Circle segment end mills

[TSmcam]

Mori NH4000 Fanuc 31i

Ah, nice. Is the post and machine dialled for that?

[neurosis]

Ah, nice. Is the post and machine dialled for that?

The last thing we did before we dropped maintenance on TS was make sure that the post and machine def was dialed in. It took a year to get it done but that wasn't long after Kyle quit. Kyle did all of the original work on the post and machine def so it took Bill a while to get it sorted out.

Everything worked great prior to updating TS to 7.15 Not sure why, but that software update broke some things.

[TSmcam]

The last thing we did before we dropped maintenance on TS was make sure that the post and machine def was dialed in. It took a year to get it done but that wasn't long after Kyle quit. Kyle did all of the original work on the post and machine def so it took Bill a while to get it sorted out.

Everything worked great prior to updating TS to 7.15 Not sure why, but that software update broke some things.

Hmmm, I'd be interested to know what got broken. Send me an email

[neurosis]

Hmmm, I'd be interested to know what got broken. Send me an email

I can't remember. It was a long time ago.  I may still have some old emails around from back when I was trying to get it sorted out, but this is getting close to 5 years ago at this point.

I think that part of the problem was that Kyle used a lot of C#(?) in his posts and Bill wanted to get rid of anything done unnecessarily in C#. I got the impression that he wasn't as good with it as Kyle? That's just an assumption.

   

[JParis]

Gee, if only some CAM company had an open source post that you didn't need any help to dial in if you knew what you were doing

[TSmcam]

Gee, if only some CAM company had an open source post that you didn't need any help to dial in if you knew what you were doing

Gee, if only some CAM company had a fully functional Mill/Turn solution, with an open source post..... 

[JParis]

Gee, if only some CAM company had a fully functional Mill/Turn solution, with an open source post..... 

Touche'

[TSmcam]

I can't remember. It was a long time ago.  I may still have some old emails around from back when I was trying to get it sorted out, but this is getting close to 5 years ago at this point.

I think that part of the problem was that Kyle used a lot of C#(?) in his posts and Bill wanted to get rid of anything done unnecessarily in C#. I got the impression that he wasn't as good with it as Kyle? That's just an assumption.

 

C# gives a whole other level of customisation, and function. But, it is rarely needed. I have one for an Okuma Multus, that was a workaround for controlling twin tools (not needed now as the function is within the software, and post at the ini level), and another for a customer that required some custom macro functions for controlling tapers in turning with Renishaw cycles (which works extremely well).

Your NH1000 shouldn't need C#. I've done a ton of horizontal and vmc posts and none of them have required it, and I am currently working on our Okuma MA600-HIII, that even supports Turn Cut and Flat Grooving without C#. Vericut doesn't even support Flat Grooving yet, I have the Vericut applications people looking at it at the moment

[neurosis]

Gee, if only some CAM company had an open source post that you didn't need any help to dial in if you knew what you were doing

This was why we dropped maintenance on TS. I tried to get them to work with us on pricing for the post editor. This is just my opinion, but what they charge for the ability to edit your own posts is ridiculous. I sorta get it. The machine definitions aren't very intuitive. Part of purchasing the post editor module is training requirements. Or at least it was back then.

[neurosis]

Your NH1000 shouldn't need C#. I've done a ton of horizontal and vmc posts and none of them have required it,

That's what Bill told me. It made post modification more of a pain in the ass for him, and it was just unnecessary.

[MIL-TFP-41]

We don't have a 5 axis machine at our shop. We just have the KME 4 platter tombstone for our horizontal so we're limited to 3 + 2. X4?   

I'm posting this as a little dig at MC. We still can't program that thing efficiently with MC.   I have to use TS. Especially if I hope to simulate anything. 

That was my TS plug for the month. 

We program ours just fine with Mastercam. Took a little bit of back & forth with Postability but we got there. As long as the 4 parts are identical, programming it is only slightly more cumbersome than programming a single part. Just use a lot of transform operations.

Simulation is limited to Mastercam's version, but that is infinitely better than nothing.

[neurosis]

We program ours just fine with Mastercam.

Which version of the KME do you have?

When I asked questions about this it was probably close to a decade ago.

I have no doubt that I could program the thing using Mastercam, but, and you could blame it on me, it's so much easier using TopSolid. The plane creation is automatic. The simulation is perfect.

[CNCAppsJames]

Gee, if only some CAM company had a fully functional Mill/Turn solution, with an open source post..... 

#ShotsFired

 

[TSmcam]

#ShotsFired

Did Titan say boom? #boom... no wait, that was the Iranian targets

[MIL-TFP-41]

Which version of the KME do you have?

4 total platters, 2 on front & 2 on back.