Heavy,

I could be wrong, I looked all over the net for info and couldn't find anything, but.... just wondering... We get a lot of our forgings from a place in Chicago call Finkel Forgings, could this be the company the material came from and not the material itself? Just a shot in the dark, sorry if I am wrong.

Greg

I don't know how many of you did this when growing up, or have kids of your own doing it now, but this one tough sport. This local kids high school career ended last night on an unbelievable note and just wanted to share. One month ago he broke the national record. Talk about skill and determination....

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Greg

Isn't that Tonto "Bubba" Bernstein there Bucky? I never forget a good joke

Yours truly,

Albert Schlempecker a.k.a. wyfs2fat - sorry couldn't resist

Have a safe and wonderful trip, the time off is well deserved.

Just the wife's camper she had to have and the house. Been busting our butts for 5-1/2 years to get out of credit card debt. Went to the bank and paid off the truck and the last credit card 2 days ago. Her check covers the bills except for $40 a week from me. Now if I get mad here, there is always "Would you like an apple pie with that?" What a relief, to be debt free..

Greg

Sounds like I might be one of the lucky ones in here. All of the people running my programs are journeyman machinists. On day shift, the person with the least amount of time here is 9 years, the most 19. On the off shifts there is 6 minimum to 15 maximum years here. Everyone has been through a 4 year apprenticeship, and they all can read and write there own programs efficiently. I only program 5 horizontal bar mills and I never look at what it posts out anymore unless I am having a problem getting mastercam to do what I want, then I look at the program so I can figure out what I am doing wrong in mastercam. We have all our posts dialed in perfectly for each machine, so I never even look at the program anymore when I post it if it looks good in backplot and verify. The hardest part is getting them a detailed description of set ups so they don't hit clamps, the tables etc.

We also have the first 22 tools set up in each machine identical, with all the feeds and speeds agreed upon by all of us. 99% of what we cut is all 4140 ht, dcf material so that helps too.

The 2 things that bothers me the most is the damn foreman saying it's a cam program, hit the button and walk away. They expect it to be perfect because the program was made by a computer with no regards as to the moron (me) telling the computer what to do. And the second is the guy that has been here the longest saying "All I have to do is hit the button and walk away". He acts like he is a minmum wage operator when he is probably the highest paid machinist in the shop. It just pi$$es me off to no end.

Sorry abount that rant, but I feel better now.

Greg

CamFun,

I downloaded your post and tried it and have the same problem as you did. You could ask your reseller to get the MPmaster post off of this site, it works beautiful. Sorry, not much help. I'd be the blind guy trying to show the guy with 20/20 vision how to cross the street.

Greg

CamFun,

From the main menu > toolpaths > job setup, under toolpath configuration, do you have the output operation comments to NCI box checked?

Greg

cnc machine anyone is using mastercam to program?

With the recent activities bashing the early 80's machines, I am kind of curious. One of the machines I program is a 1967 Giddings & Lewis, 4-1/2" horizontal bar mill. It was retrofitted in house with a conversational control, "big block" DC drive motors, turcite (sp) on the ways and it is one of the most reliable machines here and pretty accurate too. It's also got a 63 tool toolchanger that moves with the head. It's 1 of like 13 made too I think. That's were I try to send any job that needs a lot of material removed. It'll take a .300" depth of cut with a 5" face mill at 30 IPM all day long. Any one else?

Greg

We officially have 1 person leading both the Busch and Cup series. Jr is by far the next king of the draft.

DALETONA......'Nuff said

And they are off !!!! Nothing swetter than 43 cars 3 seconds apart at 190 mph.

Mastercam is pretty slick, been 1 year to date since I got out of class at Cad Camtech. Chris taught me a ton, but I bet I still after a year have barely scratched the surface of mastercam. As far as messing up job, I haven't scrapped one yet (knock on wood), but I have some excellent machinists watching over my programs.

A good 6-8 months for me.

I definitley wouldn't say great first off, (mediocre is more like it),

but this forum is a huge asset when it comes to learning MC. I have read every post top to bottom and wouldn't hesitate to do it 10 more times. This place and your reseller are invaluable for learning. They say you learn something new each day.... well MC has turned it into learning 20 new things each day.

Best of luck to you in the MC world

Greg

This isn't exactly mastercam related, but I learned this trick from an old timer. Drill the reamed hole undersize by say 1/64". Take a new drill and at the lips of the drill, grind it negative, put maybe a .005 - .010" radius on the drill. (sort of like a bullnose cutter). Hone it, so it is dull, then use that as your ream. It works sweet for me. I have always heard that drilling is the fastest way to remove material, and this tip I learned works pretty good in most cases. Just passing on an old timers trick....

Greg

Iskander,

In my temp folder it shows 637 files at 85.4 mb. Been using... ok trying to learn Mcam for 1 year now. Will I delete them? Nope, I am as computer illiterate as they come, I was just letting you know what was in mine.

Greg

Just a stab in the dark here, but did you download and install Design Assistant 8 also? We downloaded and installed everything and our engineers are using Inventor8 and they translate in with now problem. That patch is called DesignTracker8.zip and it is 33 mb's.

HTH

Greg

Congrats to Dan Schnars at RYR (sorry if I spelled it wrong). What a race!!!!!! Woohoo!!!

Life is finally back to normal.

From the main menu > file > converters > autodesk > read file and when the pop up box appears for files of type, choose .ipt extension. You should be able to see it and convert it no problem. Or if it is an .iam (assembly) you need all the .ipt's for this to convert and open.

HTH

Greg

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LOL, 19 more days and counting, but isn't it Daletona?

Greg

Thank god for mastercam or that would be my ugly mugshot. They are pulling it off the machine to flip over right now. Could get exciting

Just for comparison each of those blue tables to the right of the person is 72" x 72" x 28".

Did i mention how much I miss running that machine?

Greg

Not real sure of your question hammer, but I program 5 of them with MC all day long. Could you be more specific on what you want to know?

Greg

Thanks for the replys so far. I am talking about roughing an area 8" x 7" x 12" deep. My problems are arising from the depths I have to cut. I am used to a 5" face mill 1/4" depth of cuts. This won't happen at these depths. I am looking for any ideas thrown out there, especially pertaining to big depths with long tools.

Thanks,

Greg

Hi all,

I uploaded a file into the FTP, in the Mc9 folder. It is called 446917-A.MC9. It is a fairly large part that is going to be made out of a solid piece of steel. Due to the time constraints, we don't have time to get a casting, but if 1 of our vendors can burn 2' thick it will come as a burnout. The stock size is 45" x 16" x 24". It is the bottom half of a bearing block. I believe the material is A36 steel. We are to make 2 of them. (2 bottoms and 2 caps).

The particular area of concern for me is the area where this gets bolted down at (by the rib). I am looking for different ideas to learn for roughing to improve things over here, not necessarily the programming, but the tooling that would remove the most cubic feet of material in the shortest time given the depths involved of the tooling to machine this. I am looking for any ideas for how to do this quickly and efficiently.

This part will be made on one of our horizontals with a rotary table and the option of finishing the half bore and faces there, or moving it to a VTL. We also have to make the cap for this part, but the bore is 1" in diameter smaller, and because of the bore centerlines cannot be be bolted together and bored. The tops can, but not the bottoms. Any ideas on this?

1) I am interested in what type of cutters would work that you folks are getting the most materail removal with. (speeds, feeds, length of cut being the biggest issue, etc)

2) In what way would you go about approaching roughing this out? (what set ups, how many, etc)

Anyone that has time to take a look and offer any ideas, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Greg

Congratulations to you and your family Millman on a beautiful new addition to this world

Well if I did this right, this will be a picture of our floor bar as it was getting installed 2 years ago.

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I hear ya Mayday, I am the exact opposite and would be the same way if I had to do it for a Fanuc control. We have 2 controls where the set up has to be positive, 2 that the set up has to be negative, and 2 that the set up can be positive or negative. Kinda goofy if you ask me.

It was a real big benefit for tweaking in our posts knowing the language as I do. I don't even look at the programs anymore, I just post it and it's good to go. It makes me have a HUGE appreciation to all post writers by knowing how to write the post and then also knowing the different languages. Pretty amazing to me.

Greg