from there ended up at starvation bidding prices on awarded contracts. Part Factory is already a VERY low overhead, Very competitive, and VERY competant shop. If HE'S talking no profit margin in work from MFG Quote, forget about it.

Go Rick!

I've often wondered how many guys are doing REAL cool stuff that don't dare talk to us.

Check for post switch

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

#Machine axis switches, initial

y_axis_mch : no #Machine has Y axis, 0=no, 1=yes

The Integrex uses degree per minute feed rates. If motions are combinations of rotary axis and linear axis the rotary feed rate is used. If a motion is large in linear distance and small in angular distance the degree per minute feedrate will be very small compared to a move that is same total length but large angle and small linear. This is one aspect of the post that I haven't fully proven. I don't know what Mazak mills want and that's why I didn't speak up (thanks for thinking of me Jack).

If there is a machine parameter setting that chooses method A or method B, and method B is the obviously wise choice, Mazak will ship the machine set to A. Do what ever it takes to discover all related machine parameters and understand the options that they provide. Then check for post switches.

Have fun.

Just a couple tools to throw into the toolbox here.

There is an editor called Textpad (not to be confused with Notepad) that has Block Edit mode, I'd call it collumnar edit. Textpad's ability to edit vertical collumns of text along with a spreadsheet's ability to produce collumns of G76s, Is, Js, Es, or whatever can be used to cobble together some interesting code.

Save spreadsheet as .prn (space delimited text file) it will open perfectly in an editor.

How about posting a sample of the code you're running?