You mean this?? badrandal at cnczone [ 07-20-2003, 01:49 AM: Message edited by: Cato ]

Hey, scrap iron, maybe your reading skills are scrap also. Let me break it down for you.. James asked this: quote: Prove it! Not just with salesman's BS either. Are you using MetaCut Pro to filter your toolpath to get NURBS?James then added this: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What did ya do, bite your tongue? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nah! I wanted to ask a few more questions so rather than add another posting, I just added to that one. adding more below... quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is a pc based control running on a windows 2000 platform. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd run for my life!! We have a shop full of PC Based COntrols and OMG.... Unstable when the temperature rises, they suffer from every problem your PC at home/in the office does, let me count the ways that PC based controls suck over the long haul. Sure, right now it may be great, but what about when you've had the machine for say 5 years (Which is eons when looking at computer hardware) what happens when something fails, will you be able to go down to Fry's and get a replacement part? Will the company still be around in 5 years? True it's hard to know what is going to happen in 5 years. 5 years ago who would have thought that Okuma woudl be struggling, who would've thought the Hitachi Seiki would be bought by Mori Seiki? As for using straight line segments to represent arcs then running through a filter, I would re-evaluate my position if I were you. Let me give you a heads up on my background so you'll know I'm not just talking out of my arsehole. I was ( I left because travel was too hard on my family) an Applications Engineer for Mori Seiki for a couple of years. HSM and FMS's were my area of expertise. I spent the latter part of my career there experimenting with different scenarios (read playing with HSM's), Linear Moves vs. Arcs, Linear Moves vs. NURBS. Straight Posted code vs. code run through a filter (Meta Cut Pro). No contour control vs. Look Ahead vs. AICC vs. HPCC, vs. NURBS et al.... In my experience (and I had the data to back up my position) tightening the surface creation tolerance on your models, tightening the tolerance on your toolpath, and allowing arcs to be made where possible then filtering the software yielded the best results cycle time-wise, finish wise, accuracy-wise. ...coming up for a breath... quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't attack me like a pack of wolves. I am here seeking technical advice from my brothers in cam. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nobody as attacking you, they are just attacking your absolute statements. quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the hot topics in this forum are turning into O/T's and personal conversation. This is a technical forum, not a chat room. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes and no. For the most part it is technical, but as we wait for someone to enter with a good problem we can sink our teeth into we engage in chat. Sometimes that chat can be quite lively as can a conversation be with anynoe you're standing next to. True some may be more brash that others but you just need to look beyond that. HTH To which Kyle said this.. quote: Just cause you had the title doesn't mean you were good at it. ps That hat doesn't necessarily make you intelligent. as for Iskander... quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is fun, Mastercam is fun . Mastercam is life and life is Mastercam ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- you need to get a life Now.. I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like a DIRECT attack on a VERY SENIOR member here. Please stop posting these flames. We don't want to read your trash. K? Thanks

And don't forget you have to "change posts" to see the new changes. 'Rekd teh Rum & Coke in hand..

quote: MEYETTE be that the set-up sheets were R'EKD just like I said? That's cute, I guess. I don't think the fact that they were/are 'Rekd' is/was the issue.. duh... Cato

quote: has killed thousands of innocent people during the years he was in power That is just not true.. ..has kill millions of innocent people during the years he was in power

quote: Maybe that would be a handy option.. something like "Match NCI file name to MC9 Filename" Actually, it basically does. The default when you create a new file is that the NCI file matches the MC file. Also, when you use the right click menu in the ops manager to "change nci destination", it defaults to the MC name. JM2C

I think he's talking about 1 of 2 things here. 1 stock left on cutting surface, or 2, what side of the cutting surface, i.e. left, right, or center. Is this correct?