I would never have the balls to tap 1/2 in our Minimill, I do not even drill anything in steel over 1/2.

I found it in my 18i manual. I talked to the local reseller in regards to having an option to write a message to the operator without having it going into a alarm, and he told me that it wasent possible, but I will try this #3006 out. Thank you all. Lars

As always I have a dificult time breaking into a machines to test things out, so I was hoping that some one here could explain to me in plain english, what the differents between these to commands are on a Fanuc control, the manual does as it usial do confuse me the heck out of me. Thanks Lars

I know if you are pushing the limit, they recommend that you slow down before break through, I have some Mits drills I am testing in the moment, right now I am running 1/8 coolant through, 10 X D with no peck at 15000 rpm at 60 ipm, no peck (material Aluminium) They told me (Mits) that I might can run it at 150ipm, but then I have to slow down before break through. I was thinking just writting it as pure code, and then copy/paste the Z moves. X0. Y0. Z-1.15 F150. N1 Z-1.25 F30.

Visit www.cncci.com and look for ME Consultant, I think that program is made for you. HTH Lars

If you are just moving the Mill, why do you not pump the coolant in a 55 gal. drum, and bring it to the new location, and put it back in?

Thanks John, I think I will look into that.

George, I never use the Z heights in Mcam, because of this confusion. I have found it much better to do these edits after I have posted out. Also I have made a post modification that always will post out Z3=SCALE, Z4=SCALE that way the machine will go into a alarm if you have not edited these two critical numbers or deleted them (has to be there if angular startup) if Z3 and Z4 are set at lets say zero, it will set you machines level to zero and screw up your taper. Glad you figured it out, just sad it cost $1000 Lars

Also you can try to call your local Mitsubishi or Charmilles reseller, they should be able to hock you up with someone local. HTH Lars

George, The 1st. I would check up on would be your Z1, Z2,Z3 and Z4 levels in your program, after that I would confirm that my Z-taper on the machine is calibrated to the right amount. Good Luck brother, and let me know when there is a mail on the way.

Also if you could give the code, and what machine you are using. Lars

I have the same problem, but that is not mastercams fault, that is my supervisior

This is for GM I believe, some kind of fuel cell.

Thank you so much for your advice, I verly apreciate it, can not wait to get this one under my belt. Lars

Hi guy's Knowing that there are a coupel of you guy's who has experience milling this stuff, I am hoping that you would give me some advice. This stuff is to my knowledge 30% glass . It is a block 18" X 8" X 2" that have some different holes and pockets, no shapes that I am particually nervers to program and mill except this is a unknown material to me. I am thinking that my cutter range will be from 1/2" to 1/32 in endmill size's, and I can not use any cutting fluids (demand from customer). I know that I will be putting a good portion of stress into this material, so I am wondering how Ultem 2300 are handling that. Any advice in cutter selction, amount of flutes, coatings and feeds and speeds would be awesome. I was wondering if I should get a air chiller for this job?. Thanks a lot guy's Lars

mhzones, Sorry I never got back to you on that post problem, just been way to busy.

What about going with a smaller cutter than the radius, so you can actually contuor the radius, insted of you cutter have to take all that stock out at once.??????

-------------------------- Can't you get Chris to cut you a deal on X?? -------------------------- What do you mean about a deal, I have not even been able to get a free T-shirt out of that company, and I have know Chris for almost 7 years Jimmy, you are hitting it right on the nail, the reason that I have not been pushing my boss for X is that I am still not sure that I can justify the cost for version X Lars

GTEVER, Prices is different from place to place, like living standard, taxes and income is. In Denmark you are paying over $6 for a Gallon of gas, in my area of United States I pay $2.77 a gallon, but I also make less an hour here. Point that I am trying to make, is that you are not going to pay the same in Denmark for Mastercam as you are in India, so unless you are alittle more specific it will be pretty hard to give you a price. AND then offcourse there is rule #12 from the forum about this subject. Lars

John, I did read something about naming your macro in a book I got, one of those things that came under the categori "COOL, I got to look into that later". James, I can not get to a control this morning to test the "Dprint test" program. What is that ending up doing, sending the varibelse to the flash card? sorry for my non-experience Charlie, I have thought about using the minutes option in tool life management, I just feel that for our aplication (and maybe just my brain strugling)counting the amount of holes just seems better. Also the whole setup with T1001. I think that I am too green to start getting involved with using height offset involving in storing varibelse, maybe on a later day. Thanks for all the help guy's Lars

Thanks guy's I was just hoping that there was some cool way of getting the info down insted of using the old fashion way of pen and paper. Lars

John, My problem is that I am playing with some different thoughts in my head in regards to using the varibelse. On our production machines each machine can run a number of different parts, so pallet 1 is running part 123 and pallet 2 is running part 321, so I was thinking about planting a line in each program (there are running like sub) #123 =[#123+8](8 parts per pallet) so I can keep track between how many parts of each kind that have been through the machine. Offcourse I do not want to loose this number in case machine is shut down. Other thought is: Tool Life management on Fanuc counts how many times the tool has been called up as a toolchange, but I got parts were T2 is runing 16 times on a cycle and others were it is only running 8, so tool life management do not give me a accurete count, here I could also use varibels, so the the specefic program will sign the use of T2 to a varibel, and there have a macro keeping track. I am just affraid that I am going to turn my varibelse list into a chaos. PS. Changing your screen name John, is that because you have become a beta tester? in that case congratulations. Thanks Lars

I am not sure if this is a stupid question ;-) But playing around with macro's and I am assigning different varibelse to different functions, is there some trick to know what varibelse are assign to different macro's, so you do not get mixed up between your owen macro varibelse and the manufacteres for probes, toolchanges etc. Lars

Corby, Not that I think that I can be to much help, but does it do this if you re-post out a program that worked correctly before you did your modifications? Lars