Thanks much dude, your tagline is awesome by the way

Hello all, I am trying to figure out how to seperate the Tool number from the M6. It needs to see them on seperate lines but I can seem to figure out how to do it. What I have now is T4 M6 I need T4 M6 Thanks alot in advance Dave

I am no expert, but that sounds pretty fast for that much flute length.

hopefully someone with more experience than me will respond, but I would try 50 surface feet, and .0005 per tooth to start. Hope that helps

I am not positive about how haas does it, but on normal fanuc or mazak controlls this is possible by using a G10 command. You might want to look in your haas book and see if that jumps out at ya. HTH

I seem to be exceptionaly slow this morning. Is the time in cut accurate in backplot, or is it off because of the drilling? Thanks for your help on this one

So is the cut time given in ver 9 or X correct? I know that it cant acount account for toolchanges or rapids, but the time in cut should be pretty darn close I would think.

G61.1 normally turns on the mid range look ahead on mazaks. You dont have to turn it off as it will turn itself off when it reads a G0. Hope that helps

Nevermind, I think I got it figured out, I believe this was a clear case of the Friday brain farts. thanks

I have a straight wall that I need to trochoidal cut, but It apears that this is not doable yet in either X or V9. To try to get around this I have been attempting to highspeed pocket a rectangle, where I would be able to save the backplot as geo and then trim it to do a contour. The problem that I am having is that the high speed pocket routine seems to only want to trochoidal in a conventional method as opposed to climb milling. I am thinking that climb would be better suited to milling this stuff so I am trying to find a way to force climb milling while in a trochoidal move. Anyone else tried to do this? I am trying to do this because I have to machine a one-sided dovetail in a piece of 52RC A8, and the cutter is going to have to be small. This is a production job, so if a work-around is outthere I would love to hear about it. Thanks for your help

Thanks for your replys guys, I have gotten the Dprints to work alright, but the formating sucks and there is nothing that can be done about that. I was looking for a way to get the whole variable table out of the control, from there I could use an excel template to organize and interpret the data in a way that would be much easier to maintain. If there are any more ideas please keep them coming.

I am starting to use the probe a bit on our new machine. It is an FH6800 with a M640 control. The renishaw macros write values to a variable table, when I then re-write them to different variable numbers so I can output all the data at once. This control allows us to save the entire variable table as a text file on the hard drive by going through the data I/O. What I am trying to do from there is to find a way to automate this process and the best bet so far looks to be with a key emulating macro. The problem with those is launching them. So what this all boils down to is this simple question: Does anyone know of a way to launch a dos script or windows app from within an EIA program? I hope that makes a little sense. Thanks for your help

I havnt tried the insane crap I am going for yet with the fanuc control, so I am afraid I wont be of much use. If I come up with any usefull tidbits though I will post them here.

I am working on exactly the same thing on a Mazak6800. The way it works for me now is it printing to a txt file located on the machines hard drive. If we had the machine on the network I could then easily pull that file off, but that is not possible because of network security concerns. What kind a machine are you trying to do this on John?

Its a Mazak 6800 with a 640m control and a 330 tool hive and a 6 pallet pool. We bought just about every option available. Laser offseter, probe, full 4rth, geared head, and just about all the control options with the exception of the mazatrol crap. Bernie, I will dig around in the books to look for the exact stop. It might help, but I have a feeling that arcs would still be faster. Thanks for the replys guys, keep em coming if you have any other ideas

I have not used the new toolpaths yet, but was very interested in the way that you can change linear rapids with some of the surface toolpaths. We do not do a great deal of 3D work here but I was looking for a way to get rid of all the linear rapids in some of our programs. We just got a new horizontal that is fast as H$ll, and it is very noticable when it has to stop at each leg of a rapid move. I am looking for a way to change the rapids on all toolpaths including contour and drilling to arc moves. Any advice apreaciated

I was told by our apps guy that they will not work together. I believe that it will alarm out if you try to run G8 and G5.1 at the same time.

I probably should have included this info in the first post. We have a pretty big tolerance if the threads get loose, because we only use the threads to install/remove the components that are getting threaded. What we can not live with though is tight threads. We use an inserted threadmill to do this, and as it sits now the operator has to check the hole with a thread gage and possible send the pallet back in if they are too tight. I would like to find a way to get the probe to do this and believe that with our +.006 -.000 tolerance on the fit it should be repeatable once dialed in. Thanks for the help guys, keep the replys coming.

Yup that is pretty much what I am looking for, but would like to not have to install bolts. The machine has a pallet system on it, and I would love to have this thing do the inspection without any operator involvement. Thanks for the reply though.

I am trying to start using a renishaw mp700 probe on our new mazak 6800. I have figured out how to do simple measurements, but am looking for a way to measure a threaded hole. The hole is 3/4-16 and I was hoping to take multiple hits in a helix to figure out if the hole was near its desired size and in location. This will have to be done after a threadmill is run through it. If any of you have figured out how to do this I would really appreaciate any input.

I use Trim 206 and the stuff works like a champ. Kinda expensive but has never caused us any issues. We normaly dont change coolant untill it has been in the machine for more than a year, and we run 24/7. hth

I am going to use a stub solid carbide thru coolant drill that is .366, and then just ream to the finish size of .3745. The drill should not be able to walk enought to cause problems with hole locations or spreads. I was looking for a tool that would run fast and consistantly for as long as possible. I have used an endmill to nail the location in the past, but usually only when i am stuck with high speed drills and hss reamers.

We are looking at running thousands of parts per years untill the end of time. I am also using a horizontal for this but was curious about the through coolant option. I will probably end up just using a short solid carbide coated reamer, but thanks for your reply, have a great weekend.

I am looking for some stubby carbide reamers for some heavy production. I was wondering if any of you use through coolant reamers and what your experiences were with them. Any good suppliers would also be apreaciated. Thanks

Thanks for all you have done for me and all the other computer dipshats on this forum. Best of luck to you in the future.