Bill and others, the Ram head is on the FTP as RamHead.mc9 under the MC9 folder

Bill, how about the Ram Head? I've got one that a customer gave me.

I think the 20 has to have exactly 8 characters in the name. That can be spaces, so it can look like: (NAME ) That being 4 spaces before the close ).

L-M, what post are you using? This is a post setting.

That Cobra is the golf equipment logo.

What type of control is it? Most use the default 17 and 19. The thing I'm saying is to make sure the 'Wait for XON' is clicked on in the 'Transmit' parameters.

I'll say I had a similar problem with one of my customer, that was fixed by downloading and installing the latest video drivers.

The topic is on the reseller forum, and as so as we have some feedback, someone will get it back over here.

My order of preferance is: InHouse Tutorials, then the Mastercam Handbooks, then the Scholars International books, then everybody else (probably another 1/2 dozen or so book publishers).

I've got them at www.s4a.us under 'Learning Tools' - 'Training Books'. You can buy right on line.

John, I'm assuming you are using the 'Machine 1' setup in DNCMax. Right click the machine and select 'Configure port'. Make sure you have all the parameters set the same as the machine. Then go to the 'Transmit' branch. Turn on the switches for 'Wait for XON' for Remote and Manual sends. That should then wait for you to press 'Cycle Start' at the control.

Dave, i just downloaded the latest and it seems to be pretty slow. I ran the chook on a simple 2 1/2 axis mill job. Three tools, drill, contour and pocket. About 2 minutes of machine cycle time. It takes 2 1/2 minutes to get the setup sheet. Is that normal or do I have something screwed.

should be pretty easy to do. I mentioned in another thread about setting 'getnextop : 1' in post. You can then check in psof/ptlchg the value of 'nextdc'. Zero or greater means the next op is drilling. Something like this. code: psof ... if nextdc < 0, #milling cycle [ pbld, n, "G8", e g8g9_flag = 1 ] else, [ if g8g9_flag = 1, [ pbld, n, "G9", e ] g8g9_flag = 0 ] ... Put something like this in the psof/ptlchg/ptlchg0 sections. I'd also use the flag to know to put out the 'G9' in the pretract section just before a toolchange.

Version 9 lets you set Rotary4Ax to a 'Rotary cut' or 'Axial cut'. You might be able to use 'Msurf5ax' and set it to 4 axis around X.

looks cool, but now you need to do it in Flash and put it on your web site.

Call your dealer, they can get you the V9.1MR0304 Post CD.

look at oppizsurf-sfa.mc9 on the FTP. That took about 2 minutes to do with Mill 3. Not done yet, you would need a smaller tool to finish corner radius, but a quick example of the Mill 3 power.

First thing, get the upgrade to Mill 3. This part is do-able in Mill 2, but it will be very time consuming. You can only mill 1 surf at a time, so you need to have containment boundries so that the path doesn't hit other surfs. If you need to rough the cavity out also, you have a lot of work. You can Create-Curves-Slice and slice the model so it looks like a topigraphically map. Once you have those boundries at different Z depthes, you can do a normal pocket at each depth. Again, get the upgrade, it will save you a bunch of work and headaches.

platinum, can you put a example up on the ftp that we can look at?

wow !! Christian, is that in the new post pdf's? I'll have to take a look at the new stuff.

what sort of geometry are you cutting? Is this a contour or surface machining? If you had a wireframe contour with arcs, the above settings would generate arc code. 'do_full_arc' would allow post to generate a single arc command for a full 360 arc. arccheck = 1 has the post check arc length and use ltol. arccheck = 2 has the post check the angle sweep of the arc using atol, = 3 makes it use both.

Neil, CIMCO makes an NFS software for communications. It 'shares' a PC folder thru NFS to the Control. So you can post to a regular folder on your PC network and access that folder from the control.

Gary, what other types of machines do you have? Would the iTNC 530 be an oddity in the shop. Being different then the rest can ruin a great machine.

If you set the 'getnextop' variable to 1 you can then use the 'nextdc' variable. Nextdc is next drill cycle. If this is 0 or greater, the next op is a drill op. You can use this in the psof/ptlchng to see what the next cycle is and output your 'M19' where you need it.

John, a little more rpm would be better. But you can't beat a Mori and that's a nice friendly control.