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Leon82

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  1. How big is your material boundary? If you don't put one in I believe it makes a square out of everything you picked. Draw containment boundary The area you wanted to cut on a different level so you can turn it off later. Select that as boundary it will call it a material boundary It shouldn't go below that more than half the tool
  2. Steep shallow settings have max and min depth. Also you can make a flat surface bigger than the boundary
  3. I had a z depth issue like that and it was because I had an associative clearance height. As soon as I went back to incremental it was fine.
  4. It's possible that 1 leg of the 3 phase relay is bad
  5. You usually get that when the points are 180 degrees apart.
  6. I made a clear offset maco for after a job clearing tool offsets. It puts 40 inches for z in the event a tool hasn't been touched off.. I would be interested in yours once you get it figured out. The renishaw probe settings program turns the look ahead off also I believe
  7. Usually when we probe z for every part the tracks relatively well. Have a probe the part right before you cut the feature. You can't probe it and then a half hour later after running blast coolant expected to be thermally stable when you cut that feature. Are you using a lot of through spindle coolant? That will heat the enclosure 10 to 20° above room temperature at prolonged periods of time.
  8. When I did it they called out a thickness It was like an acme thread. I just experimented with the contour chain rotating it until I got what I wanted. You can do the same thing for a regular thread
  9. There is a notch to use the 1/16 pin to locate
  10. We made some super thin ones because the smaller one would have had to double the material size
  11. 2020 crashes sometimes if you change the diameter while the fillet is still blue
  12. It works good for divide. I was doing some plunge milling and I used it to trim the inside of the arcs I drew so I could use it as a air region. I just wave the mouse around and I was done. But if you go too fast sometimes it reinserts the trim
  13. It happened to me. I would switch to another planes origin. I had to delete it and make a new one. Associate was not checked for either plane
  14. I have also been trimming lines to radiuses and miraculously six or seven of them just disappear gone forever. Like they were deleted
  15. I can't stand when it deletes partial radiuses when you make fillets
  16. Is there a way to make it not associative by default? I always have to uncheck it in the advanced page.
  17. I have seen tapping and some drilling cycles ad hours to run times before. What is your feed rate, toolpath ect....
  18. how big is your current tip bin? What about a small hopper? We use macx bins https://www.decadeproducts.com/products?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=products_ad&gclid=CjwKCAjwjqT5BRAPEiwAJlBuBdp6EYhEvEfvMhFXj3Y7EESlIuL41GEJ8cyziGQptkb_kirUSCxZJhoCyQMQAvD_BwE. They are about 4 ft x 4 ft x 3 ft
  19. Newer controllers have more advanced lookahead that can be adjusted for tolerance also and make a sizable difference in time. The problem is on the old machines if you go too fast you can round the corner off
  20. Camplete has the 3+1 block which you can remove the Z0 (works on fanuc). It only uses it at A-90 only when the c axis changes though. Have you tried making separate ops and then using multiaxis link? It's a little more programming but if you have a million pieces I guess it's worth it.
  21. We have some kind of virtual server thing I think because we're itar also.

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