Hello Collin, Off course we want to manage our tooling and we already know that implementation is going to be a long process that needs to be done carefully by the right employees. But in addition to tool management, we want the ability to have Wintool push the tools geometry to mastercam and Vericut. Upper management does not like having one tool library for Mastercam , one for Vericut and one for our tooling department. This is where the need came from. We are now in a trial period with Wintool and it looks good but I was asked to see if I could gather some informations from users not only Wintool company. Regards,

Hello Mike, I did send a message to Daniel a few days ago but I did not get any answer from him yet. I will try to contact GuessWho

Hello Mike, I know that, we talked on the phone a few months back about that subject. But upper management decided to not go with Zoller.

Hello, As the title says, does anybody use wintool to get the their tools from? We are now in the process of looking for a tool managing software and would like to know if anybody out threre uses this software. Is it good, what do you like/dislike about this software. Any comment will be appreciated. Regards,

Merci Martin

Hello, As the tiltle states, we are looking for the Korloy distributor in Canada. I can't seem to find it. Anyboby cans help me? Regards,

it's in the post processor. look for the .pst file that your control definition points to.

Hello, It can be done. We have done it. We started with the mplmaster post of this site and worked from there. You need to define your machine as a VTL in the control definition. We have the part on screen as the operator sees it on the machine. Part is vertical and the tools are at the right. The tricky part is to have the post posting the proper X sign (+ or -). For this, you need to play with this section of the post processor: Hope that helps,

Like Murlin said, Create a surface at the top of the funnel and add this surface to your toolpath either as a drive or a check surface. That should do the trick. HTH

We have it and what Collin Says is totally true. We saved a lot of time programming these parts. And the price dropped off drastically when we bough the software this spring... Regards,

Thanks JParis! I also thought that it was lost. Very usefull tool! Regards,

Hello, The dynamic milling database in the important topics is dead Does anybody know if the link still exists? Regards,

Glad to help!

Yes it is good, just don't forget to bring back the proper address for other canned cycles. If I read properly, your G83 will need peck1$ to be assigned letter I. Regards,

I don't know which post you are using, but in my posts it is all in the parc post block. Here is what 1 of mine looks like: parc #Select the arc output if (plane$ = zero & (arctype$ = one | arctype$ = four)) | #XY Plane (plane$ = one & (arctypeyz$ = one | arctypeyz$ = four)) | #YZ Plane (plane$ = two & (arctypexz$ = one | arctypexz$ = four)), #XZ Plane [ result = newfs(two, iout) result = newfs(two, jout) result = newfs(two, kout) ] else, [ result = newfs(three, iout) result = newfs(three, jout) result = newfs(three, kout) ] if (plane$ = 0 & arctype$ < five) | (plane$ = 1 & arctypeyz$ < five) | (plane$ = 2 & arctypexz$ < five) | full_arc_flg$, [ #Arc output for IJK # If you do NOT want to force out the I,J,K values, # remove the "*" asterisks on the *i, *j, *k 's below... if plane$ = zero, *iout, *jout, kout #XY plane code - G17 if plane$ = one, iout, *jout, *kout #YZ plane code - G19 if plane$ = two, *iout, jout, *kout #XZ plane code - G18 !i$, !j$, !k$ ] else, [ #Arc output for R if abs(sweep$)<=180 | (plane$ = 0 & arctype$ = five) | (plane$ = 1 & arctypeyz$ = five) | (plane$ = 2 & arctypexz$ = five), result = nwadrs(srad, arcrad$) else, result = nwadrs(srminus, arcrad$) *arcrad$ ] HTH

The link to the video does not work for me but if I understand the image, you want a toolpath that will rotate the tool to always be perpendicular to the cut while doing a circular interpolation in G02 or G03. The part does not rotate. If that is the case, I asked my reseller and they said that mastercam does not support such an option. Regards,

We also use it a lot of times. Very valuable tool for us

Hello all, After struggling for many days, I have managed to have mastercam do what I want by using a counter in the post and use dill parameters to know the retract position for inspection. Works as expected.

Hello, My boss would like me to modify the post to retract every 5 holes so we could do a check for some of our custom defined canned cycle. To do this, I need mastercam to pass to the post processor the number of holes the canned cycle wil machine. After opening the NCI, I could not find anything that contained the information for the number of holes. I did see that each hole is defined by nci gcode 100. I would like to know if there is a way for the post to count the number of Gcode 100 and put that value in a variable. How would I go by to count the number of Gcode 100 in the operation? Regards,

Thanks Colin I missed that one. Really appreciated.

Hello, I would like to know if the tool station number found when you define a lathe tool is stored in a parameter that I could capture in my post? If so, could you please tell me which one it is? Regards

Machineguy, We already have a laser here that our maintenance crew uses to adjust the machine. We are looking to see if there is something out there that could help us check if the machine is good in a shorter time than what the laser can. From what I could gather over the internet, is first laser the machine, then you need to check the machine from time to time using a ballbar and/or something then check the rotary axis of our 4 and 5 axis machines. Correct me if I am wrong. I do want to come up with the best solution possible for the company. Regards,

Thanks Matt, But we are located north of the border, in Canada. What we want is something we can use in house with our maintenance department.

Hello, We are just now starting to use probe routines but for the results to be accurate and trusted, we have to make sure that our machines are in good shape. I have been asked by my boss to look and try to find something to "calibrate" our machines. I found some laser and ballbar software from Renishaw and it looks good. I would like to know if these software are any good? How difficult is it to use them? Is there something else out there that I could not find? What do you guys use and/or do? We want to make sure we get the right products for our machines. Regards,

Tmorr, Have you got an answer for this? I would really like to implement this here also.