1 minute ago, AMCNitro said:

Flowline.  Just make the surface shorter or the endmill will hit the ends

using project I just cut the ends of the contour by half of the cutter or at least that's what I,m trying I,m still working on it but think I,m getting closer using the suggestions from here

Just now, megabyte said:

Did you use surface rough project or finish project?

thanks, stupid me I used rough

how do I stop it from starting to high up I just need a few passes near the bottom

Just now, ajmer said:

yes or you add stock to leave in the 2d contour and regen all the ops

 

thanks I will give it a try

Just now, ajmer said:

yes seems the whole lower edge is undercut

I see it now did not know it was there ,using someone elses model.Another ?,if I offset that curve a little bit can I get it to work

1 minute ago, ajmer said:

i think it is because e the curve you have picked is actually under your surface

it "works" for the contour but when you use a surface toolpath it stops when it cannot go past teh green surface

hope that makes sense

do mean there is an undercut that I haven't seen ?

thanks guys I have never used project this is what I got what did I do wrong

top plate.mcam

hi guys I,m trying to drive my cutter to the bottom of the green surface but it doesn't  seem to want to go I need as square a corner as I can get.I realize I wont be able to get right to bottom due to the twist in this fixture but I do need to get it close.Any ideas? Thanks

top plate.mcam

5 hours ago, Chally72 said:

That's a ~19mb .dll file located exactly where the message says. It is necessary to run verify/machine sim. Check your recycle bin and search for MachSim.dll and see if you can find it- it was deleted or moved somehow.

so I have been fighting this issue all day with no luck ,decided to try a computer reboot  and what do you know it now works

4 hours ago, Chally72 said:

That's a ~19mb .dll file located exactly where the message says. It is necessary to run verify/machine sim. Check your recycle bin and search for MachSim.dll and see if you can find it- it was deleted or moved somehow.

so I checked  and the file is where its suppose to be it just seems like MC either cant find it or read it

never seen this before,when I go to verify this message comes up please help thanks

thanks guys I did not see that

why does my tool gouge into the surface ,the surface looks good and that don't happen on a flowline toolpath to often,Thanks

mur.mcam

9 minutes ago, C^Millman said:

Morph between 2 curves if you have the Multiaxis ability. Tell it in axis control 3 Axis. I used the Extend/Trim on the Cut pattern Page. I then extended the start and exit .02 to have it come off and on the edges .02. I also used Orthogonal entry and exit on the linking and changed it on the default lead-in/out.  Here is the link for the file from dropbox.

Thanks ron but we dont have multi axis,Just wondering you taught me about the direction feature how come i cant get the exit part

1 hour ago, JParis said:

I saved the toolpath as geometry...created a point...I then used the tool path editor to move that z retract out to the point

jmp_mur.mcam

Thanks jp i,m at home now i will check it out tmo when i get to work.I was trying to use the direction feature but couldnt quite get the exit part

I need some help with the exiting of the cutter I have the lead in fine cant seem to get lead out without it retracting into part.Thanks

mur.mcam

1 minute ago, C^Millman said:

Fixture all the way 2 operations and done. Vice will influence the material you want it as free as possible for machining.

I totally agree with fixturing if more than 1 part

can you start with bigger piece ,clamp on outside,machine everything but outside ,move clamps to inside then machine outside profile

10 minutes ago, Machineguy said:

We switched to Mobil SCH 625 as requested by Haas about 2 years ago. Both the lathe and mill. We had a spindle go bad after 5 yrs.

 It was about $5000 exchange plus about 5 hrs change out. Hass flushed the system and did the change.

that's exactly what we are doing now

we have had 2 spindle bearings fail on hass machines in the last 3 weeks.Hass tech said it was something in the oil so we phoned oemeta and they said we got a bad batch of oil.At 10,000 $ apiece we are trying now to get the money out of their insurance.Just a warning if anyone else is using oemeta oil you might want to look into it

thanks jp got it

how do I access the plane manager in 2018 I cant seem to find it.Thanks

16 minutes ago, mkd said:

Buying a new one outright, is over double the price of exchange service through Haas. i need to have a rebuild on mine soon :-(

AFAIK, it's the original 2002 unit. Been good for 6 years of my light duty/ prototype work.

sorry I should have said exchange through hass

thanks guys I passed the cartridge  thing on to our guys and they,re getting a new one

not sure we,ve never done this before company doesn't want to spend money on hass techs so our guys are giving it a shot