Remember you heard it here first

(Scooby Doo Type HEH HEH HEH )

Our Dealer has told us "X" will be here in august 2004 +/- 1 month.

Thankin You very much.

I suspected it had to be something in

the post but just wasn't sure.

I,m programming a tombstone job on a Matsuura H-Plus 630 machine (different job on every face) and I want to use the center of rotation with only 1 work co-ordinate g54 .The problem is that mastercam is allocating sequential work offset's to the 4 face's ie. g54,g55,g56,g57

and if I try to assign the same offset no. to each face in the t/c parameter tab

mastercam mastercam tells me that the work offset is already assigned.

What am I missing, not seeing or doing wrong?

Post mod.??

button or switch enabled ??

+1 on making the backplot rotate the tombstone

Tomorrow (Friday) our Company is having it's Annual award ceremony for Employee's Who have achieved certificates Internally or externally

for any work related training or course's

they Have done in the last 12 month's

I will Receive my Mastercam Certification (and Solidworks)

and with any luck get a peck on the cheek from the Christina Aguilera lookalike Training council representative (no tongues allowed)

Do any of the rest of you guy's have any sort of recognition of your achievement's in your respective company's ??

Check . We have a copy of it from when our B-axis casting fractured . (2 year old machine)

She was using using 40 Gall of oil every 3 days

and the operators never thought that anything was wrong !!

yep thats it we got it stopped alright thou and the IT guy removed it but you should have seen him

I'd pay money to see the expression on his face

again

We just had a variant of the sobig virus get past our antivirus software .it affected .exe files all over the network about 25 computers BUT the most worrying for us is that it also got into one of our mazak horizontals with the pc based fusion control !! (permament ethernet connection)

lucky we got that one stopped as quick as possible.

Get the designers to save the part with a

co-ordinate reference point and when exporting it from solidworks tick it in the option list

Request the master Heidenhain post from your reseller "HEID-CONV" .It does what you want

Helical moves and all.

check the minimum cornering feedrate in the highfeed parameters after that I don't know.

Hi Paul did you try look at your operation parameters and check to see if plunge and retract

feed rates have a value also in the highfeed page make sure you have a value enterd for the min feedrate.

Mitsubishi carbide have a new facemill for contouring .We are using it to cut pre-hardened aircraft steel at 45 Rc (4340)

low surface speed 70m/min and 3.5 mm per tooth

2mm depth of cut with 4 teeth (that's 12mm 1/2" per rev.) I'm a big fan of Sandvik but this thing destroyed it and lasted longer as well.

I'm having a hard time convincing the powers that be to purchase. What's in it was the first question ??

anybody fill me in

Thats all I need to start a web search in the right direction thank's.

Do you request this Cd from your reseller ???

Any one know where I could go to look for a Bolt on oil-mist blast for one of our older machines

I also saved to the network

this is the only reason I still have a

job

It is backed up every night and this has saved my bacon

( although i must see if it can moniter changes every hr as suggested by bryan 314)

Autosave is not set to save without my consent

pretty suicical that.(but thank's for the suggestion anyway )

must go now as its 8:320pm here now

and i'm glad the day is over

May day

programmed part : everything fine

reopened part 2 wks later to make small revision change : everything fine

made changes and saved part : every thing fine

sat back with a cheesy grin satisfied. Just thought i'd have a look at a different angle

mastercam crashes and overwrites file

maybe it was the cheesy grin.

extremly stressed out around the time i wrote this

But i've calmed down a bit now sorry .

At last some usefull advice thanks.

I already had used Alt A 10mins previous to the crash

and had orientated the part to a new view

the snap shot of this new view was all that was left

even though I DID NOT SAVE The file when it was orientated at this point.

Mastercam crashed with me when I was working with a file.

However when i restarted it up again and went toto open the file ,there was no geometry ,and no operations all that was left was the little image you view when you are looking thru files

Good job it was backed up last night otherwise I wold hve lost over 6 weeks on/off and 12 mb

of a program file.

Anyone ever have this happen to them ??

Windows xp pro ,

MC v9.1 sp2

1Gb ram

ge force 4 ti 128 mb

P4 2ghz.

1 meter turbine blades