hi bob

have you also heard, do not ream?

it has been a long time but think it still holds true. do not try to ream. I have used reamers in titanium. the carbide ones work ok. the hss and cobalt like to seize on the tool. the same thing is said to happen on mag. for ti i have shortened the flute length of the reamer to 1/4 " or so and ream thru with a little success. I have never tried this on mag.

billy

Hi greg,

wfo

just kidding, one thing I have learned is when drilling make sure you take a big enough chip so it throws it off of the drill. the worst thing for me is when the plastic balls up on the tool it starts to melt and damage the part.

beside that everything is pretty easy. you can pretty much run as fast as you want. just try not to melt the plastic.

holding the part can get strange. unlike metal where you can hang on to 1/8" in a vise. the plastic will deform and make life tough. so be sure you are holding enough to secure you workpiece.

billy

change feed plane and top of stock to 0 incremental.

well,

here's something. I think it is the ibm 360 apt manual converted to html.

peace

billy

http://learning.dtpm.unipa.it/emc/it/apt_doc/index.html

scientific,

chalk one up for simi valley.

home of the santa susana field lab.

watch us glow.

billy

ps

3 mile island was a candle

+1 bob

that's how i do it always. I just use a radius of .01 or .02 and 0 for line length and use start point.

you could use a lead in/out.

the thing is that when you create a circle the endpoint is to the right at 0 degrees. you could rotate the circle -90 degrees and it will go y-. other wise it should go x+.

if you want to start and finish at the same point then specify it in the lead in/out page.

billy

i have seen this many times wen creating bbox around a solid.

try create curve all edges solid or

create surfaces all faces and then create bbox around new geo.

that's a cute bunny.

make sure you point your pinky when you drink tea and please don't ask for a post processor.

billy

fastmode$ : no$ #CD_VAR Enable Quick Post Processing,

******** (set to no for debug) *****

when drilling make sure that you take a fast enough to throw the chip off the drill. if the chips ball up it will melt the top of the part.

Happy fire season Jay. we look pretty good here in simi. the moorpqrk fire wont be here until noon or so. i hope the ss field lab doesn't catch again this year. I hate the smell of sodium reactors in the morning. still things could be worse. we've only had 1 earthquake this year.

if you need anything just let me know. you can use the shop for storage or whatever.

billy

there used to be a chook called colorfeed. i used it in ver6.

+1 to cutting outside in. the scary thing is the price. i use butter board mostly. i can get to 2" not very expensive. then i glue them to thickness.

i have used other material that i dont know the name of. some was blue red and pink. most of it cost more than aluminum. some of it was way more.

check your gap setting. increasing the gap will usually allow the step between paths to connect.

i forgot to use flowline.

i like flat em but use the 2 vertical walls as check surfaces so you don't gouge them.

john,

i will wave when we go by. my wife and are going on 14 day panama canal cruise. close to same time. i call it a a one way trip to fort lauderdale. stops in cabo,acapulco,guateca,costa rica,panama and columbia.

can't wait.

try college of the canyons.

ask your neighbor jay.

"Disney was good, my granddaughter had a blast and that is what it was all about."

+1 family fun time

welcome home,

How was disneyworld?

in version 9 you could do

analyze

surfaces

set normals

and it would flip all normals to out and up

i don't see the same function in x.

does snyone know if there is a reason to set normals ( or not to) in x?

try analyze

test surfaces and solids

the other point that i have come across is a machine that has been crashed a few times and the ways have moved. they take a while to adjust but i wouldn't be afraid to loosen them and adjust small areas.