Yep on something like that I would mdi in a g54 xo yo Let you know right away if machine is touched off right or not.

Yep on something like that I would mdi in a g54 xo yo Let you know right away if machine is touched off right or not.

I won't be surprised if solidworks doesn't come out with its own cam software like the big three or buy out and intregrate someones elses software. They have the revenue to do so and that would really set them out of the other mid-range modelers.jmo

God thats 50k in worthless software. You have some luck. I hope your the owner otherwise the explaining has to fun.

check your mail.

I uploaded one called 6548-6gv I would offset the pocket contours I made by say .1 to make it roll your edges better. Outside contour out and inside contour in I redid it that way and it looks better. If ya want I can zip that one and mail it to you. The last one was quite large on the ftp so I don't want to just keep loading them. Let me know. Gary

that would be me THE knowledge center. sorry couldn't resist

Yeah same here.

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No I should have said a pocket toolpath and and offset arc or just draw a smaller one and use that to trim your pocket toolpath. Just program it with small spiral step out and trim what you don't want. hth Gary

can you use a pocket spiral and then do a toolpath trim with another offset contour. This would let it spiral out you could do a contour with multi passes but the stepovers are straight into the stock.

Just the american way lol

cheap dollar general dishsoap. those small items add up. I love work

Kinda like dating you must figure on going in like a dick then play nice guy to get what you want. I love it.

I used contour on the sides and shallow on the bottom and through in a pencil trace to clean the bottom radius. But, as Jimmy said an 1/8 ball is needed to get it to finish out good. I have what I did at home so if you need it let me know and I will post it up tonight. Gary bye the way nice looking facility you got there.

i added a file (ellipsegv)to the ftp. Is this what you want.

coons worked if you want the surf let me know

I tryed sweep loft and revolved and no luck. be curious what people come up with.

Played with your toolpaths, just little mods seemed to help. If you used a surface rgh pocket it would probally save more time I gotta run or I'd play with it some more. I added 1 behind your file name and posted it back up. I'm sure others will give better stuff.

Even incremental works quite well (when I've not had it set to absolute by accident) but with machines like haas that the machine does the 45° thing on its rapids not so well.

yeah me too.

Not sure on integrated but laptop is a only a radeon 9700 64mb. Its a standard on my gateway. It totally sucked with 9 before that dll made it way better. Can acually see surf norms and chain direction without shutting the accel completely off.

Holy crap Henk where you been with that one? Way improvement with ati and also the integrated pos on the dell. You da man

I use to do alot of subgating molds with a .04 dia and only had 4500 on the machine that the head angled on. I had good luck with bright finish hss and better with cobalt the trick for me was real small pecks to get the chips out of the hole.

Is the guy doing just enough programming to get the tool hes selling running or is he doing the whole job on complicated stuff? I can't believe he's got hours to burn in order to program these jobs. There ain't that much money in tooling especially to shops that don't have a programmer and if they do they are just going to xxxx him off and alot of times he, like me is the one that decides what tools to buy for doing the job. Maybe you should check into selling tooling as part of your side work just to see how far he's willing to go. I'm sure there are tool distributors out there that would love a guy like you promoting his tools while also showing how mastercam can optimise these tools. Plus you will get programming work from it. Man up by me a good programmer could sell tools a hell of a lot easier than a tool rep that knows nothing about how to approach a job with his tools.