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  1. Good morning, I came across an excellent application for one of these tools today in a part we run hundreds of thousands of per year. https://www.instagram.com/p/CkUvZIBJ1IH/?img_index=1 Is anyone using these? If so are you just using a threadmill cycle or are you using a custom drill cycle? None of us here have used the custom drill cycles before and I can't seem to find a tutorial online for a threadmill type of application. Any ideas or experience you've had with these or the guhring type(or any other types)? Thanks
  2. Does anyone start with level 2,000,000,000 just to annoy fellow programmers?
  3. Same issue, seems like a bug. It will be working then suddenly not working. Close and restart MC and then they work again. My coworkers haven't complained about it yet though, so I just assume its only because I typically work with the largest files.
  4. No, but I have accidently overwritten it using a function I thought would add tools into my selected library, perhaps this is happening. Is this happening after 2022?
  5. My recommendation from when I ran Tebis for a couple of years, just have the company get you a laptop to run it at home, with a docking station for at work. I had a good laptop, cameras in my mills, and I could do everything from home if necessary aside from setups. If they can afford Tebis, they can afford setting you up like that. (I'm definitely a Tebis fanboy).
  6. Probably pretty close. Likely 1.1m vs 1.2m, but maybe the footprint or number of employees required is a deciding factor.
  7. Thanks for the replies guys. Machine should be delivered this week I believe. Yes, very high production on a part this company has been machining for years, production is ramping up significantly. This is supposed to reduce our cycle time from 50 seconds on a Brother, to 14 seconds. Will be changed by robotically.
  8. Boss ordered a new machine today. https://www.porta-solutions.com/en/portacenter-machines/ New to us, just wondering if anyone has any experience with this or what to expect with it? I personally ran a Parpas XS63 for a few years, and had 3 Parpas machines at another company, loved the machines but weren't very reliable. Heard that was Italian machines in general, but just curious.
  9. File > Configuration > Expand(+) Files > AutoSave/Backup
  10. Mine will do this occasionally if the line(contour) is an awkward shape. It just won't do it or it will offset 3/4 of it but not part going into a corner. Very frustrating. Sometimes if I change the distance from like .1 to .999 or 1.001 it will fix it, sometimes not. Good thing there's always another way to achieve the goal. Edit: Also, if the chain is "3D" it can effect this, need to project them flat, or draw them in 2D, helps resolve issues.
  11. Can't say it's entirely responsible for the problems you're experiencing, but yes it is outdated. 2600k is 9 years old.(2nd gen i7, 10th gen just came out). k4200 is 6 years old.
  12. Unfortunately, I don't have much of a choice, my hands are tied. My company isn't willing to put money into things like that. I've been pushing CAV hard for the last year and it hasn't gotten me anywhere. We're still swapping hasps between users for 5x key. Can't get productivity+. Attempting to standardize tooling is nearly a lost cause. They tell us it's our area and we can do what we want - I guess that's true provided it doesn't cost any money. This is better than flying by the seat of our pants, like when I started. Post a 6 hour program for a Variaxis, using a post not made for a Variaxis, and have the operator come in 10 times hitting soft limits.
  13. This morning I realized there is a VMC DMU built into MC. The numbers are the same though. .707107 Already had my base rotation point figured out. put these in and it works fine.
  14. Hey guys, have a new machine supposed to be coming in a few months. Makino a500z. Trying to get ahead on the simulation on it, and get ahead on switching up some programs from vertical 5x machine to the horizontal, and make sure everything works appropriately. However, I can't quite figure out how to get the B axis to rotate as such in the photo. Haven't come across a informational video on youtube to help either. Anyone have experience in MC with this yet?
  15. I tried a multitude of things to fix it. I had an actual file open to sim, so i closed that, and opened a new MC, created just a drill point program, crashed Created just simple contour, crashed. went to my machsim folder and moved all of my created machines to the desktop. crashed. went to the hidden local temp folder and crashdumps folder(MC closed), deleted everything, crashed. reverted to the prior version of windows that updated yesterday, success, now it works.

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