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Thad, it was cumbersome in V9. I think Smartcam had the best toolpath editor out there. As far as I know, it is being reworked for the next maintenance release.
We are delayed by the snow buildup on the Canadian Tundra. The Inhouse Igloo is completely filled with X boxes, but until the dogsled teams can conquer the snow, we are stuck.
Allow posting to one decimal place, or to a limit of 100 lines. I requested this years ago. Students would be happy with this, and it would reduce the amount of cracked software trading hands at colleges. I agree: software that doesn't allow you to save files is useless to students, and they will opt for a cracked copy.
It is an excellent investment with advanced feature recognition capabilities in a variety of planes. It is a bargain for what it can do, including proper depths for taps and reamers when following a drill, using circlemill for certain counterboring operations, etc. etc.
Yes, they are different. Prodrill is a more advanced add-on.
Take a look at Prodrill, it is WELL worth the money! Send your file to Anbu and see if he can perform the necessary magic.
Check if the Mazak has something similar to the Heidenhain Cycle 19. If your dealer can't supply you with the right posts for the machine, try Brett at Inhouse. He will Pimp your CNC!
Before presuming the machine is a Thermwood, why don't you specify what it is? Router Pro has all the functionality of Mill L3. It is basically the same thing with some very minor differences.
DNC max is excellent and affordable. We have done many installations and I am not aware of any customer problems. It supports a wide variety of protocols (including many conversational formats like Mazatrol) and is extremely reliable.
Toolpath/next menu/circle toolpaths/threadmill
No need to draw in the thread or even to define the custom tool. Input the number of teeth on the insert and you are done.
Did you map it to feed instead of rapid? It is possible that your machine is doing 45 degree "dogleg" moves during angular G00 commands
try mapping to feed (i.e. 600 ipm) and see if it helps.
Verify would not catch those types of crashes, since they are machine specific, rather than being bad G-code
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