Check your NCI name if in V9 if in X check that they all share the same name with a right click and rename operations. Just makes sure all fo the operations are checked when you do so. HTH

I would run it as fast you have RPMS and feed it as fast as safe for your machine. HTH

.238 at 1.5" depth. Found running it at 52 sfm and .004 per rev works with about a .05 peck. Anything greater seems to give a fit. Appericate the response. I am thinking down the road that the Titex 3 flute might be the trick but since we are trying to acheive lights out might have to suffer the slower run time for more predicatable results with the Cobalts drills. I think there is someone that makes a sinter metal drill that is suppose to be tough but durable. will keep searching for that and see what I come up with.

We figured it out a couple phone calls and got it nailed down. We found the Y offset page. Then we figured out we needed to apply the y offset to tool by telling it ot go to Y0 and that solved our problem. When we touch off the tool we need to make sure we are at the correct Y shift and it will do every thing from there. We appericate the help and the adivce.

I have drilled this stuff in the past but used High Proformance Stuff. Now I am stuck drilling it with Cobalt and Think the time I am losing using it is outwieghed by getting more expensive but effective time saving tools. I was wondering what some of you guys use and like for drilling this stuff. also if you could provide me some feeds and speeds would be very cool. Right now I am running about 48sfm and .004 per rev. I think it is but xxxx slow, but the drill is holding up. Thanks in Advance for any responses.

No takers huh. Well we just shifted the Y axis in the program and that was way off. We had to adjust the offsets a big differecne to get it to work but it worked. I got a call in and nothing back yet. I will post back up what I find.

We have a Puma and well the books are not giving an idea on how to set-up the y axis shift for a gang block tool hodler to hold 4 tools in one station for out frnt and back turning work. We can put a Y shift at the tool position everytime we run that tool, but that will be a real pain. So if anyone has one of these machines and knows how to accomplish this I would appericate some feedback.

Well I can get you G9 and G8 where you want it, but it wants to put it on every line taking up space that is not needed. I think you could achieve if you were to take some time and use the sgcode as a road map to lay this out. I did this by defining a varaible sg8 and sg9 which looks like this: code: #Misc. string definitions sopen_prn "(" #String for open parenthesis "(" sclose_prn ")" #String for close parenthesis ")" sdelimiter "|" #String for delimiter sg8 "G08" #Turn on Accel sg9 "G09" #Turn off Accel Then I put it here in the post: code: prapidout #Output to NC of linear movement - rapid pcan1, pbld, n$, sgplane, `sgcode, `sg8, sgsgabsinc, pccdia, pxout, pyout, pzout, strcantext, scoolant, e$ #Modify following line to customize output for high-speed toolpath #tool inspection/change points if rpd_typ$ = 7, pbld, n$, "M00", "(TOOL INSPECTION POINT - POST CUSTOMIZATION REQUIRED)", e$ plinout #Output to NC of linear movement - feed pcan1, pbld, n$, sgplane, `sgcode, `sg9, sgabsinc, pccdia, pxout, pyout, pzout, feed, strcantext, scoolant, e$ #Modify following line to customize output for high-speed toolpath #tool inspection/change points if rpd_typ$ = 7, pbld, n$, "M00", "(TOOL INSPECTION POINT - POST CUSTOMIZATION REQUIRED)", e$ pcirout #Output to NC of circular interpolation pcan1, pbld, n$, sgplane, `sg9, sgcode, sgabsinc, pccdia, pxout, pyout, pzout, parc, feed, strcantext, scoolant, e$ Like I said gives you the codes on every feed and arc line as well as most rapid lines but will do what you want if you do not mind the extra code. I would think a post guru should be able to fix the extra code problem.

I would say by Monday is going to be a hard time getting facts and figures to make the point come across effective. Time savings can alway be a mood point to bean counters and trying to get them to understand the in and out of doing it. A crashed spindle can cost $20,000 to $70,000 in just replacement cost. Then there is the down time this can cost. Most bean counters only count lost time not time not put on a job. So if you were to lose 2 weeks of down time on a crash you really lose 4 weeks of production on that machining center. If you going shop rate is $50.00 then you have lost %33,600 in production in that 4 weeks in you run 24/7 on this machine. There is alot of if s and whats to any evualtion to a study the possiblites of a problem and what any thing will do to help it. The other asspect of looking at a verfication software is loading a part into the machine and hitting the green button without having to prove out the program and having ot be worried about set up time. A base idea of something like this could be if you are setting up machines 2000 times a year and it take 2 to 3 hours to prove out programs and get job running the you have 4000 to 6000 hours in lost productive time. Again bean counters only count what they see and forget about that time they could be putting on something else. So if you cut that by 75% then you go down to 1000 to 2000 hours and you take that advatge and really gain 6000 to 8000 hours of time back and at the above shop rate that is $300000 to $400000 of gain productive by having the verfication software. There is also the piece of mine a programmer gets in being able ot see there ideas in a real world real time idea that Vericut give you. Predator isa very good one for this, but no Vericut. If going to Vericut I recommned having them come in a set it up for you. It does cost money up front but well worth it and it give you a good starting point. If going the you figure it out on your own route then give it 3 to 6 months before it is fully active and working like it should. I have seen 4 different place have it and not use it becuase it was never set-up to begin with and then becuase it takes time ot get right the recourses were never then given to the project. As with any thing you are trying to pitch be passoinate about it. Be direct and make it be your mission to get it bought. Take a couple of your hardest jobs and use the time from that as a base to see where you are and what you feel is resonable to be reduced and lowered by having a way to check code and machine dynamics. There are other tools from Vericut like optipath, but with Mastercam advancements with highspeed toolpaths you will be good with that and I save yourself the expense of that module. I hope that gives you some ideas and some food for thought about how to apporach it. Also Vericut has time studies they can supply you with and are very helpful in these types fo meeting if you could get it moved out a few days to get everything lined up.

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I have seen people post up something about drilling cycles I think.

Then there is the WCS where you do not move the model but you move the World corrnidate system to the part. There is a great turtorial on the FTP about WCS you might want to take a look at. HTH

No Dave you need ot get back what you got into it. Just some place $250.00 look like $25,000 so those guys stuck trying to make do have to deal with it is all.

It would depend on if you have a pistol or not. or maybe a flame thrower. Me I would make some heads roll and tell that dude he is why this whole department will shut down. If the other guys give you crap tell them yeah sorry I was trying to save your job and oh yeah freaking shame on me. I seen it and lived it and 90% of the compaines that use to do this are out of business so tell them to keep it up. If you deicede to do nothing you are helping the problem. Sucks trying to change things but if you do nothing hope your resume is up to date and would not tell mY next employer this; "I could have done soemthing but chose not too becuase I was AFFRAID TO ROCK THE BOAT."