12 hours ago, Del. said:

 He  also said he would buy me some work holding stuff. 

^+   sticker shock when they see what quality workholding cost for wire

sometimes trimming in 2D helps , they don't have to intersect in all 3 axis

what's the logo, maybe someone can help

not sure if this is all just Intergex but a lot of info here

http://victoriacaruk.com/Vici-Integrex-Utilities.html

from what the guy told me partmaker is subscription based and they don't want to pay the $$$$ for minor programming

i'm in the same boat, we just acquired a small swiss shop, he has partmaker but doesn't really know it, does his programming by hand, could sometimes use a little help with some features, are there posts available for Star machines for MC,first would be Star Ecas 32-T with Siemens 840DI control ( *** looking for direction not free post ***)

3 minutes ago, 5th Axis CGI said:

Sad. I showed one company how they were losing $250K a year having slow computers for the 5 programmers. That was just lost profit in programming; that was not even including down time waiting for programs because they didn't have what they needed. They bought one system and when the one programmer starting out producing the other 5 they quickly got 4 more. 

surprised they didn't cut down to 3 programmers

3 minutes ago, Thad said:

Welcome back, JP! 

Glad to see you back with your old ID

2 minutes ago, Corey Hampshire said:

I don't want to hi-jack, but I have to ask.... Why are you guys dealing with such old files? V7 and V9? Do you all have custom stuff that drives off the older file formats? 

thousands of files over the last 25 years, mold work that would sometimes come back for repairs

4 hours ago, svirfnebli said:

 I haven't worked with 2020 yet).

2020 will open V9 files

On 10/4/2019 at 6:45 PM, gcode said:

I do not know anyone who has successfully run V9 on a Win7 machine using a USB hasp

i had it , IT set up a drive with VMware with a USB Hasp

we have an old computer with XP that has V7 and V9 but it's not allowed on the network, i have an old white dongle that goes in the printer port

X5 will open V8, thats the oldest i have installed

On 9/24/2019 at 12:38 PM, geirsj said:

Hi!

 

Do you think of something like this?

 

This is mostly for the operator i guess,  i saw you asked for Mastercam and cam skills after i posted.

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Operator Proficiency Test

 

Section One:  general CNC Questions

 

 

1)  the spindle speed for a particular tool in a program is incorrect

and you wish to reduce it.  The kind of CNC word you must change is:

 

a) an F word

b) a G word

c) an S word

d) a T word

 

2)You determine that a feedrate for a particular tool must be 5.0

inches per minute (or 5 millimeters per minute in the metric mode). The correct

designation in the program would be:

 

a) F0.5

b) S5.0

c) F5.0

d) F0.005

 

 

3) You are running a proven program (one run before) for the first

time in a new setup.  You are cautiously allowing the first tool come into its

approach position when you determine that the tool is not going where it is

supposed to.

It is most likely that.

 

a) the spindle speed is not correct.

b) the program zero designation is not correct

c) the dry run switch should be turned on

d) the programmed coordinates are not correct

 

4)  When coordinates going into a program are specified relative to

the program zero point, it is called:

 

a) the incremental mode

b) the absolute mode

c) the rapid mode

d) the canned cycle mode

 

--------------------------

 

I have 3 pdf files with this tests, I got them some years ago and  can not remember where, but if there are any interest here i can publish them, I do not own the copyright on them.

 

the pdf consist of 3 pages with the questions, and one blank page, and after that blank page is the answers!, so if you want them, be sure to hand out right pages!, lol

 

 

G

 

$hit i have a guy that still doesn't know the difference between a G91 and G90.

i prefer that he doesn't do any editing

10 hours ago, MrFish said:

Can anyone tell me how we go about getting a license for x+ 2020 ?

go to the website and contact Günther

 www.gmccs.de

i would go 90 deg to your current cutting direction or lower your stepover distance

Günther was quick to respond, just remember there is a time difference

you can create a point anywhere you want to start, select that first before your contour geometry, then in above picture select " use entry point"

11 minutes ago, Tinger said:

look at the date it was posted

duh

On 7/18/2011 at 1:46 PM, dannysdad said:

I have MC X5.

Thanks anyway. I have a Mastercam class tomorrow, maybe my instructor can walk me through it.

what class is teaching X5, that's a little behind the times

1 minute ago, JoshC said:

if on windows 10 he should already have it. windows 10 includes the windows print to pdf without extra installers but yes in windows 7 and prior a print to pdf application was needed.

ah, i haven't been updated to 10 yet, couple more week, thats good to know

1 hour ago, JoshC said:

if you dont like the 2 other methods above you can create a PDF file, just do a file print (ctrl+p), then choose print to pdf instead of a printer. This will print the mastercam file to a PDF File instead of sending it to an actual printer.

that only works if you have a pdf create program not from MC, you need adobe 

windows snipping tool

you can save as .png

you can set it so it saves after every operation, worse case you lose one toolpath

under config/files/autosave/backup you set the # of backups

under files/backup files you set the path

you can also use auto save

i used that with save after every operation when i had crashing problems

a file would probably help