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Sometimes it takes an early morning with a fresh head to catch a mistake. I was scrolling through using the Next Tool button and assuming it wasn't posting the transformed toolpaths. By manually...

Anyone?

By changing to operation order, and selecting disable posting of source operations, I can now get it to increment the work offset starting at G54 (that's what I want). Also, the number of steps in...

I can get transform to work...kinda... I can get it to transform the operation once, but not more than once. Also, by changing the number of steps on the translate - between points parameter, it...

Dropping max stepover cured it.

Edit: well, almost. It now only wants to cut the corners, not the flat sides.

Edit: I didn't think I needed a containment boundary because I wasn't trying to...

I have a square part with sloped sides (kind of like a pyramid with four sides and a flat plateau on top). I want to do a surface HSM core roughing pass but it only comes in and nips off a corner,...

Ah yes, the ol' Write key. Thanks!

I enabled the setting, but it still powers on at 100% and I'm still able to go to 100% in a program.

I don't run my GR-510 over 50% and I am curious if there is a way to set the startup default rapid speed to 50%. Is that possible?

Thanks!

Every time I restart my GR-510 and attempt to access VQC, it tells me that the VQC template isn't found and I need to press F2 to select the template. I then press F2, there's the template, I select...

Bump.

Should I be reducing speeds/feeds like I do in aluminum because I'm manually adding oil and air instead of flooding/misting?

Thanks for the quick responses!

It's ok to run the carbide like a HSS tool? The Melonite apparently takes the first 0.020" to a 68 Rockwell. The first cut sucks the most, then when it's being...

It's a Haas GR-510, it can do it. Maybe I didn't clarify, 0.48 IPM on plunge. You want me to do 10 IPM on plunge?

The part is a handgun slide with a surface-hardened Melonite coating. I am machining a 1/4" pocket (with 1/16" radius corners) and was hoping to run a pocket with the 1/8" tool. I'm manually adding...

On my mills, I manually add Tapmatic oil and successfully reduce SFM to 60% on Al with good results. However, these are at significantly higher speeds than when machining stainless. I am afraid of...

Turns out that it's coated with Melonite (Rockwell ~68 hardness) but once I get through that, I'm able to file it much easier.

I have written a program to flush-mount an optic on the top of a handgun slide. The manufacturer specs list a "through-hardened" stainless steel slide, so my boss is pretty nervous about the...

I have a Haas GR-510 and am toying with the idea of mounting a Synrad 48-1 to the head to do fabric laser cutting. Has anyone seen something like this? My main concern is having the beam projecting...

Cool, thanks. So I can enable tip compensation and set the compensation to zero and then when I drill blind holes it will measure by hole depth along the side and not the center. Tommy likey.

If I program a drilling operation, say, 0.7" into a stock (without tip compensation enabled), will it be 0.7" deep along the side of the hole or 0.7" to the center of the tip? In other words, if I...

Also, I wish there is a way that I can enter percentage of diameter values instead of actual depths. Is that possible?

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Cool, thanks. What is the K value?

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I'm using X3 on a GR510. I'm not sure what output I'm looking for in terms of IJ or Q, I just want the option to be available and it to do what it is supposed to.

Are you saying I need to make...

I would like to program an initial peck depth that is different than the rest of my peck depths, but my Peck Drill screen has all input options grayed out with the exception of Inital Peck. I read...

Thanks for the input. Flood coolant isn't an option, we don't have it setup on this machine. I also think I found an issue. I read on this forum that there is a work-around in Mastercam for having...

Cool story, thanks guys.

That is genius and I can even select to output it as a comment. Thanks!

I just experienced some serious chipweld on the end of my 0.116" carbide twist drill using these parameters:
Spindle: 8276
FPT: 0.0005
Feed Rate: 4.1 (initially tried 8.3 and it broke on the third...

Is there a place in Mastercam to add tool notes or setup notes that will carry into the post? I like to print the header so that I can get the tools loaded and I'm also writing the origin and notes,...