[SomeWhatLost]

fwiw, the Tormach controller isn't running windows (as such), it is running MachOS (ok, so it is just XPe with a bunch of stuff stripped out, but still, seems like it may be a bad idea to put the stuff that they worked so hard to strip out, back in...of course, at the end of the day, I guess this is more of one of those YMMV type of deals...)

anyway, I have a question, every time I set the Max RPM to 5100, it turns red? why is that? seems to still poop out reasonable F&S's through...
is it just discriminating against me because I only have a little mill that can't run at a billion RPM or am I doing something wrong?

also does setting the Speed & Feed %'s to ~60% seem to make sense for the Tormach, as it isn't a multi-billion dollar super mill?

[zero_divide]

fwiw, the Tormach controller isn't running windows (as such), it is running MachOS (ok, so it is just XPe with a bunch of stuff stripped out, but still, seems like it may be a bad idea to put the stuff that they worked so hard to strip out, back in...of course, at the end of the day, I guess this is more of one of those YMMV type of deals...)

anyway, I have a question, every time I set the Max RPM to 5100, it turns red? why is that? seems to still poop out reasonable F&S's through...
is it just discriminating against me because I only have a little mill that can't run at a billion RPM or am I doing something wrong?

also does setting the Speed & Feed %'s to ~60% seem to make sense for the Tormach, as it isn't a multi-billion dollar super mill?

Max RPM simply limits the RPM result its gonna give you.
say if 650SFM for 1/4" endmill works out to 20000 RPM and 167 IPM.
The MaxRPM of 5000 limits the RPM to 5000 and feed to 16 IPM accordingly.

Works the same for all other limits.

It only goes red to show that the limit was tripped, so you see its the max for your machine.

regarding SFM/Feedrate overrides. you of course may use those and also Torque Limit.
Torque limit will not affect rates for smaller end mills but for bigger ones it will reduce the feedrate.
So once you figured out comfortable torque limit for your machine, you don't need to play with SFM/FEED overrides anymore.

Industrial machines I work on handle up to 150% on both overrides.

[zero_divide]

New version 0.013 is available for download.

Material database has been updated. Stuff is now sorted according to material group.

Also Font Scaling is now fixed: this should fix all problems with text boxes crawling all over each other when users are using large system fonts.

Also all the data you typed in is saved on exit and retrieved back when application is opened again.

Also it does not need .NET framework 4.0 anymore: it should work with .NET v2.0

You can get it here FSWizard Standalone

[SquibLoad]

Thanks for your efforts.

I attempted to install the latest version, and it fails. Prior version installed correctly.

FYI symptoms: Win7 OS, fails attempting to create FSWizard dir in program files directory. If you hand create a directory, it then fails attempting to extract EXE file. In both cases, it fails with a message that Admin privs needed. User is the admin, so something else is going on.

[zero_divide]

Thanks for your efforts.

I attempted to install the latest version, and it fails. Prior version installed correctly.

FYI symptoms: Win7 OS, fails attempting to create FSWizard dir in program files directory. If you hand create a directory, it then fails attempting to extract EXE file. In both cases, it fails with a message that Admin privs needed. User is the admin, so something else is going on.

Can you try to de-download it again: i updated the link there.
Please tell me whether it works or no.

[SquibLoad]

Can you try to de-download it again: i updated the link there.
Please tell me whether it works or no.

I'd be happy to try, but site appears to be broken. I only get black pages, navs go nowhere and display nothing.

[slowtwitch]

Thanks for your efforts.

I attempted to install the latest version, and it fails. Prior version installed correctly.

FYI symptoms: Win7 OS, fails attempting to create FSWizard dir in program files directory. If you hand create a directory, it then fails attempting to extract EXE file. In both cases, it fails with a message that Admin privs needed. User is the admin, so something else is going on.

Even if your logged in as an admin, you may still have to right click the exe. file and hit run as administrator.