Thanks gcode

When I updated 9.0 with service pack 1, the window header read "Master CAM Mill Version 9.0SP1. My boss just updated his new 9.1 install with SP1 but we cant find any where that it says that it is actually installed. He may have just unzipped it in the MC9.1 directory but not installed it. Would it also say SP1 on the window header? We hit Ctrl+V but that also says nothing about SP1 being installed.

Never mind, I was in the wrong screen I found it, Thanks

The last tab in my operations mgr. is Roughing/Finishing parameters. I am using MC9.0. I see a High Speed button but it is only activated if I select the High speed path and there is nothing in there about feed rate. I am obviously not on the same window your refering to.

Is there a way to slow the feed rate near the side wall of a pocket? Example would be roughing a rectangular pocket using zig zag and having the feed during the long cut be faster than the feed at the pocket edge where the cutter moves over for the next long pass.

I asked MasterCAM directly about this question in differance to threads linked above, MC does indeed use all the CPU when it is the application in focus. It releases the CPU when it is in the background.

We have a job coming that is created in CATIA V? and I would like to know if anyone has the CATIA to MC9 convertor? Will it convert the solids to solids? Will the conversion be editable? Will the convertor work on V4 & V5? I have successfully saved a CATIA V5 file to .iges and then brought that into MC9, but there are only surfaces. No lines, arcs, points, etc. I have used Create/Curve/All edges to create edge geometry, but the arcs are rendered as splines so I can't find the radius or center of them. Very frustrating. I don't want to spend money on a convertor if it doesnt have any better results that the .iges converted method.

Never mind I figured it out. The 0.0 min cut depth is from the amount to leave on drive surfaces, not the Z0.0 position.

I am cutting an airfoil shape and leaving .05 mat'l for finish. I dont want to cut a lot of air so I set the minimum cut depth to 0.0, but it is still cutting above the mat'l by .04 The finish part is .01 below the mat'l stock. What will make it stop trying to cut above 0.0? I'm using V9 SP1 and Flowline cutterpath.

We occaisionaly need a full size line drawing print, and for years we have been using an old HP pen plotter, and the plot commands and settings in MC9 for this. It is slow and uses 8.5 x 11 paper. We want to start using an HP Deskjet 1220 cse printer for this. It's much faster and can use 13 x 19 paper. Can we plot full size line drawings fron this printer? If so what is the procedure?

It is cast and it is machining just fine. It is the extruded mat'l that has problems. Going to try flame polishing and am trying to find out more about vapor polish.

Yes, Just like Aviation! Does anyone know if this stuff taps well? If so, what taping fluid? [ 10-22-2002, 12:34 PM: Message edited by: bogusmill ]

The cuts I need to make are V shaped notches, with 45 degree walls and a small radius in the bottom, .500 deep in .825 thick mat'l. The material is not Lexan, just Plexiglass, Acrylite GP to be exact. I have a HAAS VF-4, 7500 rpm and use Stuart water based coolant, supposedly similar to Cimcool. [ 10-21-2002, 09:34 AM: Message edited by: bogusmill ]

I am about to make a box from cellcast acrylic plexiglass for a customer, that needs to be polished for visibility. Does anyone know what kinds of speeds and feeds I would have the best luck with? Is it like aluminum, steel, titanium? Also what about precautions for fumes, what about cutting fluids? Any suggestions to this would be very helpfull!

Then theres that gap thing in surface. I've had more than one part gouged when a toolpath just happened to hit one of those small gaps and plunge right into the part. Thats when I wish I had run the verify program to check for this.

I think there are some points that have not been mentioned. Every software maker wants thiers to be the one people know and use. If everyone was born knowing how to use Microsoft Office, there would have never been a Lotus or Star Office. So software makers will not be prosecuting any students with cracked software. They wouldn't be able to show a loss. They WANT more people to know thier software. At worst, they would make an individual, remove it from thier PC, but I doubt most would ever go that far. Lots of hassle for no gain. One post stated that students with hacked copies, take that to new jobs and use it. BULL, there may be some isolated cases of that, but by and large students just want to get more familiar with software at home, which is probably better equipped, PC wise than the school they are at. I've seen it, students with hacked Pro E copies around here, but when they graduate they go to businesses that already have licensed versions. THATS why they were hired, not because they brought thier own bogus software. Now with a business, loss can be proved. If the business has used the software to generate income there is a definate loss or ill gotten gain. A professor once told me that laws on software and printed material are essentially the same. You can use a copier to copy a page from a book, or the entire book and no one will care. But if you start selling the copies, or start using excerpts from it as your own work in other publications, you may find yourself in trouble real quick.

It's no wonder your video stunk. TNT2 is for games like solitare is a game. It is 5 generations back. I have an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400 64Mb and it is working just fine with MC8 and Catia V5. It is 2 generations old. I am looking to upgrade to GeForce 4 TI4200 $149 at Newegg.com. Oxygen is old too, but $99 is a decent price for it. Here are links to reviews for high end graphics cards. http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=45000267 http://www17.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q2/010615/index.html http://www17.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q1/020320/index.html

Charles Davis sent me a nice and very complete chart for my class. Thanks Charles!

I want to put it in class assignment so the students can figure out the approx. time needed to machine the parts they are designing. Thats why I need it in a copy and paste form.

Does anyone know a good web site that has a feeds and speeds chart for milling various metals? I have a wall chart, but I need it in a computer file. I have done some searching, and all I've found are sites that focus on one metal, or aren't for end mills in a 1/4" to 1" mill size.

We are buying a HAAS VF4. Have you tried the high speed machining option? We found out a call to HASS will get you a code you can enter that will enable the high speed machining option for 200 hours. Try it before you buy it type thing.

Do you remember the setting in Screen/configure about Undelete? If there wasn't a residual geometry reference to a deleted piece of geometry,then undelete would be worhtless. It's probably your undelete setting that makes the file size remain the same after you delete any geometry. If you want the file size to go down after a delete, it would help to set your undelete setting to 0.