I can't speak about Okuma or Mori but we had 11 Mazaks including 2 MTM machines at my last job. I hate dealing with Mazak service. I or one of the other engineers had done all the service on these machines for the last five years since a very bad experience with service after a fairly bad crash in one of the MT machines. After an operator realigned the turret with the spinning chuck, We called for a tech and by the time they got us one we had been down for over a week. He didn't have the parts we needed (even though we had given him advanced details of our problem) and we had them overnighted from Kentucky. The next day when the parts show up we find out that he was on another job and that he wouldn’t get back to us until the next day. After all was said and done that machine was down for over10 days. That said, on the lathes at least, I really like Mazatrol but I find it maddening that ability to run standard G-code is an option. When we bought an SQT250MSY used, Mazak wanted over $3K to send a tech out to turn on the parameter that would allow EIA (Fusion 640 control). I don’t know if this is still the way with their new machines but all this adds up to a very bad taste in my mouth for Mazak.

Hi all, I just started working part time at a company that has mastercam (x5) and have been trying to get up to speed since I haven't used MC since I was working for a shop that used v9 nearly 10 years ago. My first question is really an IT question. The video card on the PC that MC was on went and I was handed the MC disks and a "newer" pc to install it on. There seem to be tons of .pst files, .lmd files and control-5(?) files all over the old system. We only have one mill and one lathe so I want to make sure I copy the files we actually use. The boss says there was a lot of custom tweeking done to our posts so I want to make sure only the ones that are active are copied over. Is there an easy way to do that in MC? Thanks Pete