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machinemaster, things going well, it's not as tough to train in a skirt as i thought
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how about some mastercam lingerie for all the closet cross dressing machinists out there
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using the area chain command will use the point as a start point automatically without having to chain it separately. this is a nice feature as the point can be used to pre-drill the entry point for the endmill and then the pocket routine will pick this same point to start the tool pocket routine.
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by the way the Martians did land. i know because i am Elvis's space baby by an illicit tryst with one of those Martians
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i like nick's idea of placing an island at the center of ther pocket. that should force the tool cut between the two contours...
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slot milling allows the tool to ramp down the slot as it cuts. think of it as a pseudo-helix motion while cutting the slot instead of "Z" level steps that pocketing give you with depth cuts active.
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here's one for ya. the post is for a xxxxor 8025/30 ts/tg/t controller. the wrinkle is the customer wants to use special canned cycles to run rough/finish cycles. the following is a sample of the code. G81 ( activates the canned rough/finish cycle) P00 = K22.100 (X dim start) P01 = 0.000 (Z dim start) P02 = K22.000 (X dim end of cut) P03 = K-1.625 ( Z dim end of cut ) etc, etc. etc. i have little hope that apost like this exists but it never hurts to ask. i'll probably wind up having to create a post myself but do not want to reinvent the wheel as it where...
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i use color schemes that are easy on the eyes. if you are going to look at a computer screen all day easter egg colors will drive you blind. i stay with pastel colors that don't glare and i also like the black graphics area ( drawing area) as i reduces eye glare.
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connecting to Bridgeport VMC800 milling center
Camdude® replied to dleade1's topic in Industrial Forum
CPARISH IS MIDGET STILL CONSIDERED PC I THOUGHT IT WAS CHANGED TO LITTLE PEOPLE -
you'll want to edit the mill9.txt file or the lathe.txt file for lathe or the wire9.txt for wire....
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i personally do not save bitmaps when saving files because when you go get the file i believe that mastercam scans the directory and recreates the bitmaps to ensure any new files that were saved have a bitmap associated with it. i may be wrong here ( probably am ) but i think that is whats happening. just my own $US.02...
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OT/Your favorite Machine shop "Pearls of Wisdom"
Camdude® replied to Scott Bond's topic in Industrial Forum
life is what happens to you while you are busy planning something else -
does it sound too good to be true
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unfortunately banning sausage from the forum prevents the rest of us at having a crack at him. BTW greg, funny comment haven't heard that description in years...
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if your surface routine is cutting air the problem may be the stock to leave parameter. use the depth cuts button and using incremental tab adjust the top of the cut by placing an amount at least equal to the stock to leave. i usually add a value to the adjustment. i.e if leaving .03 stock add .05 for first cut making total value in adjustment to .08
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Carl, er ah i found the site, it's early monday morning so please forgive the lame question
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Carl, thanks for the response. could you please direct me to the ftp site as i do not know where it is..
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As i try not to reinvent the wheel when not necessary i am posting a request to see if anyone has a post processor that outputs Prototrax language for a Prototrax LX2 controller for a lathe. The standard post from CNC is fanuc based and won't run on this controller. the code looks like "G101 XB0.0ZB0.0XE1.0ZE0.0R0.5 TC2 F1.0" any help appreciated....paj
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try activating your ref point function under the parameters page. in it are both an approach and a retract postion. i created a rectangle and placed two points above it one i selected for approach the other for retract.
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why would ANYBODY with 18 meellion ( baby finger to corner of mouth) need your help with any kind of bank transaction.
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kwolf, in my experience parallel steep only "looks" at surfaces that are perpendicular to the angle of cut, surfaces that are parallel to the cut motion are ignored. So i think that as the toolpath runs it is ignoring the surface as it transitions from the "X" plane to the "Y" plane ( curve of the donut), so you will get two separate cuts as it ignores the "Y" plane and reaquires the "X' plane on the other side of the donut. i may be way off on this one so take it with agrain of salt as i am basing this guess on personal experience only.
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Hey PDG, couldn't you also just select the endpoint of one of the splines as the "4th rail"...
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it sounds to me like you may have memory leaks. what kind of RAM do you have on your system and does the mother board support it. also i had problems with mastercam and service pack 6 when i uninstalled service pack 6 and went back to sp5 it solved my problems
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HELP, anyone out there have a post for an Allen-Bradley 7340 controller. here is the wrinkle. the side turret uses straight "G" code but the end turret uses an "H" value instead of a "G" value i.e. side turret reads G01 X000 Z000, the end turret reads the code H01 X000 Z000. any help appreciated
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it is said that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, but right now i feel really incompetent.