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Mastercam Viewsheets

Often so slow when clicking between them that it feels like a batch script is running to make them work. Is this yet ano...
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posted by jonbanquer
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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 S...
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posted by jonbanquer
3 comments posted 14yrs posted by jonbanquer

Biggest Issue I Have With Mastercam:

File specific instability problems! Corrupt machining operations that have to be deleted. Going from shaded model to wi...
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posted by jonbanquer
11 comments posted 14yrs posted by jonbanquer

Learn about the PLC in your CNC

http://www.bin95.com/St-Louis_PLC_Training.htmNot just a presentation, real-world, hands-on with actual PLCs, learn onl...
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posted by bin95.engineering.education
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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...
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posted by fitcat
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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 th...
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posted by parkstreetbooboo
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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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posted by cwhitmore4
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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....
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posted by rbraun333
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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 o...
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posted by billsmachine42
6 comments posted 14yrs posted by billsmachine42

House booster pump as coolant pump??

Such as: http://www.harborfreight.com/34-horsepower-whole-house-water-pressure-booster-pump-with-stainless-steel-housin...
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posted by fitcat
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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)??...
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posted by fusion640
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Couple of Things From Machine Design

What's hot in CAD: http://machinedesign.com/article/whats-hot-in-cad-0308 This article appears under the above article:...
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posted by pulsar
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Need Cad\Cam package

Ok I need to buy a complete cam\cad package. I prototype with a small 4axis HAAS mill, a small HAAS lathe, and soon a 3...
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posted by xlabmach
3 comments posted 14yrs posted by xlabmach

SprutCAM

Anybody use SprutCAM 7? If you do what do you think of it?
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posted by soundadv
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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...
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posted by precisionmachinist123
0 comments posted 14yrs posted by precisionmachinist123