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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Request for New Wizard

« on: January 20, 2006, 01:19:53 PM »

Brian-

The Wizards have been very useful to us on our new CNC knee mill. We've moved almost every operation we were doing on our manual mill over to the CNC machine using the Wizards.

Here's one operation we're still doing on the manual machine that we would love to have a Wizard for.

Similar to the Surfacing operation, we often have to clean up the ends on a piece of bar stock too tall to stand up in the vice so we lie it down and clamp it long ways in the vice and use the side of an endmill to clean up and square up the ends. Kind of like the Surfacing wizard but turned on its side.

Any chance of a "End Facing" or "End Surfacing" wizard to make this end clean up easier?

Thanks,

Paul T.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Possible problem with Surfacing wizard

« on: January 19, 2006, 06:15:42 PM »

Brian-

I has posted this a while back in the Yahoo mach forum, but the forum was really busy then and it might have slipped by you, I didn't see a response.

(originally posted on Yahoo mach forum)
Brian-

When using the Surfacing Material Wizard, the starting point for me is
always the upper left hand corner of the defined material, independent
of the selection I make for Start Position.

By the way, thanks for upgrade that automatically calculates chip load
based on the tool properties.

Paul T.