13 hours ago, byte me said:

Jp is okay, I think he might enjoy giving newbies a hard time a bit too much, but he seems to have some job knowledge and I've seen him help a few people out.

 

Mostly just running around telling people they need training and calling them pirates, usually he's right... 

I think JP just gets tired of people posting  "program my part for me because i don't want to put any effort into it" and training from someone who makes a living at it is not what i want to do

14 minutes ago, GF8er said:

X7 is available to download on the Mastercam website.

oh yeah, goes back to X3

15 minutes ago, nickbe10 said:

Yep, I remember my reseller contacted me last year and warned me that if I wanted to download X3(?) I would be able to upgrade V7 files....last chance....still might be easier to get a copy of X3.

i even had some V3 files that i needed the geometry from

3 minutes ago, nickbe10 said:

I think you can upgrade V9 files from X5 or X6 (I could be wrong but I seem to remember upgrading a load of V9 files when I first came here and I think we were on X5 or X6). You might still be able to download those from CNC.

Problem might be loading out of sequence, that is if you are loading over a newer version . If you have an old laptop you can use for this purpose it might save some trouble, and it doesn't have to be terribly powerful just to do file updates.

X5 will open V9 i still keep V5 for that purpose but I needed V9 to open V7, I have thousands of files that we used to repair molds from

19 hours ago, nickbe10 said:

Not sure they wanted to pay for it....

V9 was a highly pirated version

22 hours ago, JParis said:

It's dead, let it die...

There are HASP issues, video issues, hardware/software issues...

People can get it to launch on a Nethasp,  There's a legend that some of have gotten a Hasp to run but it's just that a legend....even if you can get it to run it's dodgey at best.

Let it die

my hasp goes back to V7, I can run V9 on a older computer but only use it when i needed to convert some really old files

7 minutes ago, cam-eleon said:

For a pocket I don't think it will call dia comp

if you have finish pass checked it will with proper lead in

Just now, JParis said:

@crazy^millman is there an echo in here?  

Just now, JParis said:

@crazy^millman is there an echo in here?  

Just now, JParis said:

@crazy^millman is there an echo in here?  

Just now, JParis said:

@crazy^millman is there an echo in here?  

44 minutes ago, So not a Guru said:

My company doesn't want to purchase maintenance for X+. A shame, because I would love to support Günther.

Instead I learned how to make Active Reports do what I need, for setup sheets.

don't understand , it's pennies in the long run, how many hours did you spend to get active reports compared to 5 minutes to set up X+

21 hours ago, #Rekd™ said:

My lunch is terrible today!!! 

go VEGAN , then life is wonderful  

29 minutes ago, JParis said:

Oh it happens....might it be reflected in to 500+ meg file I am working, maybe....but it has happened to me as well

didn't mean to imply that it doesn't happen, just that it's not cause to condemn Mastercam completely 

On 8/13/2020 at 7:42 AM, Leon82 said:

2020 crashes sometimes if you change the diameter while the fillet is still blue 

2021 i just did 50 different fillets changing radius  while still blue, sometimes it wouldn't take the first selection of the line but haven't crashed, actually i haven't had any crashes with 2021

JMO

On 8/13/2020 at 6:47 AM, Born to machine said:

If I buy a car and the management system is at fault I get it fixed under warranty no question.. 

 

did you ever try it , because in my experience they do everything they can to deny it and get out of having to fix it.

6 minutes ago, JParis said:

Ours just moved all of our machines to a separate internal network utilizing the Mazak MT Connect Boxes

we only have the one so just use a thumb drive, they do most of their own programming in mazatrol

IT won't allow our Mazak to be on the network because it's windows based,

we got hit a couple years back, my computer was one of the ones it started on, the first thing it hit was my post  .pst

i noticed right away when i couldn't post a file and unplugged from the network

luckily we were backed up off site and only lost one day but my computer was hosed from then on

12 minutes ago, BILL HUNTER said:

Most people want an All-In-One package. 

and what are you basing this on? 3 people that you work with and two you know at another company

got help here when Mazak couldn't  help

26 minutes ago, BILL HUNTER said:

I never understood why this would be useful. Explain to me why you would use this please?

use to use it all the time when we would get digitized path and had to make changes but had no way to model

reverse post and save backplot

3 minutes ago, So not a Guru said:

Following

there is a follow button at the top and you will get emails when there is a reply

13 minutes ago, crazy^millman said:

 tool and die. 

tool and die shop grad here, my teacher just died a couple years ago, was in his 90's.

still picking out things he taught me that i didn't really grasp at the time

e... both a and c

we had a broaching head on the hyperquadrex we had that was sweet ($15,000)

made a 10 minute broaching  about 15 seconds but we sold the machine

Mazak gave me a broaching program for for our integrex

17 hours ago, Matthew Hajicek - Conventus said:

Sorry I'm late to the party.  We do 6Al4V bone plates on the trunnion on the Haas.  I've been using Helical and Harvey cutters with good results.  Dynamic roughing with a 1/2" x 1.25" 7 flute .030" radius bull (27287) and Helical's recommended parameters i get five hours of tool life, in a shrink fit holder with 1000PSI TSC.  I got some Kennametal Harvi 3's and some of Helical's new Ti specific cutters but haven't had a chance to try them yet, didn't want to change the proven process in production.

we about doubled using the Helical Ti specific cutters

and that's with a HAAS, if we had real machines watch out

https://www.helicaltool.com/products/titanium-6-flute-corner-radius-variable-pitch

Helical just came out with some Ti specific end mills , work well.

non-coated carbide usually works best

14 minutes ago, GeorgeLeeO said:

I've run into a problem with master cam v9 where when I post my program none of the g or m codes are in the program and there are also no x, y, z coordinates either just numbers

well that sounds like a pirated problem