Thanks everyone I will check Dell. I was also getting price as high as 5000.00 Canadian. I took the recommended requirement off the mastercam site to the computer store and asked for something in the middle of the requirements . So this time I will take 2000.00 dollars with me and see what I can get. Cheers

Mostly 2d Light  3d. no 5 axis and 2 axis turning. Yes Jparis Canadian dollar isn't doing well.lol

looking for a laptop to run mastercam. I may be working from home shortly. Just looking for suggestion . Downfall is I only want to spend 2000.00 Canadian , Am I wasting my time or is this possible.  
Thanks

Thank you Jparis.,

I have plate with about 100 slots in it. they are .750 wide 3 inches long. they go in a 30 deg angle .875 deep.  I have the ability to tilt my head at 30 degs . Is there a way to tell mastercam the tool is at 30 deg.

Thanks

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On 6/13/2019 at 12:09 PM, mkd said:

So? It can still be EDM'd with sinker or an EDM drilling machine. Not sure about laser.

Mikron also offers a vision system for checking tools.

Thanks for the info. Not that familiar with EDM's  . I will look into the mikron vision system. 

On 6/11/2019 at 8:11 PM, Leon82 said:

Big dashawa makes a camera touch off system. We have it on our yasda

ThanKs I will check it out.

On 6/11/2019 at 7:14 PM, mkd said:

why would you try to drill that rather than Laser or EDM

The material we are drilling is graphite.

we don't get continuity thru our speeder spindle, maybe because of ceramic bearings. And I was told a laser is bigger then the drill so it wouldn't detect a broken drill. I was trying to find a way to energize the work piece and hook a light up so when the drill touches the work piece the light goes on.  Maybe I'm not thinking straight. 

Does anyone know of a tool break monitor that will work with a 20 micron drill? I am drilling 10 pieces with 1300 hole in each piece and would like a light or something to alert me when the tool breaks. not sure if there is something like this available. 

Thanks for all the input I will check out these options.

Looking for some options on how to set the length offset on a 30 micron drill.  we have been doing it with a portable micro scope , but we are not very efficient right now , looking for a quicker option .   thanks

Thanks for all the info .  We have a company coming from Toronto to help us with this. I think it will be a big investment but hopefully it works out. 

we are running it on a brand new hurco. but that may have to change .  I know it can be done our competitor is doing now.  I will contact hurco  and see what they say.

Thanks 

I know that this exists, but not sure where to look for it.  What I want to do is energize my work piece, so when my tool comes in contact with the top of the part it automatic zeros my z axis. What our customer wants,  is to keep the hole within .0003 in depth over 540 hole  our drill dia is .020  .  the problem is the material is graphite and the top surface is not 100% flat.  Does anyone have experience with this?

awesome thats the one I was looking at. it goes to 80k. we are drilling .0015 dia. holes right now in  HURCO running 8k ,not to efficient . do you need to keep the machine isolated from the vibration of other machine in the shop?

Does anyone use a spindle multiplier?  I am looking to get up to 100000 rpm if possible.  Thanks 

47 minutes ago, Frank Caudillo said:

I'm not sure if it will work, but in your arc filter parameter page, under smoothing there is a check box for "present arcs as line segments". Any luck with that?

Yes Sir that's the one thanks allot.

9 minutes ago, Orvie Smith Toshiba said:

Disable arcs in your Control Definition.

thanks I tried that but no luck.

I found the line arc filters and they are turned off.

1 hour ago, jeff said:

Turn off filter?

not sure where to turn them off.

Good Morning

Is there a way to post all moves as linear moves with no arc moves. Im using multisurface rough toolpath. getting some arc error so i was hoping to post them as just linear moves.

Thanks

Thanks  this gives me a few more options.

Will they do them custom?

Good question I will have to check that.

Looking for another supplier to buy a 40 micron drill. osg has them but they are 320.00 per drill. all the other supplier stop at 50 micron. any other suggestions will help. Thanks. Been using harvey tool for the 50 micron holes but they don't go smaller then that.