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Yes, That would work well actually. But a guy with a large shop had the perfect jobs for it and actually will need several so it is on the way now. I will post some of the things he makes with it. ...

Andrew, I don't think wood will work with a dovetail. Dovetail gripping works great with metal but I bet wood will simply break loose.

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Yeah its for 5 axis indexing. You use the full 4 axis to get to any coordinate system you need to and the input an option stop to manually rotate the spindle to one of 8 locations. I get most of my...

I've been using this for a while and thing its time to share. I'm looking for someone with a 4th axis who regularly makes parts in the 4" x4" x 4" size range and would like to get to a bunch more...

I've been using Gibbscam for years. Currently running 2016 V11.3. There are times I just beat my head against the keyboard trying to get some of the Adv 3D toolpath I want. If you think your good...

The ones I bought from DigiKey came with the prongs on it. I got the part number from Haas. They did not sell the battery

yes the red lead is the POS on the battery, A new battery from Digi key P/N P270-ND in package

I bought the Haas kit that has the battery attached to the lead and then got 3 battery from digi key. Use the lead and one of the spare batterys. Now I got this stuff sitting on the shelf. I would...

They told me the don't sell or loan the jumper part. Did you hear something different or have a part number to order?

Great timing for this tutorial. Mine just went out!

In the end I could not bring myself to purchase a machine that I was not familiar with and would have some learning curve too. I found a Haas 2010 VF-1 with a 15K rpm cat 40 spindle with low hours. ...

I am looking for a machine to be a dedicated machine for one part that is 2"x2"x2" and will be done on a 4th axis in large quantity. I am looking at the Brother Speedio S500 or the RoboDrill ECO. ...

the link up top is a great place to start. I still look back at them.

That would get by and could touch up some individual surfaces but still no where as good as he gets with mastercam. He gets no lift off and morph's the toolpath from the top while climb cutting down...

This is a part that gibbs uses for examples. I comparing what a friend with mastercam can to with what I get and so far his is better. We are only interested in the finish path with .187 ball nose...

I do a lot of surfaceing and run into things that I struggle with. I stopped maintainance a few years back cause I got little help with it but if there is someone out there who can help me with...

Now they will want me to catch up in full if I was to upgrade. I also tried to buy the $2200 full 4th axis but they wanted $3600 in back maintanance first. Life aint easy for a small shop.

After I do a bunch of operations and they are now on the right hand side of the screen in the finished ops section and want to make any changes can I right click the tile and select operations...

I have done 4 hrs with gibbs online and really did not get the answers I was looking for. Useing the demo model they can really whip out some great solutions and tool path but on something I send...

I am running Gibbs 2010 V9.5 with full 3d with advanced surfacing. I want to contour a pocket that is basically an upside down pyramid and the bottom rather than a point is rounded off. Roughing is...

But I cant find a color chart for the geometery or the dimensions?

I have gibbscam 2006 and sometimes I print out the geometery and dimensions on the screen. The lines are blue and the dimensions come up as a violet or red but framed in a black box so they are not...

Found help of all palces the Gibbscam site. Had to call to get the directions for what page it was on though. You'd think surfing a site that the things you need would jump out at ya. Its under...

It will be for Gibbscam and will be a dedicated to programing only. With the more complex surfacing that I have got into my current Pentium 4 3GHZ with 3G RAM and nvidia (4300?) video card will take...

It has to be an arc or spline, not a rectangle? Like useing the stock size? I just use the create spline tab and drag a spline around it? Will it go to the outer edge of the mold if the spline is...

will this work on a complex mold with many surfaces or have to do two at a time? I dont seem to be able to get the "do it" box to be available when selecting the entire surface of the mold.

If you draw a frame or geometery shape and use the pocket option, Select the geometery that is the outer shape of the surface to cut will allow it to confine the pocket to this shape, Select the...

I have seen a friend use his Mastercam on what he called a scallop cut for a complex mold surface. After roughing out the mold he used a ball endmill and it climb cut in a spiral oval shape from...