.2833 lbs per sqaure inch

Other than a probe this is the way to go. You can buy an import brand cheaper, but Blake is the way to go. jm2c.

8:37 Dell M90 Laptop T7200 processor 2GB RAM NVIDEA Quadro FX 2500M 100 GB SATA 150 @ 7200RPM 90% Toolpath RAM Allocation Display surface/plane intersections: OFF

quote: Besides most people don't use the search feature anyway so they're just gonna ask the questions anyway. Sorry to say James, I have to say might actually be wrong on this one. I have used it 100's of times as I am sure other people have too. I'd whack the ot threads first and go back as far as needed in the main forum as far as deleting stuff. Besides if it was off topic, we'll just talk about it again.

We had one done for under $1000 one time and not long thereafter it got crashed again. Mount a die grinder with a stone in it to the table, turn on the spindle and feed the machine at the correct angle and do it yourself. Not really all that complicated. Jm2c.

Yep, leaves the whole 1st monitor for graphics. Very sweet!

I am referring to two hasp's that have Mastercam on them with different options basically. The Verisurf one doesn't allow the cam, solids, lathe, extra converters, etc to open and the Mcam one obviously won't open Verisurf. I basically need one hasp to open X so I can program and the other one to open 9 (Verisurf). Any ideas other than the swaparoo?

I have a quick question on this one.... Is there any way to use 2 hasps simaltaneously? We just got a hasp with verisurf and then have the Mcam hasp. I keep swapping them out when playing with our laser and making programs for the machines. I can see others using the verisurf hasp later on down the road, so I can't see them ever being combined into one hasp if that would even be an option. My best bet is having the IT dept get me a hub so I can swap them on my desk instead of climbing back where the puter is. Any suggestions?

Just got a Faro Tracker Xi here a couple of weeks ago with Verisurf software. No complaints at all so far. Both the folks at Faro and Verisurf have been really helpful.

10 minutes 14 seconds Pentium 4 - 3.4 (800mhz FSB)(with HT) 4 gig pc3200 RAM XP Pro sp2 GeForce FX 5950 Ultra X2 SP1 & X2 MR1 SP1 Tried them both with identical times.

If you weren't out all night binge drinking, maybe you would have gotten up in time. j/k

Robert, Wouldn't it be cheaper to order 2 seperate monitors for close to about 1/2 the price?

Why does everyone always bash the whole control comp thing? What is so difficult about putting in the actual diameter or radius in the control and using control comp? Whatever you want your lead in/lead out to be enter it in Mcam, enter it in the box and add the radius of your tool? If I call out a 1" em and it's been reground to .930", they throw .465" radius or a .930 diameter in the control and it runs fine. Say a hot job comes rolling in here at 1 in the morning and has to be back to the customer at 7 am. Is the operator/machinist working midnights supposed to figure out all his coordinates and then subtract the cutter radius before entering them in the control before he runs his own program just so he can use wear? That sounds absurd. I can see if your a 1 man shop or EVERYTHING gets programmed offline then that would work fine. But when you have people programming at the machine, and offline, cutter comp in the control is the easiest way to go. JM2C.

Mclaren, There is a switch in the post so that you can program horizontals with the top view as your work plane. I program both horizontals and our vertical in the top plane.

Side by side here. quote: I have 9.1 still, just in case ....j/k I tried a few different versions of X and could not get a 3d contour to work while using contol comp. I actually had to go to 9.1 MR0105 to get it to work.

Hardmill, Alright, enough is enough. You owe me a brand new keyboard for that one. Apparently I need to get one that is waterproof that can handle the soda coming out of the nose. LMFAO.

We have a few HBM's here that also have the "W" thing going on. Ours are hard coded like John said at W-4 in the post. We also have a misc real set up so that we can change it if need be. We normally just leave it at -4 and let the operators take care of it though.

Bump quote: Ok, back to the first question........ ARE there any other libraries?

Dan, If you are using X. Select the first group of operations you want to verify. After it is done verifying, with the verification popup stil open click on the icon that looks like a disk and that will save it as an stl. Exit verify and select the last operation you want to verify and then go back into verify. In that verify popup click the yellow icon in the same row that the disk was on all the way on the left. Change the stock option in the upper left corner top "file" and then pick your stl you just saved and verify from that. HTH

Do as dcapps said quote: 1-Verify the first ops in turbo 2-Save as stl 3-Verify last op against stl Verify the first operations, after it is done, save it as an stl from within verify. Exit verify and pick your last op. Select your stl as your file and then just verify the last operation.

Not sure what you are classifying as the 800mm James, but yes technically I guess you could say they are larger machines. When I see a HBM with a 3" spindle, I think that is small. "Normal" to me is anywhere from a 4"-7" spindle. I can't even fathom what in the world you would do with 40,000 rpm. 3500 is max here and that's on our vertical Mazak. I need to get out more.

I never see the names G&L, Union or Stanko in here, but that's what I program and they all have there postives and negative, but overall have been very reliable machines running 24/7. Just a few more brands to throw at ya.

daryl_y, The heidenhain post we had our reseller request from In house works great. We did some tweaking here to get each post to work correcly with each machine we have. The posts were fairly easy to dial in to each machine. We just tackled one object at a time in them. No hand editing programs at all, just post and run.

Here is another one just around the pond. Our contact is Joe Wallace Crown Industrial Supply Co. 847-871-5200 401 Taft Drive South Holland, Il 60473

Nothing but control here. All of our machines like it and so do the machinists. Trying to convert them over would be a waste of time. quote: I see a huge disavantage to using control because of the lead-in. All you do differently is add 1/2 the cutter diameter to what you want your lead in to actually be. Being a job shop we can't write every program, so some of the guys will write there own and it is much easier to use comp on the machine and just duplicate that for them when we program them in mcam.