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I have a Fadal 4020 that has the pallet changer door but no pallet changer. I am wanting to be able to run machine while door is open. Does anyone know how to bypass the switch to allow machine to...

I am looking for a proximity switch for my 824 techmaster surface grinder Brown and Sharpe part number 412-567. Its a 4 wire sensor. Does anyone have a source for these

Has anyone ever dealt with Charles Todd or one of his companies (Talever, MCR auctomation, supermill, american putter.) There may be more. He offers to custom build CNC Mills. Our company has had...

a 5 minute cylinder head job is never good and a good cylinder head job is never 5 minutes.

If you purchases a company and the liscense is in the name of the company then you are good to go if it is all a legally set up operating company. If he paid considerable amount less for the software...

here is an image of what I am wanting to do The left pin is tangent to the arc I want to rotate the large arc to tangent with right pin while maintaining tangent with left pin

would love to help you. and it is an easy fix. but after laying out over 15 grand for a seat of mastercam and paying for maintance. I have a hard time sharing information on mastercam with a person...

I have a large arc or spline 40 inches long. I have the spline setting tangent on the left dowel. I want to rotate the arc/spline keeping it tangent to the left to where it is touching the tangent of...

I also use the contour function when engraving. Using window to select my tool path geometry. On the valve cover I would model the valve cover and then project the image onto the surface of the cover...

I figured the quote for being complete on the mill. if your paying .05 cents each for material and running one a minute thats a 30 dollar an hour shop rate. Which is low considering you still have...

Look at it this way. At a dollar each how many an hour do you have to produce to make shop rate. If it is possible to make your shop rate then go for it but. I can say i didnt get in this business...

American quality at chinese Prices. He has worked with multiple shops bet its because the shops catch on to what hes wanting and move on

I got an email from him offering the job to me for 1.00 a piece if I didnt take it he was going to issue a p.o. to another guy for a 1.20 each. needless to say I didnt take the work.

i believe the student version of mastercam will not let you post

g43 is what picks up tool offset for the tool programmed on the 6mb

I didnt have any trouble reading a g43. I havent done much on this machine for awhile been running the fadal. I need to get it up and running but think the spindle drive might be going bad. Let me...

Someone will correct me if im wrong. I have never done this but believe In the past I have seen where if you increase your tolerances in config it will fix the problem.

should be a ble to get a copy thru your mastercam dealer in your area

use xform rotate to rotate part into position. xform translate to move to origins. toolpaths surface rough to generate a roughing pass I would use surface finish blend for your finish pass. I would...

When working up quotes. I look at machine time, programming time to complete the part which is where you would factor in the tighter the tolerance and complexity of the part. The tighter the...

mastercam cutter paths can drive off geometry, faces, and surfaces. to connect lines to model a rectangle there are several ways. if you are building using lines make sure they are on the same plane...

attributes down in the lower right corner of the screen open it up and it will have a line option or just click on the line to the right of attributes and make the change

you found the same thing I found windows 7 will not allow x5 to copy to a clip[ board and repaste I usually open the file on an xp operating system. then save and bring it in. Hope they get this fixed

theres a place in tool path parameters that allows you to choose arcs in x and y when setting up a tool path with surfaces

you got a couple options is your point on the chain. the quickest would be to move it off the chain a .100 or so if posible then select the point then the chain. You might be able to select single...

Go to you toolpath parameters under cut parameters 2nd choice down is lead in and lead out open that up and there you can adjust your lead in and lead outs if you are wanting to start at a point...

check where your top of stock is set and other settings are on the linking parameters page

create your geometry above the surface you want it on then use create surface project select the geometry and surfaces and it will project it onto the surface. then use contour 3-d tool path

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