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finding center point of circle that doesn't have one
DUM1 replied to jonathan joseph's topic in Industrial Forum
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pointed this out to another programmer that USED to work here and told him basically the same thing that Mr. crazy mill man said . He doesn't work here anymore so I get to fix the programs that he didn't when the operators come in and ask why so slow ? I personally only use helix for roughing and that's pretty rare.
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Good Experience with Mastercam Mill-Turn and New Integrex?
DUM1 replied to MechMonk's topic in Industrial Forum
After the crash o matic boss that opted for esprit was let go I finally talked them into mastercam been all rosy since ... -
Good Experience with Mastercam Mill-Turn and New Integrex?
DUM1 replied to MechMonk's topic in Industrial Forum
No longer have the integrex , very cool but it was a troublesome machine had many issues . Some were operator enhanced, had a boss that thought he knew it all , crashed the thing , "catastrophic" crashes three times in the 2 years he was here . Getting a good post from esprit proved impossible , we didn't have mastercam at the time , wish we did I would have probably gotten better faster results. Ended up hand programming most of the time in mazatrol, which I call the liars software , because I always had to lie to it to get it to do what I wanted to do . On the OD and ID I would get about .013" change throughout the day other axis a bit less. Had to set a timer to change comps every hour or so to hold print tolerances. Had some huge runs of large parts , helicopter rotor housings , constant fight to hold tolerances on all features due to thermal movement of the machine. Mazak support was the worst I've ever encountered , one day shortly after warranty time they came in and basically said we don't support these machines anymore , at all . Now its a generic cnc service company which has proven to do a better job then Mazak did back when anyway. We still rock mazak horizontal and vertical machines which I think are great machines . I was pretty glad the day it "the integrex" got sold though , took a huge load off my plate . I wish you the best of luck on the new Machine , they are really cool and very capable of making good parts with the right programmer/machinist running them . I would just leave the whole "operator" scenario off \away from it. -
got me thinking about how to do it on the regular swarf machining its different from the 5 axis swarf path so I added a floor surface beyond what i deeded and went from there .
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hmm ,, got me , good luck with that
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ahh , that would explain one of my padawanns had an effed up program and I was banging my head trying to get to the bottom of his trouble , pretty sure that's what happened. had to go back and change all the planes and re set some of the depths to get him straightened out
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inside the chaining window there is a settings sprocket for chaining options got that all dappend up right?
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hard to say , it works fine for me , check chaining settings in config make sure you don't have the reverse inner clicked?
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Off-Topic: My house and car were destroyed last night
DUM1 replied to Colin Gilchrist's topic in Industrial Forum
So glad you and yours are ok , you keep on counting those blessings . I have had a ton of them in my life and thank the maker every day for the time above ground . sending some love , hope it all goes well -
CONGRATS ! I too have recently entered the fifth axis world , and I would have agree that it is kind of tough , especially when you have no training or help . So glad to have this forum to turn to when I get stumped , there are a lot of smart people here.
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on the verify tab to the right there is a button save stock as stl , this will give you a mesh model to use on other ops if you want that kind of stock or on the home tab to the far right is save as a presentation which allows others to view the presentation without mastercam , just as a visual
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you are correct the original goal of this post was not achievable to mill the profile and chamfer it with the rotary of the table at cobo I don't have camplete . the closest I got was to mill the .015 step with it at 90 and to chamfer it at 90 , which isn't really what I wanted to do . again thanks for trying to helping
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thanks Colin and G code and everyone else who helped out !
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UP DATE ! I think I got it now , think this will work ,? cant wait to try it umc tesst ROTARY TEST 2020.mcam
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its the flag holder plaque , it does look pretty good with ole glory hanging above it on a bright clear winter morning
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not really much more then I already said in the previous post , messing with the step over changes the results, as far as the un uniform traces go .
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there were a few "snail trails , as you can see the ones that aren't uniform but there were only a few and they too were kind of uniform and by playing around with it a bit i could have got it closer to complete uniform , but yes there are almost always some kind of darn its, that you just run out of time on and have to move on
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when im after a pleasing look i go with true spiral from inside to out , start at center , there is a lot of "air time " but it comes out uniform, and aesthetically pleasing .
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not a huge fan of the circle mill when its tricky I usually revert to pocket
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thanks for the replies guys no I don't have camplete , was lucky to get mastercam , was using ONE CNC for about five years here before I finally talked them in to getting mastercam I'm glad it wasn't something stupid simple though since I spent about 4 hours banging my head. the parts are done but I really need this for me I've been trying the 5 axis paths and still cant get the effect COLIN, I'll keep trying when I have time though , This really bugs me because I can program it at the machine but not on mastercam.
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seems like it should be easy ,, I have a part that's outside my travel of course and want to rotary cut the profile and chamfer i can get a rotary cut at a b 90 but cant get one at c0 b0 any help would be greatly appreciated thanks in advance umc tesst ROTARY TEST.mcam
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Using multiple stock elements in one file for simulation.
DUM1 replied to JB7280's topic in Industrial Forum
run verify, save as stl file type, use file of stl for verify -
HAAS 1500 DUO WISH LIST , https://www.haascnc.com/video/what-s-new-marketing-video/XANtrePfYxU.html I did design a pretty slick sub plate but my shop never let me build it , it's on my downloads if you want to take a look . We did end up going with fifth axis all though I gotta say some of there .0005 self centering vises were pretty loose and junky , after i contacted them they just kept shuffling me around , never got it rectified . out of 20 some vices though there were 3 that were bad . I do like their products though. I love the ease of use of the 750 probably my favorite machine ever to run and to program for.
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