reseller help would be the quickest.

Welcome to the forum.

All I have had to do is to hack a post (mplfan) to change the sign of the Z, and reverse the G2, G3 by subtracting Mcams variable from 5.

Worked great for Nomura Swiss w/ Mitsubishi control.

(in MC9)

cp

http://www.abtoolsinc.com/

cp

AB Tools started out making carbide keyseat cutters.

None of their product has failed me yet.

Get a 2 fluter and let'er rip !!

cp

how's about in Db ???

Could be run-out in the tool holder system.

At that dia. the more true it runs the longer it'll last.

In Aluminum we went from 90 pcs/emill to 1200 pcs/emill (.0938 dia) just by using a Nikken Mini-Mini collet setup w/ guarenteed runout of .00015 or less

cp

Does the puller have the bar before the spindle moves ??

If so, mabye you can re-orient the spindle after the chuck has closed after the bar-pull.

cp

addendum: pccdia also occurs in prapidout,

plinout,

pcirout (altho I don't know why)

cp

here is one place:

pccdia #Cutter Compensation

#Force Dxx#

if prv_cc_pos$ <> cc_pos$ & cc_pos$, prv_tloffno$ = c9k

sccomp

if cc_pos$, tloffno$

Methinks the lead of the th'd would be ok but

the geo at the major dia's crest would have much too large a radius.

Might work if the th'd mills teeth came to a point.

Then again, if the 14p th'd mill id used like that for a 56p thread, there might be clearance problems in the th'd form due to helix angle differences.

my .02

cp

edit : that should be far enough, the fat belongs to my fingers today i guess

cp

+1000 to everybody !!

Also take into account the dims of the pallet plate.

If there is enough axes stroke, the spindle cover or cowling might hit the pallet plate if

the tool isn't extended fat enough, 'specially if the tstone is indexed 45 degrees so's the corner of the pallet plate is aligned to the Z axis.

(learned that one the hard way)

cp

Works fine fo me. Just like Trim to Point,'exept the Break button is selected instead of trim.

cp

Mabye if you move the circle to a different level, shut off the original level w/ the offending arcs.

Or shut the level w/ the circle you need off, then delete the offending arcs, turn the circle level back on and try it???

btw, Welcome to the forum

www.emuge.com

cp

Floating holder or solid ????

Opinions please !

cp

That would be a nice feature !!

Shootin' for the 24th myself

cp

ps, if you can , drill hole to .161 dia instead of usual .159 dia

cp

+1000 to John

if ya gotta use a tapping head I'd check out Tapmatic if they are still around.

cp

xform -> translate -> copy 1 -> from there -> to

here, and here, and here, and here, and here, etc

cp

I just posted a tranformed rectangle using the stock McamX Fanuc 3 axis generic mill.

Drew 1 rectangle , Transform , translate toolplane origin only checked, Method=toolplane ,rectangular , x spacing = 2

y spacing = 2, x steps=3, y steps=3

and got this for a result

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O0000(MACHINE_GROUP_1)

(DATE=DD-MM-YY - 28-04-06 TIME=HH:MM - 15:33)

(MCX FILE - T)

(NC FILE - C:MCAMXMILLNCMACHINE_GROUP_1.NC)

(MATERIAL - ALUMINUM INCH - 2024)

( T236 | 5/16 FLAT ENDMILL | H236 )

N100 G20

N102 G0 G17 G40 G49 G80 G90

N104 T236 M6

N106 G0 G90 G54 X.1428 Y.936 S2300 M3

N108 G43 H236 Z.1

N110 G1 Z-.25 F8.

N112 M98 P1001

N114 G0 G90 Z.1

N116 G55 X.1428 Y.936 Z.1

N118 G1 Z-.25 F8.

N120 M98 P1001

N122 G0 G90 Z.1

N124 G56 X.1428 Y.936 Z.1

N126 G1 Z-.25 F8.

N128 M98 P1001

N130 G0 G90 Z.1

N132 G57 X.1428 Y.936 Z.1

N134 G1 Z-.25 F8.

N136 M98 P1001

N138 G0 G90 Z.1

N140 G58 X.1428 Y.936 Z.1

N142 G1 Z-.25 F8.

N144 M98 P1001

N146 G0 G90 Z.1

N148 G59 X.1428 Y.936 Z.1

N150 G1 Z-.25 F8.

N152 M98 P1001

N154 G0 G90 Z.1

N156 G54.1 P1 X.1428 Y.936 Z.1

N158 G1 Z-.25 F8.

N160 M98 P1001

N162 G0 G90 Z.1

N164 G54.1 P2 X.1428 Y.936 Z.1

N166 G1 Z-.25 F8.

N168 M98 P1001

N170 G0 G90 Z.1

N172 G54.1 P3 X.1428 Y.936 Z.1

N174 G1 Z-.25 F8.

N176 M98 P1001

N178 G0 G90 Z.1

N180 M5

N182 G91 G28 Z0.

N184 G28 X0. Y0.

N186 M30

O1001

N100 Y.836 F10.

N102 G3 X.2428 Y.936 R.1

N104 G1 Y1.2163

N106 G2 X.3991 Y1.3725 R.1563

N108 G1 X1.3398

N110 G2 X1.496 Y1.2163 R.1562

N112 G1 Y.6556

N114 G2 X1.3398 Y.4994 R.1562

N116 G1 X.3991

N118 G2 X.2428 Y.6556 R.1562

N120 G1 Y.936

N122 G3 X.1428 Y1.036 R.1

N124 G1 Y.936

N126 M99

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methinks the big difference was the selection of the toolplane method instead of coordinate.

cp

John , it seems as if the offending files dissapear so there is nothing to send to QC.

I haven't had this problem yet (knock on wood)

cp