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Bill Henderson

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  1. Bill Henderson
    I really can't spend the time reading all of the posts on this subject, but to paraphrase the complaints where do most of the "bugs lie"? Is it something seen more in Lathe, Mill, 5 Axis, or design side? Are they critical as in system crash or worse tool crash or are they more on the interface side with functionality? I believe the priority list is sort of set that way.
  2. Bill Henderson
    Was there possibly a patch released since the initial release?
  3. Bill Henderson
    I used to get that regularly with X2 but have yet to come across it with X5. Although we have just recently purchased X5 (December last year).
  4. Bill Henderson
    A trick I used to use... instead of a rectangle I would create a note with a reference name
  5. Bill Henderson
    Thanks Keith.
  6. Bill Henderson
    Multiple operations but my tap cycle (all 4 holes at the same start depth and finish depth) i get an error. It posted but I am leery. OP ID#11:8 - TAP [WCS TOP]-[TPLANE TOP] save_db():multiple start of section nci moves! any ideas? Thanks check back tomorrow.
  7. Bill Henderson
    Searched to find this. thanks
  8. Bill Henderson
    That is what I am seeing. Jumping back to the group I had just been in. Regardless of the arrow.
  9. Bill Henderson
    That is probably it. Thanks John.
  10. Bill Henderson
    I typically will have 6 different WCS saved for various setups. I started using a new machine group for each change. Since doing this I seem to have my WCS start flipping for no apparent reason to one or the other saved views. I thought maybe it was because I picked a toolpath to backplot while I was in a different view from where it was generated, but it doesn't seem to repeat. My reason for multiple machine groups is to keep my tool library somewhat cleaned up. We do not use a standard library. Anyone else run into this?
  11. Bill Henderson
    Or you could use Simplify under Edit to convert splines to arcs.
  12. Bill Henderson
    I guess I have only seen a few weird arc profiles when using it, but I only use it for boundaries so I have never analyzed it intensely.. I wish you could rely on that. Would be nice.
  13. Bill Henderson
    Or use the silhouette boundary.
  14. Bill Henderson
    Thank you. I figured that and tried it that way. It worked. We cut metals and plastics here so Teflon parts taped down fly off pretty quickly with an M8 and aluminum looks nasty without it. Nice to have two separate op defaults.
  15. Bill Henderson
    I used to be able in X2 to open (I thought)the control def and set common parameters for operations and save them for electrodes...aluminum... steel etc. I am trying this in X5 and can not get the settings to stay. What I would really like is to have the Coolant ON for every operation and save the operations for Aluminum. Have another that is for plastic and coolant off. I have a tool library with tools that have coolant on, but I seem to have to turn it on at every operation. Any help or ideas? Thanks.
  16. Bill Henderson
    Is the geometry a line? May sound silly but can't very well be tangent to a line without an arc.
  17. Bill Henderson
    Here is the only thing I found for precious metals and its not very helpful. Sorry. My link
  18. Bill Henderson
    Are you contouring inside or outside? I haven't had an issue with either one but I have no idea of what your geometry is nor your cutter size, arc size, and lead in.
  19. Bill Henderson
    Out of curiosity's sake... what version of windows are you running?
  20. Bill Henderson
    Thanks Oscar. That's what I did.
  21. Bill Henderson
    I assume you do have rights for the file correct? Full control...access. If you do then I have no idea why it won't stick. Sorry.
  22. Bill Henderson
    If you go to the explorer and right click on the file to properties... change it there. It should stick and change the icon for that file type.
  23. Bill Henderson
    Found it. Motion>gap will force a retract and G0 on linear moves. It seems I am talking to myself but in case anyone else wonders... here ya go.
  24. Bill Henderson
    It seems like the high speed machining dictates the maximum feedrate gets posted. I have full vertical retract and no other changes as far as gap ratio. This may be what calls out the X travel at F300. I will try messing with the gaps to force a retract and G0 X move.
  25. Bill Henderson
    Only been using X5 for a week, and I can't seem to find out why I get feedrates F300. being posted. Using the Generic HAAS 4 post. I disabled the output feed move on the linking parameter page. (with it on... it was posting out F500.). We have some old HAAS machines and they fault out. Is there a setting to get a G0 instead of G1? Is it something in my machine definition? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh.. and its nice to finally be back on the forum. So helpful too. Thanks

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