Thanks....thought so........this $uck$ having to pick each edge......

quote: This usually ends up costing more.True dat...........Good to stay current..... LOL @ Jammer........

MC9 WOW.........

Yep Keeb...... ALT-T works

I am trying to add fillets to the slots only. Is there a way to de-select the edges after selecting the face of the solid. See picture. [ 06-02-2009, 11:18 AM: Message edited by: Columbo ]

Works fine here also.....

BTW..... welcome to the forum

Are you talking about regenerating a dirty tool path? If so, I believe it does go thru the entire simulation.

quote: What I have done without making a custome drill cycle is use G81 for the initial peck, and then G83 for the remainder of the depth. Have done this as well Rick...

I have done that the old way by creating point tool paths and then change feed at point. Never did it for deep hole peck drilling. I have done it with Kennametal drills to stat at a slower feed rat for the first .3 depth the speed up to base.

quote: As advised by another great CIRCLE member here fissed

I worked in a shop that REQUIRED ALL programmer, tool designers and methods people to work in the shop running machines for six months prior to getting to the hired position. It weeds out the BS artist real fast. I have seen many come in saying they programmed 5 axis machines. After a week they just wouldn't show up anymore. I believe every programmer/manufacturing engineer should be brought up in the shop. I don't care about a piece of paper saying you have a Bachelors degree. If you have it fine.......what about work experience. I worked right out of high school. After about 10 or 15 years went back to night school for my degree, and every job I have had since didn't require it. My employers want to get the job done now and right, no mistakes.. NUF SAID

Had an issue not long ago....... Changed the width of a groove tool in the insert page and found out the hard way that it did NOT update/change in the too clearance button in the parameters page........part scrap....

quote: Black background like old school MC.+1 gray for solid model.......break up colors mostly using the default 16 colors. (except black and gray of course)

I agree with Gcode......we have a DMU50 and had to get a new post for it....once you index the head.....probably "B" axis your X & Y axis' flip......we had a problem in the beginning but got a fairly decent post (still in the final touch ups) from in-house.......Maybe they even have an already configured post for ya....have your re-seller contact them.... Good luck..... BTW.....welcome to the forum

WOW.....original post was back in October

I believe the reverse post has not been available since version 7 or 8........ I believe NC Code Analyzer (ncca) will work for you......If you need to get a copy let me know.... This will also let you see the toolpath..........

Welcome to the forum To answer your question...... I do not believe that is possible...... You will have to change the configuration to metric and re-dimension....... That is under settings, configuration and at the bottom change "current" to metric, the OK. When asked to change the scale of the part say yes, the for entire drawing "delete all assoc. ...."

custom tool works well. We have guys here that just measure the insert and make the change accordinly in the program and forget the backplot issue

quote: Z0 has been the face of the part at finish Same here

Thanks Calvin......thought that it might be a bug.....I don't do to many lathe programs but I don't remember that issue..... Thanks

Yes Ron.....it's posting that way also..... My tool leaves off at D.7997 Z-2.380 but comes out to Z1.250 Also my retract on the first operation matches the approach of the second operation....... Never seen this before...... Here is the two operations posted N10 CLEAR N20 DEF WORK N30 PS , [0,0], [,] N40 END N50 DRAW N60 G50 S400 (ROUGH FACE BEFORE SMALL BORE) N70 G00 X30. Z80. N80 G96 S400 M03 T0505 N90 G00 X.8123 Z1.25 M08 N100 Z-2.2729 N110 G95 G01 Z-2.3729 F.006 N120 Z-2.65 N130 X.6635 N140 X.5221 Z-2.5793 N150 G00 Z-2.275 N160 X.9612 N170 G01 Z-2.375 N180 Z-2.65 N190 X.7923 N200 X.6509 Z-2.5793 N210 G00 Z-2.275 N220 X1.11 N230 G01 Z-2.375 N240 Z-2.65 N250 X.9412 N260 X.7997 Z-2.5793 N270 G00 Z-2.38 N280 Z1.25 (FINISH SMALL BORE) N310 Z-2.38 N320 X1.09 N330 G01 Z-2.48 F.016 N340 Z-2.625 N350 X.8035 N360 Z-3.08 N370 X.7328 Z-3.0446 N380 G00 Z-2.38 N390 X1.15 N400 G01 Z-2.48 N410 Z-2.655 N420 X.8635 N430 Z-3.08 N440 X.7928 Z-3.0446 N450 G00 Z1.25 N460 G00 X30. Z80. M05 N470 M02 %

I have a boring bar the I am using to rough the back wall of a bore using "ROUGH" then using the same bar to finish the bore diameters and back wall of the bore using "FINISH"..... I also have the retract set to the last move of the first operation and the approach set to the same values for the second operation. My question is "why does the boring bar come out of the hole then goes back in....I have done this in the past without any issues.....Is the problem using a rough and a finish operation for the same tool???? Thanks

We have no problem when we were using V9.....Now we are using X3 and it also is working.... When going to autocad we have to save as ver 2002 otherwise it doesn't work.