Tinny
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I have change T/C plane when changing Gview checked and have no problem at all.
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It doesn't happen to me, but it happens to another user in my office.
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We had a problem with 5-axis toolpaths. If you get flats ( like a fifty pence piece. I dunno what the American equivalent is.....) on surfaces the answer is to use point generators. I used 0.1 distance and 0.2 angle. Gives a huge toolpath but does the job.
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Mastercam 9 ??? Yeah i really miss that. It used to crash at least 3 times a day - very frustrating. X2 very rarely crashes, and even when it does it is easy to recover. As the others say, when you get used to it its really good and I would never go back to v9. The first release of X was pants, but CNC software have got their act together and put out a really polished product now.
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You dont need to do that, just click the icon next to the radio button. ( the arrow icon )
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Been watching the cricket lately Bruce?
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quote: I'm sorry to hear about the job thing Tinny (in all seriousness).As that path in life another ended another opened in Aerospace. I had a good payoff which paid for my house and maybe I would never had got into a well paid programming job if I had stayed ( I was on the shop floor back then ) C'est la vie as they say in Paris.
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+1 Dynamic compensation. It's good, but remember you cannot use high speed machining options when it is active. There isn't a controller powerful enough to work out all of those calcalation at once.
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We have 5 Mazak Variaxis 500's. They have +30 -120 deg travel in the A axis like Bruce said. The Matsuura's are nice machines and I think if we hadn't already go loads of 4 axis Mazaks we would have gone with them instead.
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With a cricket side like ours, you do need a sense of humour.
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I know all about the M777, its the gun which cost me my first job....... Having said that I too would like to say I don't give a flying fig about Paris too
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You get me wrong, my comments were with tongue firmly implaced in my cheek.
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Can I ask for a bit of maturity before this thread decends into a "my measurement system is better than yours" arguement We need a universal measurement system. Most of the work we do is metric, but we still get a few "oldschool" imperial drawings lol
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I cant rate Sankviks R790 range highly enough. They have always been the mutts nutts for me.
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quote: Yeah, you guys in Europe use that screwy thing called the Metric system too meh thinks.I was brought up with inches and "thou's" however I now prefer metric, its a lot easier. All you guys drive on the wrong side of the road as well
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Ok I can now see the benifit as a safty margin kind of thing, but we have very skilled people here and off days like forgetting to enter an offset are very few and far between. Our tools are pre set and the values entered onto a chip in the pullstud. The offset information is read when the tool goes into the machine. We can even put the tool in any pocket in our 60 tool 5 axis and the control sorts it out, we just have to call a 4 digit toolnumber assigned to the chip on the pullstud.
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Lol what I mean is will it compensate away or towards the material?
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Just as a matter of interest, what would happen if you had a wear proogram and someone entered an offset into the control?
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I dont see anything in the arguements above that convince me wear is better or worse than control. Its down to choice in the end, and changing a shop's programs from control to wear would be an expensive waste of time. Do you guys use tool pre-setters?
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I must be in the minority cos I always use control. I was "brought up that way" and so were the 120 or so operators in my factory. Maybe its just the way you do things in America as opposed to the UK. No-one has ever had a problem with it in any way whatso ever.
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quote: should be in toolpaths-transform-mirror select the operation and how to mirror HTH That does not work for us on true left-right hand components,. You have to mirror geometry and set new c-planes.
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My first 5 axis part to program, need advice
Tinny replied to Yogesh K. Raman's topic in Industrial Forum
I cannot quite see the profile of the grooves, is it a "u" or "v" profile? Due to the large flat up the side of the helix profile maybe a taper ballnose could do a job for you. Edit: Are you using a Mazak Variaxis 500? -
Planes - named view?
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Tinny replied to Ken Erman from CNC Software Inc.'s topic in Industrial Forum
How about a one click conversion of a right hand part into a left handed part, with all the toolpaths updated to go the right way and the toolplanes mirrored correctly. -
Is there a way to finish a wall and floor on the same pass?
Tinny replied to DavidSV's topic in Industrial Forum
Hi, I'm sorry I am a bit confused. Why do you not use control?