Sorry to hear the news, Rick. Glad you're getting around. Bike accidents suck.

Use a single point tool and the cleanup pass won't wreck the part. A threadmill does you no good anyway since all cutting is done with one tooth as the helix runs outside to inside. If that dosn't work for you use G130. Use Mastercam to create a drilling operation for the holes you want to threadmill. Set macro variables via Manual Entry at start of drilling operation. Edit G83 data and replace with G130R#18Z#26D# etc. The G130 toolpath allows you to choose final arc cleanup or not. I'm not sure if G130 can be used to get a short helix directed inside to outside as you'd probably prefer for threadmilling. Our new machine is KM. I'm going to set up the new machine with tool definitions optimized for EIA. Not even going to turn softjaws with Mazatrol on the new machine till after the EIA definitions are establisted.

Circle mill tornado = 1. Set helix pitch = thread pitch. Set hole OD = thread OD. Outside to inside direction only. Right hand screw = right hand helix. Will be conventional milling. It will work with B axis at angles other than zero or 90. Do the math carefully for start points. HTH Sorry for slow reply, been super busy.

Just curious, do they have CNC worthy data for turning pipe threads yet?

Welcome to the forum Engineer. What kind of machine do you have? Post some details so some knowlegeable soul can help out. We've got router guys, and trunion guys and mill-turn guys Integrex 300Y MK1, soon 300Y MK3 Mill 3, Lathe, Solids

You get prompted somewhere. Create the operation and post it. A prompt should appear. Hey Dave! the new machine can do live 5!! We'll have to turn the prompt back on sometime.

Old Stillwater lift bridge 10:00 PM, right in the middle of the St. Croix. Doesn't get any better. BOOOM

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How far to the bar? I'm only getting about 78 meters.

Let me see if I can understand this. Moral guilt = actual guilt = guy did crime Legal guilt = actual guilt - N(technicalities) = guy did crime but someone else gets blamed so that libs feel process was fair. Harryman teh, I morally hit a Jeep with my bike last week but the guy who painted the car I was gawking at needs to pay. WOO HOO!

Harryman, the pencil-neck biker machinist posing as computer geek occasionally poking fun at our no-neck bouncer posing as programmer, and programmers posing as pain-in-the-neck writers. If I failed to poke fun at anyone, please look for my new thread / poll "Do you need a poking?"

quote: No more exciting than getting a new machine I'm hoping it will be less work.

Cutter comp off, lead in tangent or off, no arc, program center of tool. Without Y axis you'll have to live with the size of groove the end mill gives you.

I'm currently installing a new Integrex. If the CD came today I'd have to ignore it for a month.

Check out Iskar, maybe a square shank tool with short chunk of cut off blade.

Do you want to machine the face of the lathe part or the side? You should be able to add either to the 2D unless there is some other feature at a different C axis angle. Did you want to use an end mill or a keyseat cutter?

Many more!

I keep wondering what this poetry would sound like if I could speak Russian, English, Hebrew, hex... Jack on crack... ROFL

Thread mill. Throw taps away and save workpiece blanks.

8,9,10... OK now the shoes...18,19,20 Welcome to the forum. Harryman, still_got_me_hearing and green things in_me_ears

How did I miss reading THIS one for so long?? SO FUNNY! quote: What's .44 magnum Been so long since I shot mine I can hardly remember Each time that I go to the range after a long hiatus... BANG Oh yeah, That's the stuff Happines is a warm Redhawk.

So Cool Hold that family together no matter what, John. Solid families make solid society.

I never thought I'd see this day. We are buying a new Integrex MKIII 300Y. Looks like many improvements have been made over the MKI, and thanks to Dave Thompson's post, we should be in great shape for good code. Sure is fun when business is on the upswing. The last couple years, till about January just STANK!

Could your machine require 1000 rather than 1.0 (millisecond units no decimal) for a 1 second dwell?