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Are you able to have 250 offsets in the machine? I did that on a deckel with 30 tool magazine that had a cupboard of around 100 tools next to it. The deckel would take 300 offsets so we just assigned a tool to a pocket and only had to re-measure when something broke.
Bruce
Careful with the air turbine spindles, the runout may be more than the drill can take. The best air turbine I could find for a similarly crazy job was dicy for a 0.3mm drill. 0.005 runout on 0.1mm drill is way too much.
Bruce
How you see it depends entirely on your personal experience and the equipment and tools you have available.
And what side of bed you got out of....
Bruce
I won't be paying maintenance this year, so will miss the MU for X4. I haven't had much time to beta test lately so I suppose technically I share some of the "blame".
Having said that I am firmly of the opinion that more frequent service packs are needed to fix bugs whether someone is on maintenance or not.
I know all software has bugs, but that is not an acceptable reason to bundle the bug fixes with the improvements.
Bruce
I didn't update. All I did was install with no migration. I will get around to setting up X4 here on the weekend.
No migration, no post/md/cd updates, just a clean X4 install. I can't think of any reason it would have affected my X3 post, but not my X2 post.
Anyway, no damage done as I had a backup. Just thought I would share in case someone had the same thing happen and couldn't explain it as well.
Bruce
Ahoy!
A strange one. It didn't take long to fix since I had a backup, but:
After installing X4 on the work PC with NO MIGRATION the X3 post for my mills went all skuif.
When using X3, F0 on 4th axis G01 moves, no thru tool coolant available, no S call in rigid tapping, and a few other minor little gremlins.
Post filename was correct, MD and CD were correct (I only use one, the rest are gone to save confusion)
I am the only one that uses MC here, so unless I have been sleep-post editing the onlky thing I can think of is that the X4 install somehow had some input??
Bruce
Ahoy!
I don't at the moment have a tool and cutter grinder, but occasionally get a job where a special tool is needed for 1 off use.
I have machined silver steel and then flame hardened and tempered followed by a hand finish/sharpen and this has seen me through the simpler jobs in not so hard materials.
BUT:
Another one has popped up that is in a harder material than a silver steel tool may like, so was wondering if anyone had machined HSS blanks before?
I might try it on the weekend and see how I go. Tool is sort of a broach so I will be milling it. I know I can send it out to be made, but the qty on the job doesn't really justify it. Also I know that another shop quoting it already has some of this equipment so can't load up the quote with tooling.
I was thinking of using a Tialn endmill with small corner rads, say 16mm with R0.5 and going flat out 8000RPM (wish I had more) with 0.02mm step down using surface finish contour.
thoughts?
Bruce
I use X+ as well. All operator instructions are included in the MC file as manual entries. When I am done and ready to print a SUS, I just select what I want and bingo, a one page SUS with all the info I need. I have used this from simple bits and pieces to some pretty wild 5ax aerospace parts with several hundred toolpath operations.
Never had a problem once I had everything set up.
Bruce
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