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If I understand your scenario correctly, this has to be turned on a lathe, any inconsistency in the surface will result in inaccurate data with regards to the tensile strength of the material.

Double click on the work coordinate in the features tab, enter 55 in the left field of the of the "Standard, Additional Work Coordinate Number" row and you should get G55 in your posted code, leaving...

The following is from Scientific Cutting Tool Catalogue, hopefully it helps.


It may be necessary to use more radial depth passes than shown on the chart (p.36) when cutting
an unfavorable...

For a deep pocket like that, I like to use a stub length carbide endmill with a long shank that has been relieved for the DOC required; it is much more rigid then having an endmill with a long flute...

A 1/16 or 1/32 ballnose endmill would look good as well.

There is a "prefer canned" box in roughing & threading processes that, when checked, will post out canned cycles; assuming that your post is set-up to use them.

Just as a reminder, this was the first response that I saw to the original post (4$\hr). We can all piss & moan that we don't make the X# of dollars that we feel we deserve in this trade and that...

Check your stock values in the document control box or any geometry or solids that you may have defined as stock. Gibbs use these values to calculate the toolpath when "stay in stock" is selected.

If you are talking about the offset contour plug-in then unfortunately that has not changed, but it is part of the lathe module in the upcoming v9 of Gibbs but I don't know if it will be part of the...

Are you asking about posthaste or Compost ?

For roughing 2-3 flutes for sure but for finishing the more flutes the better as long as you can get the proper amount of chip evacuation.

We use Destiny tools for aluminum their "Viper" line is phenomenal

Have a look at the tool that you are trying to use, if it's orientation/touch-off point is incompatible with the tool path you are trying to generate nothing will happen and the opposite is also...

Have you tried using the plug-ins folder to use post-haste for your machine.

All of my tools are Mitutoyo, they seem to work well.

Tool presetters are great, the ones that we have at my shop are old but utimately are accurate enough, depending on the operator, at least within .001". Once you start cutting chances are that offset...

I have a 115v Lincoln "Weldpack 100" mig welder. I have read that this unit is not capable of welding aluminum due to a lack of amperage, but the users manual says that it can. If the manual is true...

Your Gibbs reseller will do any post edits that you need, but if you do want to make changes yourself you can purchase "Compost" which is the software that is used for making Gibbs posts. Your...

If you right click on the solid and click on properties you can set the solid model as a stock body. The easiest way to program a surface in Gibbs is to use the profiler, if you drag it over the...

I appreciate the offer but I feel very confident in my understanding of the GibbsCam software I was only expressing a cynical view of the companies motivation. I am personally a huge fan of the...

My experience is with yasnac and fanuc controls and as far as I know you can't have cutter comp. called on a G2 or G3 line which is probably why the cutter comp. is being put at the end of the...

I agree, my experience with other software is limited to a small understanding of Mastercam but I feel that I know Gibbs pretty well and they do not seem to be interested in being an all round...

For future reference, if you look in the root folder, where Gibbs is installed, under 'documentation' you will find the post haste manual in pdf format.

DO NOT remove the G43 line unless you want to bury a tool into the vise. The code looks okay except mabey try putting the 'D3' on line N94 after the G41.

In regards to the original post post about virtual predator, I have never used it but was recently talking to a reseller of the software & it costs around 1000.00 dollars (canadian) per axis.

Do you have room to use a bigger endmill? If you have a larger radius on the ballnose the stepover amount will be less drastic.

I only have a limited amount experience with mc9 and have heard that some people are unhappy with mcX, so what do you guys think of Gibbs. It's what I have been using for 3 years and I really like it.

I don't mean to sound too negative, but it's my guess that it is not in Gibbs' best interest to make it easy for us to learn the software on our own, considering that they charge 500 dollars a day to...

Just curious, we have pro-e at work but nobody knows how to use it. I have been trying to learn it, the version we have is 2000i2. I'm wondering how much more user friendly wildfire is.

I can only assume that at 30,000 RPM you are using a carbide tool. The rule of thumb is that the depth of cut should not exceed the cutter radius for full slotting. I would start your feedrate...