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Laebs

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  1. Laebs
    You guys are both pretty awesome. All our fixture designs our handled by our Product Design engineering department,aka "PD's" . From there the prints are sent to our tool room where the fixtures are built. We the programmers write the program to machine the part. This all culminates on the floor where the part is machined. I brought your observations to the toolmakers on Saturday. I did give credit where due. I said "two guys from emastercam.com have been helping me with this have said it will not work", I got a weird looking eyebrow raise..hehehe, man I could not help but laugh which just made them look at me more weirdly. Anyways, without telling them the reason you said it would not work they looked at it and said exactly the same. It was much more colorful as you may imagine. lol. I hope I did not create a situation they already have great dislike for what they call the "college kids" in product design. I will work on it more and report back. Thank you
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    I am so thankful to you for your response. Even that information you shared has cleared up questions I have had. If others are so helpful I think I will feel very good about my chances. Hmm, I downloaded it from the site and it opened on my end. I wonder what it could be. Maybe I should send it in MC2020 as well. Here you go can you open it now? Complete assembled table and 5 axis jaws with part.zip
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    This is a disaster or this is a great opportunity. I hope it's the latter. I have the solid of the table, trunnion, vise and fixture as well as the solid model of the part to program and the prepped stock that will be used and assembled. I have heard you must find the table to trunnion center line first which I did (7.0866) Next I find the stack up which is your vise+fixture+part but that is built/generated in the post, correct? Now the questions I have and and the answers I am looking for. I have 2021 but an older version with example is fine. How do I proceed in Mastercam? Where do I set my work coordinate? What paths should I use? I have been reading up on 3D solids selection and toolpathing but i'm still having issues. I know I am on repeat here but if I someone could get me started and return their examples. I believe I can plow through. I don't want to go off site and have to pay a design house to do it for me. For that matter I don't have the money to do it if I wanted to. Thanks fellas I am going to repost this here so if you can't help me someone else may be able to. Complete_assembled_table_and_5_axis_jaws_with_part.mcam
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    Thank you Fellas for the replies. I have not had a chance to sit down and even start working on this project. I work in medical manufacturing and the amount of paperwork is nothing close to what I have seen. This weekend will be dedicated to doing that. If anyone would be so kind to send some email me some examples that mirror the part I have sent I will sign songs about you. heck I'll even post a video of me signing songs about you!
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    Okay thank you. I will do my best to get something to you in a couple of days. Can you tell me where I may be able to find some files for something with this type of shape like a football or something? If I can find a example like that I think it would help as far as what tool paths to use. Thank you sir.
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    Thank you so very much for you offer. I have attached the files from solid works I have not yet grabbed them with Mastercam 2021 This is part will be run in our 5-axis Mazak M430. Until now I have just been programming for 2D in our 3-axis machining centers. One of our programmers in the 5-axis department has left to take a position elsewhere. This is my chance I don't want to mess it up. That said I realize I need to learn so much more about 5-axis and even dynamic milling. The fact is a guy is so busy doing his current job where do you get the time to practice(learn). If I only had something to follow along with some guidance I am dedicated to putting any time that is needed. They are securing this part to a block with a socket head cap screw. Thank you and please if you can email me any examples I will sign your praises non stop 81107947.SLDPRT 81107947_TURNED.SLDPRT P81107947.SLDASM P81107947-1.SLDPRT P81107947-2.SLDASM
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    I will try to send something this afternoon. Thank you very much for your response and help.
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    The material, SFPM, IPM and tools are irrelevant. My issue is chaining a solid model using avoidance, air, and machining regions. I cannot get it to pick correctly.
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    I am having a terrible time using the Dynamic Milling tool path. I have tried to watch several tutorial but I do not have the solid model they are using. Can someone please let me know where I can find a good tutorial I can follow along with or have any guidance they could offer? Thanks Efriends
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    Thanks much CGI. I believe you have given me a clear path now I just have to be able to complete it. Before your answer I was going to try 3 different things which may have turned into a huge waste of time. To be clear, your saying adjust my cut off as needed depending where I want my remnant to end. I do have a parts ejector on the sub but it may not matter if I can eject the remnant on the main. To do that I would have to be able to activate the bar feeder at that point and have it load the new bar with the idea that they may not work together so why waste the time trying. Okay, here I go. If you have anymore suggestions please send them and thanks again.
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    I have a similar question. We have a Mazak SQT 250MSY Smooth Control and we want to use an ATS ML-680 bar feeder. Previously, I had one 4' bar placed in the spindle. After the main spindle work was completed I preformed a POCO, pulling the bar out with the subspindle, syncing the spindles, Parting off the piece. Then the second half is machine to completion on the sub side. Doing it this way I have a problem with leaving a remnant in the main or an extra long piece in the sub. At this time I don't know how to interface the feeder and the machine. I have several emails out to Mazak and ATS. Until then I worry that as it is now programmed will I have a problem getting the subspindle and the bar feeder working together. I wonder if I need to abandon this idea? I will report back if I get some assistance from Mazak. Thanks
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    Hello Sir, I too want to create a mastercam Library from an excel spread sheet. Based off your convo way back in 2008 it is possible. Though it looks like that was X2 we have 2019 and I hoping you can talk(text) me through that. Thanks
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    Thank you for the help. I will test it out first thing Monday and let you know if I succeed or totally mess it up. Have a great weekend.
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    We have a complete data base of all our tooling in the form of an excel workbook. Is there any way I can pull this information into Master cam 2019 to create a tool library? Thank you
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    I needed some help with setup doc and I just saw your post this morning. I downloaded it a half a minute ago and can't wait to check it out. Thanks so much for putting this out here. People here, People like you, I really appreciate. Many times my inexperience would have spelled curtains for me if not for you and the like.
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    My transfer from main to sub is complete but I still cannot get the turning tools for the sub set. I have attached the program. The lines of read text which are used on the sub do not seem to be doing anything. The text in blue, the main spindle works along with the transfer. Is it possible the operator set the tools used on the sub incorrectly? Could I need to change a parameter bit or something? I have reached out to Mazak but have not received any word yet. Please let me know what you guys think. Thank you 1903.EIA.rtf
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    Thanks for your help fellas and trying your best but, I think its over. There only giving me until noon. Then they said there pulling it. Real frustrating
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    Good morning fellas, I got here this morning around 330 am so I tried the changes you suggested. Thank you for you time and help. Unfortunately, the 575 macro shift does not work. I saw no change no matter what numbers I put in. The M303 code must be the spindle rotation. When I changed it to M302 the spindle would not turn on. Wow! I don't know what to do. I wonder if I should ask the principle engineer here to see if he can get a Mazak applications guy in here? I'd hate to do that cause I'd here it then but what else is there to do? Did the operator set the tools incorrectly, I don't think so I touched off a few tools again and got the same numbers. The A,B,C,D mazatrol tool ID's look right. I don't know if I need to call them up for sure in the g code program but I tried with or without. In any case thanks and heres to safe and happy week for you. ...lol, mine sure is suckin and gonna suck much worse very soon
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    Okay thanks, that sounds interesting. So do you think that M303 is not the correct sub spindle reference? I'm so dog tired right now I gotta go home and get some sleep. I plan to get here at 5am and I will try it right away and let you guys know what happens...
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    Yes sir I'll add that to my list... I'm running out there right now...
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    The program is G code and I am not using any workshifts but for the machine zero(g53.5) I thought that I could set the tools on the Mazak side and run it with the G code program but the sub spindle tools just are not going to position. I'm gonna run out to the floor and try a few things you guys told me about.
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    Does anyone know is the R2 a gear or spindle reference? Maybe I am putting the T0240.## extentions in wrong. The mazak tooling page says the sub spindle should be defined B and D I wonder if I should just insert a g54 workshift and see if that does anything. M01 (PICKOFF SPINDLE - RETRACT) G28 B0. (SUB RETURN HOME) G28 W0. M01 (TOOL - 30 OFFSET - 30) (C4-PCLNR-27050-12HP RWM SUB INSERT - NONE) (FACE BACKSIDE OF PART IN SUB SPINDLE) G53.5 G50 Z[#575] N30 T0240.01 G18 G99 M902 G97 S1022 M303 R2 G0 Z.0003 M8 X1.0469 G50 S3600 R2 G96 S280 R2 G1 X.3575 F.008 G0 Z-.0997 G96 S200 R2 G53.5 X.8693 Y0. Z24.3453 Z24.37 G1 Z24.47 F.01 X.8206 X.71 X.8514 Z24.3993 M9 G28 U0. V0. G28 W0. M01 (TOOL - 4 OFFSET - 12) (.007 FOR SUB INSERT - NONE) (ROUGH .700 Ø) G53.5 N4 T0445.01 G18 G99 M902 G97 S896 M303 R2 G0 Z24.375 M8 X.8527 G50 S3600 R2 G96 S200 R2 G1 Z24.425 F.01 Z24.4929 X.8927 Z24.5129 X.9634 Z24.4775 G0 Z24.3959 X.8127 G1 Z24.4459
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    Yes you are correct it is 575 that should set the face and I did play with the numbers as you said but I didn't get a different move at least I didn't notice anything. I'll go out there again and try it again maybe I missed something, Thank you Orvie
  25. Laebs
    Hello Sir, Yeah I put the numbers in the macros and the POCO works fine but the tool used to machine the sub are about 15 to 20 inches off. I don't understand what the heck I am doing wrong. I was here wednesday at 3am and thursday at 3am and still couldn't get this finished.

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