Maybe containment is set to out side?

Moving to 2018 trying to get every thing set up. Adding new tabs works great, undocked levels manager and planes manager and current tasks page, love it. added extra change levels icons in QA toolbar (I can not seem to find one to put in the ribbon bars?). But i can not seem to change the spin controls from .1 or 1 degree, changed it in config but it does not do any thing. hopefully there's an answer. and also the space bar does not work to zero out the fields? Otherwise 2018 is working great!

Ron we built that exact computer it is fast but not a lot faster then My I74790 with K2000 @4.00? we will have to do some time checks next week.

It seems like lately the attempt to improve the process takes more time then the improvement will save, even when its more then 50 percent savings???? is changing the feed rate reprogramming is changing depth of cut reprogramming is changing to a dynamic path reprogramming? most people do not even know what a program is. how would they now if you changed it. Cutter comp, only computer or wear. if you forget to put a number in for cutter comp the part will be scrap end end mill broken off.

That is the first thing i do after opening masteracam????why

Sorry, looked at a second time, i was thinking it was laptop spec, I will print and send to IT builder, thanks!!

Well what should we build, we well be getting a desk top built in the next couple of weeks for one of are primary programmers. Time is money so it needs to be fast. .01% faster for a extra grand ??? 10%faster for a grand!!!

Good thread, we need a few new computers also, we do a lot of 3 axis surfacing a lot of models have 10,000 to 40,000 surfaces. all are computers are I7 and have graphics cards I would think 3-5 grand would be in the budget maybe more if you don't have to wait. what is a realistic capital investment .

Millstar with HSM work vary well 1200 cfm in p-20.

go to wrench one were the tool change stuff is and soft key over for options it will also have conveyor reverse and hyspeed.

Turn the grease pump on in the options area. it will run until it pressers up.

You probably broke a grease line. Every 510 we have has broken the line behind the table between the y and x.

I know switching from v9 to x2 with in one day it was better, switching from X9 to 2017 after a month it is worse, if the quick access toolbar was bigger and better I would not mind it to bad. THE TOOL BARS ARE MY LIFE, ONE CLICK!

Unrelated but today i herd are local machine tech college only had 9 people enrolled, 15 years ago there was 100 or more. People do not know how every thing is made and do not care! It might get interesting in the next decade.

The air chains are great!

we have been using opti ruff with iscar fast feed with great successes you are always in a climb mill state with controlled engagement so spindle load is constant and tool life is great! way faster then the old trusty surface rough pocket. you can go max depth of feed mill and max chip load, play with step over until you like the way its cutting.

just make it to cad

you can also drag them around and move them to the right so you do not see them unless you use the slider to look at them

in your post you need to have the machine home out in the beginning of the program, to prevent index close to part or into part, but you should be programming in absolute so moving machine off home should not matter to ware it is cutting. there should be a parameter to only let the machine index at home or at a given spot to index. that would be better for mdi mode and you wont have to change your post.

make your own library, every time you make a tool save it to the library, its 2 clicks, after that its one click to open library one double click to pick tool and return to tool page. make lots of library's, for different materials different machines what have you, you can put notes in the tool description (some odd tool you yous wants a year) its limitless. not having a library is almost as bad as not setting the operation defaults to a good starting point. and if you run different stuff on different machines, pre heat, mold base, cut trodes, hard mill, you should have different op defaults for different machines, pick the machine and it goes to the defaults for the machine and the tool library.

that is the peck, just like the picture on the page be side it?

i will try that next time, thank you.

some times i think this is the problem Front page Main blog Machining blog goatchurch Freesteel Blog » Steel cutting of shapes Steel cutting of shapesMonday, January 25th, 2016 at 1:42 pm Written by: Julian Here’s a quick offering from the “Well it’s better than nothing video editing department”. This is the result of 2 days of cutting from short videos taken with my camera. (I’ve got no talent with video editing.) I learnt one heck of a lot in the process. Steel is really difficult to work with Small 3mm cutters are easy to snap The spindle is under-powered Big 6mm cutters can handle being bent when the spindle stalls if you hit stop soon enough You can drop the feedrate briefly to stop the spindle stalling Multiple cutters with rest machining are essential 0.1mm stepovers are a better than 0.2mm I probably need a tapered cutter to create a draft angle Clamps are a real hassle; I’m going to get a vice The noise of the machine sounds terrible, but nobody has complained yet because it doesn’t seem to carry into the hallway My 3D printed ductwork for automatically hoovering out the chips was a failure; I need to prod in the nozzle by hand to remove the chips I was using the Adaptive Clearing toolpaths in Autodesk Fusion, which I had spent 10 years developing before and after it got sold to AD. It sucked in several ways that I did not know about, because I’d never used it myself to get something I wanted to get done. I always said I ought to have been put on the job of using CAM software to cut steel on a machine in a factory for a couple of months at some point in my career before being allowed to continue writing software that didn’t quite do stuff right. People get into positions like I was, and seem to do pretty well, but should get the opportunity to go back and fill in some gaping holes in their experience. The problems I found were: 1) Adaptive takes too long time to calculate small stepovers when clearing around a tongue of material and it has to turn right towards the material to stay in contact. This is probably because the sample rate has to go very small in order to maintain engagement when it does its straight line forward samples. It should detect these situations and do its initial step forward with a curve to the right so that begins with being engaged on the first sample and doesn’t need to resample backwards blindly until it makes contact again. 2) The helix ramp down pitch was not linked to the tiny stepover I was setting and I couldn’t see how to change it. I had to hack the G-code directly. 3) In spite of claims to the contrary and it being mathematically accurate, I am sure that the load going into the corners is higher than when the flank cutting is on the straight. I can hear the spindle being slowed down. This could be because the chip length is longer for the same chip width. The chip length is the distance around the circumference of the cutter that is tearing off the metal, and it can approach a semicircle in a tight corner, or be insignificant when it first engages with the 90degree outer corner of the stock. Now a real machine tool probably has so much angular momentum in the spindle that no one is going to notice this, but on some underpowered low-spec experimental device, such as this, it becomes apparent. That’s why future innovations would happen here, and are unlikely on the big machines where you don’t notice the flaws. I can now pretty much see how companies like IBM missed the first wave of the PC, which were toy devices in comparison to the big mainframes they were playing with. Nobody was ever going to do any real work on those barely-up-to-scratch microcontroller-based computers with deplorable amounts of RAM, audio cassette tapes for backup, a complete joke parody of an operating system from Microsoft, and a lack of customers able to pay big bucks. Most of the professional engineers in the world (software and hardware) had all the access they needed to mainframe computers in their workplace or university institutions to do fluid dynamics or graphics or simulations. I’m sure when some overly keen teenager came along with their toy machine he’d soldered together, they put him in his place with a back-of-the-envelope calculation of how many centuries it would take that Apple2 to do something real, like predict tomorrow’s weather, which was something they could do with their latest cool CrayXMP super-computer machines. PCs were obviously an utter waste of time, and because was clear where the cutting edge was if you wanted to actually get stuff done. Sure, you could say this left a huge gap in the economy for new tech billionaires to emerge and for IBM to eventually become an embarrassment, but think about the wasted capital and precious engineering time of talented people who should have been deployed to make this microcomputer tech good from the beginning. MS/DOS and MSWord might not have existed in the horrible no-good forms they did had it not been left only to people who didn’t know what they were doing and had to learn as they went along, thus locked in their anti-productive design mistakes into the way this tech worked for the next 30 years. Meanwhile I’ve no idea what I am doing. Should I spray WD-40 onto the metal while it is cutting? Monday, January 25th, 2016 Written by: Julian Adaptive, Machining Trackback URL for this entry 1 Comment 1. Greg H. replies at 26th January 2016, 1:00 pm : You took the words from my mouth. I have been posting on the HSMWorks forum for a long time that development should run machines with the code they develop. Or development should hire seasoned machinists to run the code. Relying on customer feed back is the lazy way out and not very productive. As for coolant you want a coolant that is for cutting steel. WD-40 is OK for non-ferrous materials like alum, brass, copper. It is better than nothing at all on steel. I’m sure there is a machine shop near by, they will loan you some for the steel. Your machine seems a bit flimsy. Have a good one!

makino to hass is not rely a fair comparison. Three years ago we bought a 510 mazack for less the 10,000 more then a hass the same size. but if you could set up well the machine is running in a job shop!! hopefully you wont run out of programs to run.