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I use G84 all the time in aluminium. higher end sfm the better. thicken your coolant aluminium does not like water. follow your tap manufacturer correct sfm

I have a problem. We have older milling machines in place with new machines coming in to replace them someday. The old machines have floppy disk drives the new ones don't. I have hundreds of programs...

I have a Mazak qtn 350II with nexus control and keep getting this alarm. Alarm 1443 mist over. No fix in the book. I've tried Mazak support and they said they would get back to me. Thanks

I'm new at mazatrol programming and need to know if it's possible to single point a 1-11.5 npt thread using tornado milling? I could program a straight thread. I had to g-code the tool path. Mazak...

I'm trying to put a 3 inch radius right down the center of the 23 inch bar .4 deep. Yes I tried that. It seemed to generate a tool path underneath the part, then nothing. My surface arrow is on the...

I'm a new user of surfcam velocity. I can't seem to find out how to rough out a surface. I have a square pc of bar stock 23. inchs long. I'm trying to rough this pc out to .4 deep with a 3 inch...

In mill V9 or X how do you get toolpaths feedrates in ipr under .01? Keeps giving me zero.

I seem to have rookie problem in setting up an od bar at a 45 degree position. I'm running a g-code program and can't figure why my tool is going to the wrong position to start. I've run this tool on...

I have 2 problems with mcx. I can't use manual entry in mcx lathe 1. It kicks me out of the program and gives me a fatal error. I have to be able to enter instructions for the operators. In mcx mill...

Thanks for help. I got the answer. All you need to do is press the far left botton in position page twice, press eia monitor, curser down and highlight n# in program, press restart2nd, press position...

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How do you start in the middle of a program at the beginning of the day? I have ten tools in my program, I shut down at the end of the day with 5 tools done. The next day I start and warm up the...

What Will Magnetize Steel

Setup your drill. In parameters select the drill point button, select point entry. If no point or line exists make one. Be careful with using abs and inc. steveo

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I have this problem. The company I work for just had 2 vtl machines rebuilt. They went from old nc controls to new...

When I produce a lathe drawing I write and make .nc programs. I then turn the finished part drawing into solids or surfaces (with solids I don't get that error as much, but still get them) so when I...

Sometimes when I create an stl file I get (lw has found the stl file not to be closed and water tight. An approximation will be used as stock). It does'nt happen all the time. I can't find any help...

With using Mastercam v9 (lathe) how do you seperate the same tool. Say I'm using tool1 offset 1 to face and cut the od but, I want the tool to go home in between facing and the od. Is there a...