When you are in the settings customize box, click toolbar states, pick yours tick the box that says default, if you change your toolbars remember to go back in the states and save changes. remember to if you shrink your mcam screen then enlarge again the bar will be scrambled and need to reload it, I have a hunch this will not be a problem in the future.

the doosan's are not bad at all, step up from HAAS and FADAL at a good price!

you will not be dissapointed!

you are right I will chime in, the mazak has many parameter settings and you can set it just like any other machine for tool length! I think positive numbers are what you should use but not to ht ejack in the box but the actual gauge length.

many shops are using presetters these days (FINALY) if its in a horizontal then you mostly program center rotation or (including verticals) you probe your work offset, or edge find and have a known length tool to set Z.

in the mazak and many of the new machines and some old you can calc your z offset through the control instead of doing the math (where many mistakes are made)

Dont just accept the way your machine acts out of the box they can be changed to do many things.

Jim it is in your op manager

make a machine group

click on the plus sign on the properties tab

then click on the tool settings tab

then upper right of that page

toolpath configuration

check the use tools step peck coolant button

whats the 4th character in your part number should be a letter?

i dont think so, all ours are .model

do your tools have the coolant active?

you could say use tools step peck and coolant.

Don't transform the ops

just a tip for future purchase, make them do a run off to your specs, we use to have to do it all the time to prove process capability. Not all customers requested that but we did many on the intergrex for optics folks!

Ed I think all the name brands are good quality, Mori, Okuma, Mazak, Mattsura, Nigatta, DMG, but I still think Makino, is a step above maybe not in all aspects but they are a great machine tool

the parameters in the machine will have to be set, baud parity etc cable is the same as our moris with fanuc controls

maybe don't assign the offset number to more then 1 view

I use to have a post that supported subprograms pretty well, I am sure in house has something along those lines

hpi nikken, HPI imported the nikken. But lyndex owns nikken now. They are great tools!

got a picture?

You can help your HAAS a bit with better tool holders.

Nikken has endmill chucks with split tapers that face contact your spindle and a better fit in your spindle, some tools require less pressure with the same feed. I wouldnt recomend getting to wild with your HAAS but you can do some things to help it.

MLS it really isnt that hard to create your 2 lines for surface finish blend.

create curve on edge for the top and bottom edge then offset them half the cutter and your ready to go.

use surface blend

hey is your email adress not correct on here it just got kicked back

the bye tool or bye order has to be clicked in the translate op. then you rotate the translate op.

is you r translate op working correctly before you rotate the translate op?

there is a click box for translate by tool or ops did you try that?

Eric we have quintax and cincinati

the quintax column is just so wimpy.

there is a new router out craneu I am not sure on the spelling but they have pretty nice machines that are alot more rigid

Drag racer you want a MAKINO!