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cncappsjames

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  1. Pretty much none. "Maybe" CNC Ad Zone is older. All the rest came afterwards AFAIK.
  2. Same here. On a 386 with a seperate math co-processor and dual floppy disk drives and 2MB of RAM IIRC even. 2D swept, Coons are both toolpaths that produce CLEAN tool motion and I use them still.
  3. Wow! Digging up a post from WAY back in the day.
  4. And some of them are emotional.
  5. As usual, there's A LOT more to that story... Like hack spindle rebuilds for starters, then customers going from cold spindle to 20k with no warmup, using sidelock holders at 20k... etc. Those were the lions share of events I saw. Once you get above 18k RPM, a lot of things change and what worked at 10k, 12k, or even 15k doesn't fly at over around 18k.
  6. I'm partial to this solution. I wrote this solution here back in 2004 and it still stands to this day. Easy prazy, lemon squeezy. Though with the 30i Series, you can use file names up to 32 alphanumeric characters (DOS rules apply for file names). This is a long topic but a good read nevertheless. "Tape" mode... I NEVER use it. There are better options available.
  7. Can you post a picture of the operator panel and display?
  8. Is this for production? There's A LOT of expense to make .0005" True Position. To reiterate; climate controlled room, coolant temperature management, aggressive chip evacuation capabilities, probing, and all the control options. Something else to consider, you're going to need serious Applications Engineering support. If it were me, I would make the builders run a test part.
  9. On a table/table kinematic machine using Type 1 G68.2 (IIRC) the I, J, and K values are as follows; I = Rotation angle around Primary Z J = Rotation angle around Primary X K = Rotation angle around New Z There are like 6 types. All variants of Roll, Pitch, and Yaw.

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