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you can gram a mazak lathe way way faster with mazatrol than you can with mcam. not a slam, just fact
just be sure to correctly "to the tee" describe any 55' of 35' tools or it'll do a weird little jig for you.
oddly, I like the V9 converter better. It was quicker and something I did brought the axis into the wcs mgr in V9 and not in X. Pete R. fixed the scaling for me on the stl issue a week or so ago. The fix BTW is on the ftp for all to get when Jay gets all the damn hackers off it. It will work with X2.
Colin,
It seems the most important step I was missing
was the plane creation. I followed your steps and problem solved. I follow two measly lines and got all twisted without creating a plane/new view and got twisted.
thanks again,
had a hard time finding John's posting on this issue try his fix, sorry I took so long. John is probably tired of repeating this.
I have disabled the Front End Buffer
He's running a 1300 and not a 1100 but give it a try.
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Hey King, have you had a run in with Hu Flung on the CNCzone before? don't know him, but this guy seems to be related to him. over the years I've seen trolls come and go. they'll go away and then others will follow.
on the one I programmed and ran it was B. It didn't have the "five axis" type servo, it was just position and lock in place. I don't know if
that makes a difference.
That's actually not a bad suggestion Thad. I am rotating out of "air-plane" coordinates so their are situations were it could work and some it won't. I'll try first opportunity.
Bryan,
yeah I was trying to rotate out of one plane
and in to another, but I had indicated the wrong end of one line so it spun it 180 for me in addition to what I wanted. I'm still trying to
perfect this routine this morning.
I'd still like to see the preview axis to get an
idea if I'm going in the right direction.
I just tried again, I copy pasted your addy so hopefully it will work this time. Problem is probably on my end, we have had some issues with
mail lately.
I got it figured out. I wasn't as careful as I thought. It would be nice however, if the preview axis was shown like it was in v9 and aswell in X when you pick geometry to create a new wcs.
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