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pullo

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  1. This also happened to me a few years back . I cut the tool at its very base with a huge  angle grinder and was able to reach the tube and screw it out of the holder.

    It was a DMG DMU 60 with a 24 000 spindle. 

    The service  guy  that cam to see this quoted me 2 months  waiting time and removing all the spindle from the back , my cutting lasted 15 min  and he took pics  of

    huge sparks flying from a grinder as if I was crazy or smthg :) . 

    Gracjan

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  2. I once had to make a few grooves 1.6 mm wide and 20 mm deep. I created a surface in the middle of the groove and created a toolpath where the tool is going like a sewing machine some 2000 mm up and down and a increment horizontal move of 0.05 mm. I could have EDMed it , but the manual polishing after the burn 

    made me mill . the grooves were altogether 1.5 meters long in 0.5 meter chunks. The material was of course steel ,HRC 33. I think only 3 or 4 end mills were used.

    Gracjan . 

  3. Black background is the easiest on the eyes and uses the least energy as there are no pixels lit up,IMHO.  I have setup an icon to instantly change to the gradient background, but I have never used it. The gradient background is more futuristic, but I don't live in Hollywood :)

    Gracjan

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  4. One of the best graphic tests for a 2d chain is the ability to extrude a solid.  If you have several of them on the screen , you could window chain them the chains that don't give you a  proper solid are the ones that have problems. 

    Another giveaway is the curve you choose to start a chain. If the chain ends up starting off of another cure , you have found your culprit.

    Gracjan

  5. What I would do is make the post save all the comments into a separate file automatically every time you post out . I actually did something like that many many years ago but stopped using it. Now I just empty the directory of these files once a year...

    If you want I can post these few lines here from my post ...

    Gracjan

    .... so to answer your primary question : neither.

    Grracjan

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  6. 5-ax pocketing is not adequate here as your machining geometry floor is not radial. And then even if you create an imaginary floor surface

    which could be radial ( like the top of your part ) then the tool axial deflections will not help to clear out the external surface undercut.

    I would suggest a 3-ax roughing strategy and then swarfing.

    Gracjan

  7. They were made uneditable because there could have been unintentional side effects , a thing I have never myself experienced.

    I now read your answer in full and I seemed to have hit the crux  of it yesterday. 

    Mastercam has no manual that comes with it , it was last seen in X5 , so you have to hunt the info down from the Help or on Youtube.

    A full self education of Mastercam based on the written word would require reading this manual and then reading all the What's New PDFs X6-2022.

    Gracjan

     

  8. so much to take in... For now I'll just address your statement that you cannot modify the existing planes . All planes created by the user can be 

    modified through the edit function in the RMB. If you are referring to the fact that the default 9 planes cannot be edited (Top , Front ....Trimetric) , that is true. I think it was around X5 a decision was made to chisel them into stone :) .

    Gracjan

  9. it's a bit late now, but I would have made a test run before the final cut,  with 0.005" stock to leave , measured that it's leaving the 0.005"

    and then cut based on the  outcome of the measurement. This comes up very often when I have to make holes for calendar inserts in molds.

    for a hole of D6-8 mm and depth f 12 mm if I leave .01 mm even if I hammer the insert in it wont go down all the way. Overcut it by 0.005 mm

    and it falls out. So i make a test cut with a step of 0.005 mm  and measure it as the hole grows. I usually get it down to 3-4 cuts altogether.

    Gracjan

    PS . I suspect your tool was not in the center , or you had a chip between  the tool and the spindle. I just had a case like that a few months ago.

    No simulation will help here.

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  10. I ran the benchmark  3.0 on my home machine , a 4,00 GHz i7 on all the mcams I have installed:

    2019  4:54

    2020  4:18

    2021  4:06

    2022  4:21 

     the 2022 was a bumpy ride .

    Gracjan

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