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jwvt88

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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.
  16. Every time I click on this button, MC crashes. Solutions? I tried restarting, opening new screen, just dummy program a single drill point to get around it and can't.
  17. For that post, we just have the normal "Tap" cycle, which we have already edited above to have the I and J. We also have a "Rigid Tapping Cycle" which has this: pmisc2$ #Canned Rigid Tapping Cycle pdrlcommonb #RH/LH based on spindle direction pbld, n$, sg95, e$ pbld, n$, sm29, *speed, e$ if met_tool$, pitch = n_tap_thds$ #Tap pitch (mm per thread) else, pitch = 1/n_tap_thds$ #Tap pitch (inches per thread) pcan1, pbld, n$, *sgdrlref, *sgdrill, pxout, pyout, pfzout, pcout, prdrlout, *pitch, !feed, strcantext, e$ pcom_movea So we always use the "Tap" cycle, and just fill in the pitch after I or J and delete the other. What we want it to do is just post out J=13 for 1/2-13 or I=1 for M6x1.... I would guess part of the problem is using a Fanuc post for a Brother control.. but everything else seems to work fine minus the tapping. But if we just aren't filling in a parameter correctly, that is definitely a possibility. My coworker has been working to fix all of our posts so he knows more than I do, but neither of us are experts. All of our other posts are now configured properly but we haven't been able to figure this one out.
  18. Thanks for the reply. Hmm well it's not really "wrong" but we would like to not have to fill in the J or I every time. Here's the canned tap cycle in the post: ptap$ #Canned Tap Cycle pdrlcommonb result = newfs(17, feed) # Set for tapping Feedrate format pcan1, pbld, n$, *sgdrlref, *sgdrill, pxout, pyout, pfzout, pcout, prdrlout, "J=IMPERIAL I=METRIC", strcantext, e$ pcom_movea As far as I can tell there's not any misc drill parameters being used. We're kind of trying to use/edit what they've been using for years before we were here, so they likely edited things in the past.
  19. Hey guys, We are currently using a generic Fanuc 4x mill post for our Brother machines. Currently it is setup to put out both an I and a J when we use a tap and we need to hand edit every time we post anything with a tap which we are trying to get away from. Here's an example of a posted program: N110 T11 G100 G0 G90 G54 X-1.3225 Y-.0214 A0. S4000 M3 ( 1/4-20 TAPRH +.003 ) N120 G43 H11 D11 Z7. M8 N130 M400 N140 M406 N150 G98 G77 Z3.93 R4.8381 J=IMP,PITCH? I=MET,PITCH? N160 X1.3225 F200. N170 G80 N180 M9 N190 G91 G28 Z0. A0. N200 G49 N210 T11 M6 N220 M98P7999 N230 M30 We aren't really sure where to start, whether the post, machine definition, control definition or tool definition. Hopefully not something too difficult to fix for a novice post editor like myself. TIA
  20. Yeah, agreed that it isn't new. Most companies keep it up to date. Semi-understandable to want to get the full amount given the years of use minus maintenance. However, if I started at a company with MC, and they were out of maintenance but ready to renew and received a quote for it wanting us to pay for previous years, I would vote to forego the software and switch entirely. Not because of the policy, but because I'm both more familiar with other softwares and also believe their customer service and quality is better and more polished. The few things I would miss from MC are things I can live without for the features I would gain elsewhere. But, to each their own, other softwares do the same thing and I'm sure they gain people the same way.
  21. Multiaxis roughing is perfect for this application if you're using 5 axis.
  22. Yeah, you had 3 posts today so you probably can't reply again. I'd have to see what you're really trying to do to come up with a best solution answer. Possible and practical are definitely different. Shouldn't need to cut jaws for every part ran, but I guess I'm used to producing thousands to millions of the same parts. If one of the primary reasons is the setup sheets, I would suggest standardizing a few tools in every machine for jaws. You could also program them within the same toolpath group, and ghost them out afterwards. I'm using a setup sheet that can be found here on the forums(something like In-House Tool List might be able to find it), it's pretty nice as well. You could combine tools to the same list, they would just be under a separate NCI listing.
  23. I've had this happen before and it was the "lock feedrates" check box. I couldn't remember to reply.
  24. Yeah, issues like this aren't exclusive to MC. What file types are you working with?
  25. I just opened up this file I had been working on previously over the last month. Suddenly I have this new "handshake" symbol I've never seen. Also, stock setup shouldn't be ghosted and dirty. Did I do something to cause this? Nothing I change in stock setup seems to fix it. (it's an 295 inch long aluminum extrusion, not something we even use stock for), and how did it become ghosted?

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