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Mastercam Viewsheets
I'll answer my own question... of course it is. : ( If you knock the cord height for shading down it improves... yet another of hundreds of workarounds needed to use Mastercam "properly". Then you...
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What Wrong With Mastercam Solids?
Mastercam Solids is built on top of an obsolete database / file structure / wireframe and surfacing kernel. Mastercam Solids has seen very little work done to it in over ten years. Mastercam Solids...
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Biggest Issue I Have With Mastercam:
File specific instability problems! Corrupt machining operations that have to be deleted. Going from shaded model to wireframe display starts taking 30 minutes. Solids won't transform and crash...
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Learn about the PLC in your CNC
just a presentation, real-world, hands-on with actual PLCs, learn only = what you will actually use to save your time (more useful knowledge in less= time). But the greatest differentiator of this PLC...
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Product liability musings, caveat emptor....
Awl -- Clearly the days of pure caveat emptor (buyer beware) are gone. But are they coming back, to some extent? Proper warnings/labeling/instruction does count ito being held harmless (to some...
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I haven't been on this NG for years
It seems to have gone to hell. PLC programming anyone? I'd like to change trades and work in that field. The company that I work for only hires University grads to do their PLC programming. I've been...
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11 years ago
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Bridgeport ROMI ez path
I have a problem that looks like I blew a fuze or breaker. Does anyone have a schematic or electrical diagram?
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12 years ago
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Y axis limit switch died
YCI Supermax Rebel 1. Got it running by switching the two switches inside the housing, now I have no overtravel switch. New switch just arrived so I can fix it for real today. Failure was on Tuesday...
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12 years ago
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on topic- Costing in small machine shops
Hello gentlemen, I'm kind of new to this group,and while I notice a lot of non machining talk I'm hoping to get a bit of help. A little back history may help, I have been machining for 30 plus years,...
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12 years ago
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House booster pump as coolant pump??
Such as: 3/4 hp Graymills coolant pump, typical in cnc, is almost $500, and puts out 30-35 psi. The HF pump, judging from the total headlift, might be as much as 150 psi (zero flow), and proly 60-90...
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Plotter but noCAD software, help needed.
Got a Designmate 3036 pen plotter, works, free (1993 model). Came with Windows 907 driver disc (probably for win 3.1)???? Lots of good pens. Got XP. Got no HPGL/2 CAD software or XP driver....
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12 years ago
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Couple of Things From Machine Design
What's hot in CAD: article appears under the above article: "The best way to learn 3D modeling? Don?t focus on the software" Steve
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12 years ago
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Need Cad\Cam package
Ok I need to buy a complete camcad package. I prototype with a small 4axis HAAS mill, a small HAAS lathe, and soon a 3D printer. As a former MasterCam guy I could go that way but because I am a new...
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SprutCAM
Anybody use SprutCAM 7? If you do what do you think of it?
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Does anyone still have a working tape punch ?
It's nice to have a punched backup copy of parameters...so much easier to enter them that way... I'd happily pay a small fee for the service.....
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