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that's how our VM1 does it. It's just a fine perforated steel sheet over one of the holes (the other is sealed), with a trough running over to the coolant tank.

In Solidworks, Y is "up", in Mastercam, Z is "up" (well, usually), that's why it comes in flipped. I always rotate the parts once they are opened in mastercam by using the "Xform" menu and rotate. ...

in X6, it's settings, configuration, converters. Check the "edge curves" box under "Solid Import"

We just have a simple 3-axis vertical, but when I bring parts into Mastercam from Solidworks, I always make sure I only program using arcs/lines, and not splines. That way the code comes out using...

I just heard back from the tech at the router company, and it's for sure an ISO 30 taper. I might go with the maritool holder, but if anyone else has any ideas please let me know

So you're saying I should be looking for SK30 tool holders instead, even though the label on the spindle says ISO 30, and the parts catalog from AXYZ also says "ISO 30 cones"

It's a Pacer 2512K+ CNC Router (made by AXYZ) with an HSD spindle.

thanks for the reply, but the Techniks site doesn't have any er-16 for ISO 30, and the Travers tool site is about the same length as the maritool one. I'd really like to find a short er-16 holder...

Does anyone know where I could find some ISO 30 ER-16 tool holders? My cnc router uses ISO 30 holders, and all I can seem to find is ER-32 holders for it--except for one from maritool which is...

if you copy the spline to another layer (so you can keep the original), you can use the simplify tool to convert from nurbs to an arc. You might have to break that nurbs spline into multiple...

depending on the picture, you should just be able to open it in illustrator and export it as a dxf to open in Mastercam. I do it that way very often. Usually you'll end up with just one long...

I guess maybe I used the terminology wrong. We only have the 3-axis at the moment, what I'd like to do is add a rotary table (I think). I don't think we could go full 5-axis on the machine, but...

Is it possible to add a trunnion to a VM1 to make it into a more versatile machine? It was something brought up by a tool salesman the other day and I thought I'd see if anyone here had any ideas.

I decided to get a certification just because it was free with our SW subscription at work. So I went through it the last two evenings and passed my CSWP! Now all I gotta do is figure out if it's...

I've upgraded to SW2012, but many of my parts are still in 2011 format. There's really very little difference in programming a model in X5 between 2010 or 2011, they both come in the same (and 2012...

Does anyone have or know of a pizza wheel style cartridge for a tangential knife system on a CNC router? I've found a couple of references to them, and even found a place that sells the blades for...

as metlshpr said, simply transform the geometry to where you want it to be. On the menu bar at the top, select "Xform", followed by "translate", and select all your geometry you need to move and...

Interesting. I get the same thing with no time shown in the backplot window, and that's using my own machine configuration. It must have something to do with using the control comp though, as that...

I'll take a look at them tomorrow if I'm back to work.

can you just attach your file and I'll take a look at it? I'm no MCam expert by any means, but if I can't figure it out I'm sure someone here can

I've tried switching multiple different toolpaths to the control comp, and the time always shows up. I wonder if it's not something to do with your Control Definition in MCam? Perhaps there's a...

Interesting, I wonder if that's a bug in the Demo version? I just tried changing a contour path from computer to control and had no problem with the backplot time showing up, and no problem with the...

You're expanding the backplot window (2 blue arrows pointing down), and then clicking on the "info" tab, right?

And I don't think the backplot time is very accurate for many machining scenarios,...

the majority of what I was cutting was 0.016" or 0.025" 2024 aluminum sheets. It certainly seemed to make a difference to cover the unused portion of the table.

What I had problems with was...

awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for. Worked perfect for me. Now I'll have to show it to our retired machinist, who I've been trying to get to try new process every once in awhile.

The table is 4'x8', the vacuum pump is 7.4HP

yup, pull right through the MDF. Works really well except when trying to hold down relatively small pieces.

I didn't see much reason to have a very big overlap, depending on how much of a cut you're taking of course. I only took like 0.025" off the top of the board, so it wasn't much. And our dust...

I think I just overlapped it by like 15% of the cutter diameter. I've only had need to do it once, and that was apparently in May, so it's been a while. Our router has a program right in it for...

well it wouldn't surprise me if there's an option to offset the x or y direction by a set distance to touch off on the tooth instead of the center of the tool, but I haven't run it enough to try...