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Has anybody had any luck getting a back boring cycle to work right? Offset in from the hole edge, drop into the hole, move out to hole edge, cut UP, offset out from hole edge, pull out. I keep...

Howdy,

Kinda' new to the Lathe module. In the Mill Module I we can program the front and backside of a part using multiple coordinate systems, and run a machine simulation that rotates the part...

If I chose Op Sim, the part doesn't rotate, the tools "rotate" around it. The part only rotates when I run it in Machine Sim. But if I run the part in Machine Sim, the part moves in X and Y instead...

Using GibbsCam 11.0.18.

In earlier version of Gibbs when I ran machine simulations as a horizontal machine with a rotating B pallet, the tools would move and the part would rotate.

Starting...

Gibbs told me today that the Debug plug-in for Compost3 is still in development and that they aren't distributing it yet. Too bad. I really want it too.

...then use 'Transform Toolpath' to repeat the Contour operation 'x' number of times to take your cut to depth. For single-line Moorpark letters we typically use a 0.02 - 0.06 cutter and make 4 to 5...

If you really want just the highlighted surfaces, you might use the solution I worked out here:

http://forums.gibbscam.com/showthread.php?t=3357

You can download the solution I went with from...

Thanks. Worked great!

I'm a little closer.

Figured out its Degrees, Minutes, Seconds...and this UTube video showed me how to convert from minutes to decimal degrees (minutes/60).

So in my table, I find the value...

Are we talking tables???

I found this Carr Lane "Trigonometry Tables and Handy References for Engineers".

I found the 21 degree page, looked under the 'M' column for 33, looked across to the...

Is there a way to solve for x below:

cos x = .9315

other than just starting to try:

cos 21 = .9336,
cos 21.5 = .9304,
etc. etc.
until I finally hit on,

There are some videos on the GibbsCAM site (www.gibbscam.com). Follow the Support -> Product Training link to GibbsCAM Training Videos. There is a video on creating solids, one on machining solids,...

Set your Z Step to your finished Z Depth (Desired and Actual) and set # Passes to 1. Then use multiple contour operations, each leaving less stock (Stock+/-) on the contour. You can do this...

Got a PM - not exactly sure why - that shed some light on what "ballpark" means in this context. The jist of the message was the following. If I have a print in my hand with a REF dimension on it,...

Thanks a lot.

Where I work, every one seems to be under the impression that REF means something like "ballpark", i.e. no need to be too worried about any particular tolerances. Havn't been able to...

What is the difference between REF and TYP on print callouts?

Thanks

Hi Scott,

Here's a little snippet that stops after a drilling cycle to blow out a blind hole before running a tapping cycle:


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G17G40G80
T1
M6

Umm...thanks for the reply, but I posted this thread in the "NCPlot G-Code editor/backplotter" forum because my queation is about using a compulsary stop in the NCPlot software, not an actual, real,...

If I throw an M0 in my program, how to I restart the program after hitting the M0 without having to restart the program?

Also, can I use block delete (/M0)? Can I rutn block delete on and off?

Are the Advanced 3D Machining processes a sort of "upgrade" of the Surfacing processes? Do they deprecate, render obsolete, etc., the Surfacing processes? Whats the relationship? I see, for example,...

Got it...I had to force the two features to the same Z depth before I could connect them. The things I don't think to think about....

I selected a few edges on a solid:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg534/scaled.php?server=534&filename=18210871.png&res=medium

I extracted the geometry:
...

What does this mean???

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg607/scaled.php?server=607&filename=whath.png&res=medium

Its that weird little feature selection square with four lines running off of it...

I slowed my feed and took a smaller peck. No more wander drill.

I ran into the following program (I removed a few tools) written a few years back by who knows who. Notice that the main program is in absolute mode, and the sub program is in incremental mode. I...

Thanks

I just downloaded the Vermont Gage catalog. They break it down like this

Plain Plug Gages

-Class ZZ Standards

--Economical General Purpose Pin Gages

---Go (Plus) or NoGo (...

From a purchasing perspective, I'm finding the terminology confusing.

For example, the MSC on-line catalog lists:

"Plug & Pin Gages (Go/No Go Gages) & Accessories"

...but then they don't...

Just trying to get clear on the difference between plug gages and pin gages.

Pin gages come in the plus or minus variety. I get that. We have a minus set at work which is -.0002. So a nominal...

Thanks for the help. 'Course the upside of all this is at least it wasn't anything as evil as a case of attractive molecular force! Phew!!!!