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POINT TAKEN.
I've banged my head against the wall for too many years. THANKS

The boss wouldn't spring for anything more than a hand tap. He's a welder...

Thanks Ben.
That was the problem, packing chips. My taps never snapped off, just chipped out the teeth. I'll give those a try.
Tom

OTHER TAPS WHERE OSG ELECTRALUBE AND REIFF & NESTOR

NOW 3/8 THICK NOT 5/16

CUTTING LUBE
RIGID EXTREME PERFORMANCE THREAD LUBE

REGAL BELOIT, SOME "WHO KNOWS WHAT" 5/16 304 BAR
The last time I had this job I went thru 3 taps (broken teeth) on ten parts.
I tried drilling oversize, big chamfers, down to 15 SFM. Nothing...

The last time I had this job I went thru 3 taps (broken teeth) on ten parts.
I tried drilling oversize, big chamfers, down to 15 SFM. Nothing seemed to work.

I just got them again. HELP
I...

SOMETHING LIKE THIS?
I can do a duplicate off 10mm with a different WO (G55) to get the whole hole pattern.

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OXXXX
(Y ARRAY )
G0 G17 G40 G49 G80 G90 G98
T2 M6
G90 G54 G0 X0 Y0
S4535 M3

I asked the wrong question in the OP.
What I'm looking for is a way to offset the work offset (30 times) from the original G54. The next parts have 30 rows of 32 holes not evenly spaced.
Is...

Thanks
That's how I'm doing it now, but when a tool gets dull (304 rolled plate) I would hate to start all over at the start. I have a number of these to do.
I would like to get some subs together...

I have 30 rows of 16 holes per row and am having difficulty using M97 and incremental within the sub.
Multiple tools. spot. drill. ream. countersink. 20 YO VF3 with no macros. It does the first...

I am just hoping to find something a button-pusher could do. I do miss macro programming.

I have 25+ different lengths of tooling that need a groove cut in them .33 wide by .14 deep.
I would like to be able to just enter the OAL as a parameter and go. Something an operator can do...

I'm on a 97 VF-3 and have a bunch of open ended slots to do of varied lengths.
We do not have macro (I should be so lucky). My CNC programming software is SURFCAM but I don't want to re-program for...

Thanks Moldcore.

That was exactly what I needed to do. Good job to understanding my poor description.

Tom in MN

I have a IGES file I imported and can't find the way to save it to a different view. No matter how I spin it and change views, it always is saved as the same view as a dxf. Is there someting I'm...

I believe the problem was the calculations were using the truncated (1/25.4) as .0394 in four places making the 1727.2 mm length come out long by 1.3mm out of tol. on my +/- .1mm. Adding one more...

Solution
The metric system tolerances in the - tools - system - tolerances in metric units was a little low (.0013). I imported the iges in inch units, with the factory defaults (.0000500) and...

When I scale a model to inch from metric SurfCam seem to round it off to 4 places and I can't find where to fix it.

SE VF5

very frustrated

I saved the part as a DXF, brought it in as a new part and all was OK

version 5, XP SP3,
When hit my I fit my geometry to the screen, it bounces from one corner of the part to another part of the part, Back and forth. It never centers the whole part. Any ideas what's...

I voted doitall But 80+ % of the time I'm programming and setting up tools and maint.. I operate the machine as needed when the regular is on vacation or tied up with another project, so I'm on it...

New here, looks like a good forum. I'm in St Paul MN and most of my programming is for a Siemens 840C on a large gantry mill. A good deal of TNC155 time as well on a big horizontal mill. Surfcam is...