Harryman, Naaa......he is a good boss, he takes care of everybody before he thinks of him self, funny that I had to travel 5000 miles to find somebody like him to work for, guees that companyes in europe are so frustratet with all the laws that they can not think that way. Be nice to your workers, and they will give it back to you Lars

I know what you are talking about Dan, I made a deal with my boss that everything over 45 hours goes on a timecard that I have in my clovebox, I probely work about 55 hours a week but got to wait to get paid the last 10 til times are better. Have to try to get some work out of the door and get that econemy going. Saturday morning......ah..... I was out walking 10 kilometers with my step-daugther, something for chancer. I am working nights right now, and I dont know what I was thinking when I signed up for this walk, I totally asumed that the 3 schools there was involed would know that I was working nights, it was not before friday night that I found a note from my wife when I came home that sayed......haha.....you have to get up in 2 hours .........never crossed my mind that the walk could be in the morning. But then I went in today (sunday). Lars

Hi Arty, I agree with Mill man about the upgrade, see if you cant get a upgrade, mastercam changest alot from version 7 to version 8, made it easyer to change toolpath without have to rechain stuff. What kind off WEDM is it you are running? I have had more luck talking to the actelly manufactere than dealers when it comes to training. Good luck Lars

Hi Dave, I do not know what I am doing wrong, I could not get it to work. I hate to give up with things like that, maybe I should try with another post. Lars

Hi guy's yep here is the topic again, sorry. I downloaded the inhousesolution setupsheet, and everyhting works great, execpt the stockinfo is not on the sheet, I have tryed: 1501. Insert parameter information in ascii NCI? n 1502. Write operation information to binary file(.ops)? y And I tryed to switch the answers around because the html.set said it the other way around compared to the readme file. I am trying this in Mcam 8.1, so I figure that possible could be the reason. Thanks Lars

Thanks Karl, that worked great 10 min. and I was up runing. Millman, And it support danish menu's, that made just made my life easyer. It almost made me home sick.............man I could drink a cold danish beer right now. Thanks guys

Hi guy's, I just realized tonight, that I actelly have more than one program editor with mastercam. I have been running PFE32, but came about Cimco edit, wow that looks alitlle different, and something I would like to check out, but I have a hard time getting it to my Haas Minimill (using disk). In PFE32 I just saved it as program 1000 and file type *.*, then it greated a 1000 file, and the machine are taking that one, but can not find a file type in Cimco that the machine want to accept. Any ideas? Also you you guy's would give me some feedback on the two editor's, wich one is best. Thanks Lars

Thank you Mark, I was looking all over for that. You are my hero off the day Thanks Lars

Hi guy's, Am I loosing my mind!! A little while ago I was crusing around on Mcam website, I found a setup sheet that was a free download for ver 8.1 now I can not find it......aaarrhhhh.......I finally got a disk, and now they took it off? Thanks Lars

Thanks guy's, I verly apriciate all the help you guys are giving me. I have requestet a Harvey catalog, and with your help I now know were to start. Thanks Lars

Hi VC, I forgot to check today if you can changes work offsets in wire. But when I am runing multi parts in my wire then I am useing subs, many times I have different costumers in the machine at the same time. I have made a main program that looks something like this: G00 G54 x0. y0. z0. G22 L1000 (calling sub-program) G00 G55 x0. y0. z0. G22 L1100 G00 G56 x0. y0. z0. and so on. This is just saved under a folder were I always can get it. That way I am still writting my programs as normal, so if I get one job repeat, then I just run that program(forexamble program 1100). Lars sorry about the spelling

Hi guy's I need some help again I have 4 pocketts I have to mill they are 1/2 deep and there is a call out 0.03125 corner rads. so 1/16 cutter. I was thinking, if I should take a standard 1/16 and step down going the finished with and length 3/16 deep and then go to a xtra long 1/16 and finishing the with and length(thinking that would make less vibration becase the cutter would be in a slot) and the after that take a bigger cutter to get rite of the middel stock? any idea would be great. material is A2. Should I use coated carbide? 4 flute ? 0.0005 chip load? 200 sfm? Thanks Lars

Hi guy's sorry it took this long for me to reply. Thanks for the good advice. I have a call in at RIT, to see if they can help me, also I had some long convasations with a couple off tooling companys, and last I have hooked up with a milling "expert", that I have help with some edm work with in the past, and allready feel like I have got A lot off helpfull knowlegde. I moved to the Rochester NY area, about 4 years ago from Denmark, when I meet my now wife in a Canadien Icehockey chatroom. Thanks again Lars

Hi D, Do you have another type off Edm going as you are trying to send your program? I also have a FA20 and have never had a problem, but when we got our FA10 installed, and the RS232 cable was installed in the celling running over the FA20, I can't send a program to the FA10 with the FA20 running. It dosent verly matter to me, you have to anyways make the machine ready for the program, so unless your program is very long, I just put the disk in my backpoucket is I am going out to the machine. Lars

Thanks for all the replys. I allmost got the job finished up last night, with your guys help!!!! F.Javier, step should have been "doc", just couldent come up with the word. Hardmill, it is a 1/2 Garr cutter, think it has a 255m number on it, do not have a link. Long story: I have been a pure EDM guy the last 8 years, the last time I had a Endmill in my hand, was back in Denmark when I took my aprentienceship as a moldmaker, and then it was on a bridgeport using HSS endmills, where we looked at the endmill spinding, and then desided that that looked pretty good for speed. Now I am trying to run this MiniMill next to my wire. Now I realize that I got to do some homework, I am getting a handel on programming in Mcam Mill, and I think I know how I want to run my jobs, BUT tooling, well here I have all the questions, why that cutter? speed/feeds? doc? chip load? other options?. I think that I have to hook up with different tolling companys TECH. deparments, and see if they can explain to me what I need, and why. Any of you guys have a good advise, how I can move from the EDM world (power settings, spark gab) into the sience off "real" tooling?. Thinking of websites and book, or what else is there is. Basiclly getting 10 years experince as fast as possible. The shop I work at have mill guy's, but dont seems like that they verly know how and why. They use what ever endmill that get ordred, and use the cutting data from the manufactor. I know that it will bring you close, but my nature is that I need to understand why and how. Thanks guys, you have alredy been to so much help, if any is stopping by Rochester NY, send me a mail, and there will be a cool one, with your name on it in the fritz. Lars

Ok ,just came home from the shop. Tryed to mill a slot (4" long, 1.74" wide, and 0.5" deep) with a Garr 5 flute coated endmill. in D-2, I started out with 3455 RPM and 103. Feed/min. 0.01 step, and without coolant, took about 10 min before there was sparks flying and the steel turned into, Hmm ocean blue water coulor, So I changest cutter, and dropped the feed down to 84. p/min, but still the cutter and steel turned worm, so I threw some coolant on there, just so I could finish up this first part. Now my biggest problem is that I still have 15 of these slots to do, and Im runing low on cutters. And since my good friend is in "rank" higher than me, I know that I will hear bull****, if I want to ordre more coated cutters.........please help..............would like to have written this with Caps on, because I verly feel like screaming.but is trying to stay come, with the hope that one of you guy's will help me. Thanks Lars

Thanks guys, just the answer I was looking for I will keep on runing my coated endmills, and when the guy is looking over at me I will give him one off these . His reason was basiclly that"coated endmills onely is a penefit in hardend steel". I am runing a Haas Minimill with onely 6000 rpm, as max. My way to tackel jobs have been to rough pockets and other applications with (forexamble-a 1/2 Tialn Garr cutters) 200% feed and 150% speed, and then onely taken 0.015 steps, with the theory that I am protecting the machine for accuracy(man, had to look that word up in my danish dictionary(had to look up "dictionary" too )with onely having 6-10% spindel load. I have to try to run without coolant tommorow. If you guys would comment on that tecnic too, then I do not know how to thanks you enough. Thanks again Lars

As you know, I am new to this milling, so there for please bear with me. I got into a lillte discusion with a guy today about coated tooling(endmills). He told me that coated carbide cutters would not exnend tool life in soft steels like D-2, A-2, 4140, verses standard carbide. Now with my limmited experince, it seems to me that it does. But if its worth the cost, I am not sure. I would love to get some feedback from you guys on that. Thanks Lars

midnite, Came to the same result as you, can onely turn it on or off, but hey it is a japanese machine it have its limits. Can still not figure out how 4 foot japanese guy is going to feed the wire manully by ising the white ceramic handle, I am almost 6 foot and I have my problems when the head is in the back of the tank. Maybe the machine comes with a latter in Japan Lars

I have never been to happy with the nocore option in Mastercam, have tried a couple off times were it actelly left stock, that leter enden up in the lower flushcup, I am running Mcam 8.1.1, so maybe this is a solved issue in 9. midnite, Im also running FA20, and I have never had the buzzer on, hate those things, but were you shut it off............Hmm............will try to find out tommorow. Lars

Millman, Danish is spoken in a small country called Denmark, it is a part of Scandinavien, right above germany and surounded Dutch is Nederland, you know, Amsterdam, hookers in the windows and hashbars. If any from Amsterdam is reading this, I have been in your city a couble of times, and it is a very butifull Lars

Hi Millman, I do not believe they support danish, onely about 5 million speaking it. but thanks anyways

Hi Arif, You should be abel to go to File-Convert-Acad. Then choose the .dwg file and it will apear on the screen, and then take it from there. BUT, be aware you might loose some doing the translation, like lines circels. I have one costumer were the company logo always ends up 10 times bigger and is always right on top on the drawing. A good idea is to also request a print made directly from Autocad, so you can double check the Cad file. And offcourse welcome to the forum, I have onely been on the forum a month, and these guys are the best. Thanks guys. Lars Sorry about the spelling, was thinking of writting it in danish and send it to a transleter, but they want $50.

Plasttav, It is a great idea, I do the same for wire, I have libary fir different wire thickness, then material, then steel thickness and at last amount off passes, I just set it up as I goes, my libaryes gets bigger and bigger, and soon you have all the proofed settings you need. It takes some diseplin but it save alot of time in the long run. Lars

Hi Pip, Thats a good point, a flycutter can make a pretty big mess very quickly, if startet on the wrong pallet. Thanks Lars