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I updated from R4-SP4 to all of the updates to R4-SP9 this past week. Controller has worked fine since 2017.
After updates to current ones, everything works except Y & Z will error out with "...

Thanks Burrman, after working with the BC support guy it's printing the part to scale now. Don't know what I did to this drawing solid but we did a translate, scale at 25.4 and it came into the...

I drew up and saved a part in stl to be 3D printed , which worked out great, part to size I drew it in.
Drew up another part , saved it as a STL and when I brought it into my 3D printer program I...

Burrman, turn and run from printing in BC or from the free ones? I'm thinking of just buying a simple printer to hook up to my XP ACAD computer just to print the few drawings I do in a year. rob

Thanks Burrman, I had to bump each section around to get it onto the printed page that seems centered around x0,y0. Changed line width to 3 to get it dark enough for the old eyes to see. But you...

In my 20 year old Autocad 14 I can draw a window around a section of a drawing I want to print and it will print whats in the window leaving rest of drawing out using "print window" command. Then I...

Thanks Mmoe, Did as you instructed and worked out great. And I did put in a lead out at bottom so no crash. rj

I'm cutting an internal pipe thread 1 1/2" in aluminum mold. I use "3 axis wire frame" to cut it using a single point tool. My question is when I want to bump tool out another .01 to get thread...

I followed what jrmach suggested and was able to get it done with mill 3 axis wireframe. I used "other, spiral" to first draw the taper spiral, add enter ,exit lines, then contour spiral, much like...

I was able to do tapered pipe thread milling in V25 but in V27 the Mill 3 axis, strategy "engrave" selection is gone???? In v25 I could draw my NPT with other, spiral and get it figured out. And get...

Got to be some one in this country that has one of these?????? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even little bits to help me figure out the puzzle. Don't need a thesis ,just what the pics mean...

Got a new to me sinker, 1996 Santec 300c with F36 controller. I need help with what all the knobs and toggles do on the machine. No manual came with machine. Heres some close ups of controller. Can...

a little late to the party but am wondering if you got the Boy functioning properly? the unmelted plastic is what drives the screw backwards till it hits B14 micro switch if memory serves me right....

I've had 3 boys in my shop and they all made parts day after day. First one was like the one in the pics above. All 22Tons from the 70-80's. My two current ones are 1980 15/S and 1982 15/S with...

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Anyone using V26 yet? rj

Been using BC off and on since early DOS versions v14 I think. Been using v25 for 1 yr. I called BC and redid the license and all is well again. thanks, rj

I have 2 paid seats of BC v25 one for work and one for home. Made and saved several drawings both at work and at home. Use a thumb drive to get the files back and forth from home to work to use/work...

"Here's a possibly helpful tip, when your NOT possitive if you like one toolpath over another, don't delete the feature from the camtree, just right click on the feature, then pick the "post yes/no "...

bobcad guy, no worries. From your last post it sounds like your paying me a compliment that "I can't be stupid" in that I know enough to go online and ask for help. All true . I can see where the...

Thanks jrmach, I'll have a lookysee, rj

yes I have the file but didn't know how to bring it back into BC from a floppy or the backup that is setup in preferences.
I'm pretty dense I know. I had changed the file G code several times in BC...

I made a solid mold cavity part in BC V25 and generated the code to rough it out. Now I want to do a finish pass on it. How do I get the old code back in BC so all I have to change is the step over...

Would a surefire way for me to avoid all this bad wire frame at the getgo be to draw the shape of the frame. Then extrude the curves around the frame and that would show me any lines that are not...

Thanks Luke, That will help me down the line a lot when missing details like this and then I need to add them, rj

thanks a bunch guys. I just put the 2 holes in randomly so you could see the hollowness of the solid part . The holes are actually turned 90 deg from where you see them to put a bolt thru to tighten...

here's the zipped file cept I made it 1" thick instead of .250 to better show the hollowness I'm talking about, rj

here's the part: NOT
Well when I try to save the part as a .dwg or dxf for the attachment BobCad shuts down so how do I get my part file onto here :mad: thanks rj

If I pick the wireframe using the shift key, all of the frame turns red so I thought it was all connected together and not broken.
I'll try and get the file attached and show you .Gotta get to ups...

Not solid as in not like a solid in Solid Works where the solid contains all the gobble de goop for stress analisist, what material solid is made of, etc.
If I draw a 2d frame, make it into a plane,...

Why is it when I have a part drawn by doing a 2D wire frame, then using that shape to make a plane , then extruding that plane up .25 so I have a solid part .250 thick the shape of the wire frame all...