Has anyone else experienced trouble controlling where a copied operation pastes itself? I move the red insertion arrow to a location, select operation-1 with the LMB, click the selected op with RMB, click copy, move mouse next to red insertion arrow justunder op3, click RMB paste. The new operation places itself as op4 (good). Now move the red insertion arrow just under op6, copy op4, paste next to red arrow and the new op comes up as op 6 instead of op7. It doesn't seem to be consistent where it pastes the op. This procedure works fine for me in X2/MR2/SP1 but not in X3/MU1.

Welcome to the forum. This question can best be handled by your Mastercam reseller in your area.

The material library speed and feed calculations work but like all other softwares I have used it is only a rough starting point. It is just something to get a guy who knows nothing about speeds and feeds up and running. The values still need to be tweaked in my opinion. The formulas for the calculations can also be adjusted more to your liking if you have hours and hours to experiment.

Just open mastercam and the mcx file then do a "save as", using the drop down menu to change it to your desired file type.

Well its been two weeks now since I heard from my "old friend". Apparently it wasn't as important as he made me believe. To those who have contacted me I can only assume that he is no longer interested. Sorry to have wasted your time.

I used quite a bit of Dorian CNC knurling tools. They are pretty good and reasonably priced. We would knurl thousands of stainless steel parts with these tools. I have even knurled titanium with the same tools.

I never had the translator to open native Pro-E files. I always had my customers send me step files. This always worked well for me for the past few years. I tried iges a few times but it seems like more work for some reason.

What is the machine model and control model?

Thanks guys I will check out your suggestions this week.

I got a call from an old friend today. He wanted to know if I knew any contract programmers familiar with a Kuraki KBT-15. Told him I didn't know any personally but I might know where to find some. I don't have any details and don't even know where the machine is located. He sells used machinery so the machine could be anywhere in the USA. If you are interested just post in this thread and I will send him a link to this post. He can then contact you through your forum email link. I am not interested in getting anything out of this. You can work out the details with him directly.

In regards to bar feed work, how do you guys move the sub spindle over the part, clamp, cutoff, then return the sub to home for machining 2nd operation? I am trying to use the X2 mplmaster that I downloaded from this web site. This would be for a Mazak/Mori/Miyano with one upper turret, a main spindle, and a sub spindle. Do you use the stock transfer operation or several misc chuck operations?

The new home built for just under $1000 = 4min 15sec Intel E8400 3.0 GHz 6Mb L2 cache Asus P5Q-Pro motherboard 4 Gb DDR2-800 EVGA e-Geforce 9800 GTX (512 Mb) Seagate 250 Mb 7200 RPM Tuniq 120 cpu cooler Overclocked to 3.6 GHz Bus speed 405/FSB 1620 - 34C under load.

If the 2 sets of holes are in two different operations and the clearance option is not used then it will make X Y and Z motions simultaneously on one line of g-code. This could obviously cause a crash. If you use "clearance" "only at start and end" of both operations it will make the Z move first and then XY.

Put in my new heat sink and fan last night. It is an Arctic Freezer Pro 7. It reduced my temps by 4C on idle and 10C while loaded. The directions for installation aren't so good so I am posting more realistic directions for our members: 1. remove old heat sink & fan. 2. Clean thermal paste off of CPU. 3. apply fresh thermal paste to CPU 4. Insert heat sink so the four plastic lock pins are in the mounting holes on the mother board. 5. press down on locking pins in opposite corner until they "click". 6. One of them for sure won't click and you will either break or bend the little plastic expander. 7. Remove heat sink, fix or replace plastic pin. 8. Repeat steps 2 through 5. Now your pins should be locked. 9. Apply band-aid to cut finger. 10. Now take a closer look at the heat sink. You were so diligent with making sure you didn't F-up the pins you have mounted the heat sink in the wrong orientation and the fan won't fit. 11. Remove the heat sink and repeat steps 2 through 5 again 12. Apply another band-aid, this time to a different finger. 13.Mount the fan while shaking your head in a side to side fashion in dis-belief over the previous steps. 14. Re-assemble the rest of the computer 15. Clean up blood trails and your good to go!

If you are trying to get Mastercam to default to a certain machine you can do it from settings/configuration/default machines, and settings/configuration/start-exit, startup product

The operation defaults screen always shows 5-axis. It is this way on all 9 of my classroom computers. I don't know why, but it is normal. This is not the place to change to a different machine def or control def. Use "machine type" from the main menu to choose a machine. Or if a machine is already in the operations manager you can use properties/files/replace to switch to a different machine.

Just tried it at 400 X 8 = 3.2 Ghz and 800 MHz for the memory. Benchmarked in 5 min 35 secs at a temp of 50/63C. What about my Northbridge temp? I don't see a way to monitor that from my BIOS.

quote: However, if you choose to try to bump your FSB to 400, keep your multiplier at 8x's and you can then run your memory at he full 800 mHz speed. That would give you an effective 3.2 Ghz. This is what I am going to try for.

JP, you have enough fans in that thing to make hurricane Katrina seem like just another windy day! This is my home system. Did the whole rig for $680 from Newegg(No OS)back in April. Nothing too fancy/expensive. It has some potential for upgrading. Cooler Master Centurion 5 case (1) 80mm front fan (1) 120mm rear fan Antec Earthwatts 500w PS Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L MB Intel C2D E6750 2.66 GHz (2) 1Gb sticks of Kingston KHX6400D2LLK2 (1)MSI 8600GT video card (1)WD 320G/16M/SATA2 I'll probably just do a good cpu cooler and overclock for now. I have always wanted to jump into a quadrro but the fact is this little 8600GT for $85 has been working out fine for my current Mastercam needs in the home/office.

I checked out that Tom's hardware site. The Intel max temp spec is 72C, so its right near the top end at 68. I knew it would be high with the stock Intel cooler even though I used the Arctic Silver compound. Thats why I only went with 3.00 GHz to try it. I would like to get it up to 3.2 or 3.4 if I can keep it stable. I have a good Cooler Master Centurion case with 2 fans and a place for a 3rd fan. Going to neweggs site next for another case fan and CPU fan/heatsink.

Played around with overclocking for the first time ever today. Using the stock Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66 Ghz CPU (333 X 8)and stock cooler. With no overclocking X2 ran in 6 min 25 secs. X3 ran it in 6 min 30 secs. Overclocked it mildly to 3.00 GHz (375 X 8)and X3 ran it in 5 min 55 secs My usual temp without ocing is around 38C idle, and 52 under load. With ocing it was 48 and 68. I set it back to stock settings until I can get a high performance fan/heatsink. Since I am new to overclocking what temp should I be trying to avoid?

Because of that depth I would finish it with a good quality boring bar head (IMO). We had some nice .0002 increment Parlec and Komet heads. If it wasn't that deep I would try to circle mill it.

quote: I am writing a drill macro for my Fanuc lathes. SFM will be one of the variables in my G65 call if I can read the spindle speed into a variable. Its been a few years since I wrote a macro so I might not be on target here but if you need to read in the current spindle RPM you will need to know which system variable to use. Look in the Macro section of the Fanuc manual that came with the machine. But why do need to read the current RPM if you are just going to use SFM in the G65 line? Couldn't you store the result of the RPM calculation in any open variable and just call it in the macro sub as S#__M03?

1/4-19 is either BSP or BSPT. Use 29/64 (11.8mm) drill for BSP. Use 7/16 (11.2mm)drill for BSPT

With only mastercam running I went from 1 GB to 3GB of ram and the benchmark test was not any faster.