Well My re-seller got in touch with me and is going to give me a price on a post for the Swiss. I fell confident that with the right post it should be able to handle it. Thanks for the responses

Hi Guy's, I was wandering if Mastercam Lathe can program a 2 axes Swiss Machine (Citizen) any help would be great!!!

We have 3 Twin-32's and 1 Twin-42 DMG's at our other facility and the amount of down time is more than anybody should ever have to deal with. I personally don't work on them but I do see the monthly Machine repair statements. Before you buy you should talk to some owners in the area and see what they think about the support they get in IL, and especially now that they have teamed up the guy from Arthur Machine Tool to create another Company. Bottom line ask around!!!

I think it was $4 something back in 1981 blasting, deburring, straightening and polishing parts. Still at the same company all these years?

I would have thought that there would have been a Chook but what you suggested is what I thought. Thanks for the reply

I have a project that I'm working on and I need to put numbers Ascending next to each hole down 15 a across 16 going from 1-220 is their an easy way to do this?

Link We have three of these and they work great!!!

We do Aerospace and Medical and thank god for Medical its been keeping some of us at 45hrs some at 40hrs we are definitely down from last year at this time about 20% but the doors are still open!!!

Thanks Ernie I'll give it a try

Any update on this one yet?

When you open the toolbar states it only allows you to delete from the left column not the right column witch is were the X+ tab is?

When I go to "Settings/Customize/Toolbar States" and check the "X+" it puts a small little box out into the screen but I can't do anything with it. If I move it up to my toolbar you can't read it?

Ooops Hey Ray, Their working on it I just thought I could try and fix it myself with a little help. Were a little slow right now so I'm taking the time to trying to get all my posts working the way they should. But like Scott said this is the one from In-House so they are going to fix it for me I thought it might be something I could do but I guess not. Hope things are good with you if your still here that means your still programming that’s good?

Hey Ray,

this is how its posting now code: N17T4M6(4-40 TAPRH) G0G90G17G95G54X-5.3134Y.75B-90.A0.S400M3T1 G43H4Z1.2M8 M10("A" CLAMP) M68("B" CLAMP) S400 G98G84Z.7R1.225F.025 G80 G95 G0Y-.75Z1.2 G80 G0 S400 G98G84Z.7F.025 G80 This is how I would like to have it come out code: N17T4M6(4-40 TAPRH) G0G90G17G94G54X-5.3134Y.75B-90.A0.S400M3T1 G43H4Z1.2M8 M10("A" CLAMP) M68("B" CLAMP) G95(IPR) M29S400(RIGID TAPPING) G98G84Z.7R1.225F.025 G80 G94(IPM) G0Y-.75Z1.2 G95(IPR) M29S400(RIGID TAPPING) G98G84Z.7F.025 G80 G94(IPM) my post code: ptap$ #Canned Tap Cycle pdrlcommonb #RH/LH based on spindle direction if rigid_tap, pbld, n$, *sm29, *speed, e$ #Rigid Tapping if use_pitch = 0, [ pcan1, pbld, n$, *sgdrlref, *sgdrill, pdrlxy, pfzout, pcout, pindexdrl, prdrlout, peck1$, *feed, strcantext, e$ ] else, [ if met_tool$, pitch = n_tap_thds$ # Tap pitch (mm per thread) else, pitch = 1/n_tap_thds$ # Tap pitch (inches per thread) pcan1, pbld, n$, *sgdrlref, *sgdrill, pdrlxy, pfzout, pcout, pindexdrl, prdrlout, peck1$, *pitch, !feed, strcantext, e$ ] pcom_movea TIA

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Degmc I can't get that link to work for me?

this is what I have now code: N1G90T14M6(1/4 HOG ENDMILL) G0G94G17G90G59X4.1Y.6S5730M3 G43H14Z.1M8 G8P1(LOOK-AHEAD ON) Z-.5 G1Z-.525F10.3 Y-.6 G0Z.075 Y.6 G8P0(LOOK-AHEAD OFF) Z-.525 G1Z-.55 Y-.6 G0Z.05 Y.6 Z-.55 G1Z-.575 Y-.6 G0Z.025 Y.6 Z-.575 G1Z-.6 Y-.6 G0Z0. Y.6 Z-.6 G1Z-.625 Y-.6 G0Z-.025 Y.6 Z-.625 G1Z-.65 Y-.6 G0Z-.05 Y.6 Z-.65 G1Z-.675 Y-.6 G0Z-.075 Y.6 Z-.675 G1Z-.7 Y-.6 G0Z-.1 Y.6 Z-.7 G1Z-.725 Y-.6 G0Z-.125 Y.6 Z-.725 G1Z-.75 Y-.6 G0Z-.15 Y.6 Z-.75 G1Z-.775 Y-.6 G0Z-.175 Y.6 Z-.775 G1Z-.8 Y-.6 G0Z-.2 Y.6 Z-.8 G1Z-.825 Y-.6 G0Z-.225 Y.6 Z-.825 G1Z-.85 Y-.6 G0Z-.25 Y.6 Z-.85 G1Z-.875 Y-.6 G0Z-.275 Y.6 Z-.875 G1Z-.9 Y-.6 G0Z-.3 Y.6 Z-.9 G1Z-.925 Y-.6 G0Z-.325 Y.6 Z-.925 G1Z-.95 Y-.6 G0Z-.35 Y.6 Z-.95 G1Z-.975 Y-.6 G0Z-.375 Y.6 Z-.975 G1Z-1. Y-.6 G0Z-.4 Y.6 Z-1. G1Z-1.025 Y-.6 G0Z-.425 Y.6 Z-1.025 G1Z-1.05 Y-.6 G0Z-.45 Y.6 Z-1.05 G1Z-1.075 Y-.6 G0Z-.475 Y.6 Z-1.075 G1Z-1.1 Y-.6 G0Z-.5 Y.6 Z-1.1 G1Z-1.125 Y-.6 G0Z.1 M9S200 G91G28Z0.M5 G40G49 M1 N2G90T4M6(15/32 ENDMILL 5FL) G0G94G17G90G59X3.8231Y.5572S3056M3 G43H4Z1.125M8 G8P1(LOOK-AHEAD ON) Z-.5 G1Z-1.125F22.9 G41D74Y.5338 G3X3.87Y.4869I.0469J0. G2X4.2069Y.15I0.J-.3369 G1Y-.15 G2X3.87Y-.4869I-.3369J0. G3X3.8231Y-.5338I0.J-.0469 G1G40Y-.5572 G0Z1.125 Y.5547 Z-.5 G1Z-1.125 G41D74Y.5313 G3X3.87Y.4844I.0469J0. G2X4.2044Y.15I0.J-.3344 G1Y-.15 G2X3.87Y-.4844I-.3344J0. G3X3.8231Y-.5313I0.J-.0469 G1G40Y-.5547 G0Z1.125 Y.5547 Z-.5 G1Z-1.125 G41D74Y.5313 G3X3.87Y.4844I.0469J0. G2X4.2044Y.15I0.J-.3344 G1Y-.15 G2X3.87Y-.4844I-.3344J0. G3X3.8231Y-.5313I0.J-.0469 G1G40Y-.5547 G0Z1.125 G8P0(LOOK-AHEAD OFF) M9S200 G91G28Z0. G40G49 G28Y0. M30 % the second tool is fine the first tool has no comp, so I would like to not have it turn o then?

The post is set to vertical and in the toolpath parameters page planes(wcs) is set to "wcs=top" "tool plane=front" "comp/construction plane=front" Now I just checked something before I sent this reply and it worked I'm so used to setting my wcs for indexing that I didn't realize for simple vise work using the wcs works but in the parameters page it needs to be set to wcs=front so it knows its not indexing. Thanks for all the help guys I just need to not over think stuff

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are set to "wcs:front t/cplanes:front(top)"

When I go to that screen it asks me to enter access code # I don't have one I thought it was free? How do I get that number.

I'm machining on the front side of the part and I'm not indexing so I don't want any indexes to post out but this is what I get code: % O6666(GUNDRILL) (DATE: JUN-18-2009) G80 G91G28Z0.T1 G0G90G17G94G54Y0. G40G49 N1G90M6( 1/4 CENTERDRILL) G0G94G17G90G54X-2.375Y3.375S1000M3T2 G43H1Z.5M8 G98G81Z-.22A-90.R.25F1.<<<< X-1.5 X1. X3.5 X4.375 X3.Y2.625 Y0. X-2.375Y-3.375 X-1.5 X1. X3.Y-2.625 X3.5Y-3.375 X4.375 G80 M9S200 G91G28Z0.M5 M21(A0.)<<<<< G40G49 M1 Link to (mpmaster 4 axis mv-jr qc.pst) TIA

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