Saturday Roll Call

[crazy^millman]

Present and accounted for sir.  

[Hardmill]

Morning all
Now what to start on first   :huh:

Day job or one of 3 customers all yelling at the same time ??  


How you doing Ron ??  














PEACE

[crazy^millman]

Doing good Steve. Only 3 must be a slow day.      

[BrianP.]

Here but not there. Gave up Saturday's unless it's a dire need.

[Matthew Hajicek]

Doing a funky one-off for a new customer.

[CNCAppsJames]

Here.
Had a long week so catching up on admin stuff. A Sr. AE's job is never done.
Catching up on some CAMplete customer enhancement requests that will no doubt make it into the next release (not necessarily Build) :cough: unilke other software packages that shall remain nameless :cough:
Working on my wife's Valentines Day present on the 3D printer. Having a hell of a time with it... lots of overhangs so working on orientation. Printing with a Stainless Steel nozzle adds to the challenge. Since I print a lot of Carbon Fiber leaves me with not many options.

[Jim at Gentex]

Yep...here again.
I don't really like working Easter weekend, but time and tide wait for no man...nor do production schedules. :w00t:

[crazy^millman]

Last Bay on a 8 bay part. I have Bay 4 and the 8 Datum Faces in one Mastercam file. Had to break out the 7 bays into their own Mastercam files. Each bay is about 140 operation each. I have an average of 50 operations for each Datum Face. This last operation for this part is over 1600 operations. I had 778 operations in the ID finishing and the Bottom Finishing was about 150 operations. That is a total 25 Mastercam files taking this part from a Plus 250 to plus 120 then Plus 60, then plus 30 to finish. Yes 3 operations for each Plus state and then true up 2 operations in between them. 16 months ago I started on this beast. Not the only project I did. I did other work to keep a roof over our heads, but not getting paid for about 800 hours of work put into this 1200 hour programming effort. Today Praise the Lord I might finish it.

[Rstewart]

Last Bay on a 8 bay part. I have Bay 4 and the 8 Datum Faces in one Mastercam file. Had to break out the 7 bays into their own Mastercam files. Each bay is about 140 operation each. I have an average of 50 operations for each Datum Face. This last operation for this part is over 1600 operations. I had 778 operations in the ID finishing and the Bottom Finishing was about 150 operations. That is a total 25 Mastercam files taking this part from a Plus 250 to plus 120 then Plus 60, then plus 30 to finish. Yes 3 operations for each Plus state and then true up 2 operations in between them. 16 months ago I started on this beast. Not the only project I did. I did other work to keep a roof over our heads, but not getting paid for about 800 hours of work put into this 1200 hour programming effort. Today Praise the Lord I might finish it.

That sounds amazing and terrifying at the same time!

[Jim at Gentex]

Here again running more production parts.
Oh well, it's raining today anyway, so I might as well stay a while.  :w00t:

[Matthew Hajicek]

Wow, that's an impressive feat!

I'm doing my biggest job so far for my side business, doesn't hold a candle.  Making 38 sets of three parts all in one 9" x 10" sheet of 1/8" Ti on a vacuum plate.  19 hour program for the "A" side, I score them with a V groove between parts to snap them apart before the "B" side.  Four sheets will make the 150 pc quantity for the order.  About to cut the "B" side jaws now.

[crazy^millman]

Adding some toolpaths for bosses that left some excess material I didn't see in the 30000 faces I am cutting on this part. Need to run it through Vericut. Took care of the Books this morning got out a quote and then resting after a brutal 70 hour week driving 5 hour each day from home to the customer and back 115 miles way in So Cal Traffic.

Enjoy your weekend.

[YoDoug]

Here since 7. I'll be in and out all weekend keeping the robot cells fed.

[crazy^millman]

Present tweaking a file for a machine to run on Monday.

Dumbing down some models for Machinesim for a customer.

12 different configurations of 4 and 5 axis machines. Thinking I can build the 4 base machines and the 6 different 4 and 5 axis models and then just plug and play the models. I am also building them for CAV so I will have 2 different verification methods.

[Jim at Gentex]

Wow...
Time to kick the dust off this thread!

I am working a rare Saturday today to fill a 'last-minute' customer order before the end of the year.
Of course, it's a new part, and I just got the CAD model yesterday, and they want to ship prototypes on Monday.  

Luckily it is similar to a previous part, so the previous fixture and tooling can be used.
But it still seems like we do this kind of rush job at the end of every calendar year.  :huh:

Oh well...I'm hourly, so a little OT before Christmas is always nice!