I have always enjoyed your videos man. I just got laid off from my aerospace machining job in November. Honestly it feels nice not being pushed to have to make ridiculous tolerance parts. I can respect what you have to figure out man. People who don't program and design fixturing have no clue how much brain power it takes. Hope the new year treats you well!
What a great time to be laid off (sarcasm), I really wish you the best of luck in the New Year with finding a job that treats you better than the last. Happy and Healthy New Year to you and yours Sir.
Sometimes I think about quitting the industry entirely because of this fact. So much technical knowledge is required to make a good part and a lot of times we are responsible for the whole process start to finish. All for relatively low pay in my opinion.
@@Juxtaposed1Nmotion First off when is the US not at war, secondly it has nothing to do with little old rude you. Learn a little respect son, talk to people how you would if you met them face to face. Have a great day.
These type of videos are the ones I love to watch because they're the best ones on RUclips imo about how to actually approach difficult parts and common issues in a normal machining environment instead of having all the issues made up or having some unrealistic way to do things. Keep up the great work can't wait to see what's next
Stefan Gotteswinter usually describe parts, that he cannot go into details about as Flux capacitor components. This one is clearly a flux capacitor stirring rod. Also, thank you for spending the time on telling us the details.
I’ve been a machinist for 40 years and I’m still in the trade. I make odd ball parts. Your parts are a little big more complex. Some times I design the whole assembly and I go in the field and run it or assemble it this has taken me to Antarctica 16 times. I do really enjoy your videos and I learn. I miss your videos and 2 guys in California that made excellent machinist videos seemed to have stopped. I’ll still watch your videos that you make in your home shop.
Really enjoyed listening to the thoughts behind the set up and machining processes and particularly the supplied model and the errors it had. Also glad you explained the reduction in content from your channel. I for one will continue to follow your content wherever it comes from, be it the company that bought your machines, your home garage or a future set up south of the border after you retire.
Wow, l’m really impressed, as a rookie struggling to make more than one decent 1” hole 2,5” deep in 4340 steel with a carbide boring bar! First piece made great surface, the following pieces started screaming like crazy, speed, feed, clamping force, praying, nothing helped. 24” deep intermittent cut in a tuning fork with good surface finish has to be some kind of new record… Happy new year Peter, thanks for sharing your thoughts and expert knowledge.
I'm not a CNC machinist, not even a "real" machinist, just a hobbyist, but I find your videos, although at times over my head, still entertaining and fascinating.
I really appreciate that you took the time to post this information. I can imagine how hard it must be to quote something like this. To figure out how much time you would need to plan and program the part. Estimating the tools to make and which steps to take first to last. Not to mention the fixtures and components. I have had issues with solid models like that myself. The engineer doesnt know how to draw the features so he just leaves a note on the drawing and then expects you to figure it out. ( for the missing radius on the flights of the barrel. ) Charles
There is such a razors edge of profit/loss when quoting jobs like this. Even if you do win the job you always ask yourself if you should have asked for more. It's a torturous experience.
This makes me a bit sad. You've been an excellent teacher, and it seems to be coming to a conclusion, at least for this type of work. I worked for a patternmaker years ago, and when he finally sold his shop, I felt the same way. Anyway, it was time, and that's the way things go. I'll certainly keep watching whatever you can share. Thanks for everything!
I appreciate you letting the engineers of the world know how the little extra surfaces they sometimes leave behind can cause real headaches for software downstream. We have one customer whose engineering department has a horrible track record of such errors. It really eats up time trying to manipulate our software to get a clean tool path on surfaces when working on anything with complex features. Great video. Thanks for taking the time.
We will keep watching. Whatever you upload , I’m sure , will be very entertaining and also informative. I am a CNC machinist as well. Not nearly as advanced. Still sort of new. In my 4th year and loving every minute.
Thank you so much for the time you took to make this video and share your experience and knowledge about your job. It’s really a gift for someone like me who wants to learn. Take care and have a great end of the year
You're an angel for fixing their CAD model for them. I send anything like that back... I'll make simple edits, but nothing like that. As ever, thank you for sharing your work and your wisdom 🙂
I always appreciate your deep dive videos and as another lonely Esprit user that's plenty CAM detail you've shown. Great planning, I probably would have done much the same - who knows if there is another batch and different heat of those maybe that 50 thou and jack would be needed.
this was a very important video for most of us viewers because speaking for myself, I didn't totally understand what was going on during the machining of the part. It also showed us how much more difficult it was to anticipate and plan for potential problems. I think this video along with the machining would be a great teaching aid for both advanced machining and mechanical engineering students. In fact most of your complicated jobs could be used to teach manufacturing engineering! Thanks for sharing.
Wow that (silent) bar is worth its wieght in gold!! Haha. The fact you can automatically change 26inch long tools in that machine is crazy!! (I can only do 19.25" in our Cincinnati horizontal) 😊 GREAT JOB!!! BEAUTIFUL PART!!! 😊😊
Peter, a well deserved retirement is starting to take form . I'm really happy for that. Probably you'll make more content , even from Mexico , but it's not wrong to enjoy a little peace . These videos are a gift to machinist around the world. I'm just a bit sad that i've never seen an apprentice . ps.: as i told you some years ago , i would love to come work for you - of course this is just fantasy . Thanks for the update and happy new year.
I am so surprised the part did not spring when u cut the tabs. Whew! Wrap milling with Esprit is pretty amazing it works very well on a straight 4 axis machine if you have a good model (native to your software if u are lucky) to get the chain features / free form features from. The drawing notation to "machine from solid model" is pure laziness, then just add crappy solid model from the customer to top it off. Great job Peter very impressive.
AMAZING! I'm a machinist myself and use esprit TNG to program different kind of machines. I've watched almost every video You made and everytime learned something new! THANK YOU!
I appreciate you taking the time to make this breakdown. Fortunately I have a pretty good relationship with our engineers and I can push back some on their designs. It really helps when you know what a feature’s purpose is so you can know how seriously to treat it. I feel like we might be in the same boat retirement wise, I’m pretty burned out but there is practically no one with experience available who can take over the shop when I leave so I’d be really hurting the company if I went. I think a lot of machinists approaching retirement are in this boat. I already have a garage shop set up for my post retirement.
For me, this would be a "white knuckle" experience! My hat is off to you!! You have to wonder if the square hole is really needed. The sharp inside corners will introduce stress corners, and it increases the cost of the part. I would love to know how that feature is used.
What ever you wind up doing, it has been an absolute pleasure to watch all your videos. I know you did a "getting started" video early on but it would be fascinating to hear a longer more detailed story of your machining career. I would love to hear about when you worked for that NASA contractor.
It's obvious that it is some sort of pump. Not sure why they are so secretive. I learned a long time ago, if you think of it, a bunch of other people have as well. Not sure you should have sold your entire shop to this company but you have to live with that choice.
Un saludo desde León Gto . México aquí te esperamos con los brazos abiertos .toda tu experiencia y humildad hacen de tu trabajo el mejor cotizado.no tienes que preocuparse por jale y materia prima trae la Mazack. Hasta puedes dar clases . saludos aveces la burocracia en el trabajo hace que tomes decisiones difíciles.
Thank you so much for your videos. It does not matter what kind of detail it is, what it is called and where it is used. What matters is how you made it, what kind of equipment and tools you used.
Personally, I'd love seeing you make videos in any hobby. Get into hydroponics? Hell yeah. Slot car racing? Lemme see whatchu got. Minecraft let's play? Instant subscribe.
Would love to see the programming side of the CAM that you mentioned you should leave out. A full CAM overview on this part would be really insightful for some of us who program B axis mill turns. There are a million different ways to skin the same cat so to speak when programming mill turns.
Hi Peter now we know why I have not seen to many videos always a problem when working for someone anyway look forward to perhaps some videos from the home shop and your move to Mexico.
Peter I don’t run cnc or cad but could watch you work all day. Thanks for sharing, very interesting. PS did you ever do anything with the little anvel you talked about doing a giveaway with.
With that set screw, could you just make a pin that fits the tap drill diameter of the threaded hole? So that the pin bears against the cylindrical ID of the threads?
Hi Peter, how will you feel working with lesser capable machines in your garage. You're a god with that Integrex. Im thinking you need something with similar capabilities, but maybe not that big. Love the videos. I feel restrained working with my VF2, but at the same time it forces me to be creative.
Peter, did you notice any variation in the bore diameter just after the transition from the aluminum spacer to this stainless? I'm curious if it acted like an interrupted cut and caused the amount of deflection to vary it a little bit.
At the tolerances I was dealing with where (+-.005”). I wasn’t to concerned with this. I also took many spring passes with the bar. The tool wasn’t cutting into the aluminum spacer. It was below the surface of the bore. So I wasn’t measuring it to .0001”. At those tolerances it may show up. I didn’t check it that close.
Peter, do you adjust your machine's parameters frequently? Running Mazak's a lot of people have trouble with that- mostly having to change parameters because the experience barrier alarms / alarms related to travel limits. Also have you ever done an update on the PLC? would be great to see a video on those subjects.Adjusting parameters is an art and requires serious care and knowledge but it is very interesting when you can sort of trick the machine into doing certain things to make the machine perform in certain way. Thought you might have good perspective and knowledge on that. Cheers and happy new year!
If you run Mazatrol programs you will be adjusting parameters continually. But running g-code (what Mazak calls eia programs) you don’t need to adjust parameters. So because I run g-code programs I don’t ever adjust parameters and I disable safety barriers because the simulation in my cam software is so good with collision detection I don’t use them.
Thank you for the information. Yes- I avoid using Mazatrol as much as possible- it can work well for some very simple part features but have found it quite frustrating in terms of how many alarms it throws even when doing something more straightforward. Even though TOOL DATA menu is mostly meant for Mazatrol, I still use it for EIA for tool management. Esprit has great simulation. Mostly use Mastercam but would like to switch for that reason. Really great to see this video with some Esprit tool paths, would love to see more of that content if you are able to document your programming in future videos.@@EdgePrecision
The Esprit people make the post for your specific machine and machine model for the simulation. Both have to work together to process code with Esprit TNG. There is really no way to make your own with Esprit TNG. With the older Esprit you could edit your own but you don’t have as accurate simulation.
How has Centerline benefited from you doing these videos? Was there a dispute that the videos were able to resolve? Did the videos bring them new business? I always got the impression that you were walking on eggshells to record your work. Reminds me of Abom79 back in the days before he went to work for himself. I appreciate you sharing this with us. I was pretty bored watching the last video, but to see this puts it all into perspective and makes it interesting for me.
The cam software must calculate the feed based on the rotary axis feed. When inputting the feed it is in, inches per minute in my case. By it changes it to degrees per minute when rotating the rotary axis. The linear axis’s are limited by the rotary axis speed to make the end point of the move. If that makes sense. So the rotary axis controls the feed. Unless your machine has very fast rotary axis’s that could keep up with the linar axis’s. On a wrapped cut in the cycle you enter a diameter so it can calculate this. On videos you will see when the tool path is close to the center of rotation the rotary axis will feed/rotate very fast. But on this machine the C axis isn’t real fast so in general it limits the feed.
I don't know what that part is supposed to be for, but it looks like the flutes may be to clear material away from where the square hole is. Or maybe to draw material in to where the square hole is? Lol
Sorry I didn’t quote this job. So I don’t know anything about the price of these parts. But in general I don’t like to talk about the price of jobs I’m doing for other people.
I am sure Centreline know just how lucky they are to have you working there Peter.Keep up the fantastic work.
Well that's for sure. Couldn't agree more
I have always enjoyed your videos man. I just got laid off from my aerospace machining job in November. Honestly it feels nice not being pushed to have to make ridiculous tolerance parts. I can respect what you have to figure out man. People who don't program and design fixturing have no clue how much brain power it takes. Hope the new year treats you well!
What a great time to be laid off (sarcasm), I really wish you the best of luck in the New Year with finding a job that treats you better than the last. Happy and Healthy New Year to you and yours Sir.
Sometimes I think about quitting the industry entirely because of this fact. So much technical knowledge is required to make a good part and a lot of times we are responsible for the whole process start to finish. All for relatively low pay in my opinion.
you got laid off from an aerospace place during wartime? either you suck or you got replaced by a cheaper employee
@@Juxtaposed1Nmotion First off when is the US not at war, secondly it has nothing to do with little old rude you.
Learn a little respect son, talk to people how you would if you met them face to face. Have a great day.
These type of videos are the ones I love to watch because they're the best ones on RUclips imo about how to actually approach difficult parts and common issues in a normal machining environment instead of having all the issues made up or having some unrealistic way to do things. Keep up the great work can't wait to see what's next
Thanks for the masterclass Peter, this should be required watching for any engineer!
you sir are an artist! we dont care what the part is, we enjoy the process and the the result.
Peter thank you for allowing us to look over a Masters' shoulder.
Stefan Gotteswinter usually describe parts, that he cannot go into details about as Flux capacitor components. This one is clearly a flux capacitor stirring rod.
Also, thank you for spending the time on telling us the details.
Thanks for explaning that. Myself I appreciate the clarity.
I’ve been a machinist for 40 years and I’m still in the trade.
I make odd ball parts.
Your parts are a little big more complex.
Some times I design the whole assembly and I go in the field and run it or assemble it this has taken me to Antarctica 16 times.
I do really enjoy your videos and I learn. I miss your videos and 2 guys in California that made excellent machinist videos seemed to have stopped.
I’ll still watch your videos that you make in your home shop.
Really enjoyed listening to the thoughts behind the set up and machining processes and particularly the supplied model and the errors it had. Also glad you explained the reduction in content from your channel. I for one will continue to follow your content wherever it comes from, be it the company that bought your machines, your home garage or a future set up south of the border after you retire.
Wow, l’m really impressed, as a rookie struggling to make more than one decent 1” hole 2,5” deep in 4340 steel with a carbide boring bar!
First piece made great surface, the following pieces started screaming like crazy, speed, feed, clamping force, praying, nothing helped.
24” deep intermittent cut in a tuning fork with good surface finish has to be some kind of new record…
Happy new year Peter, thanks for sharing your thoughts and expert knowledge.
I'm not a CNC machinist, not even a "real" machinist, just a hobbyist, but I find your videos, although at times over my head, still entertaining and fascinating.
I really appreciate that you took the time to post this information. I can imagine how hard it must be to quote something like this. To figure out how much time you would need to plan and program the part. Estimating the tools to make and which steps to take first to last. Not to mention the fixtures and components. I have had issues with solid models like that myself. The engineer doesnt know how to draw the features so he just leaves a note on the drawing and then expects you to figure it out. ( for the missing radius on the flights of the barrel. ) Charles
There is such a razors edge of profit/loss when quoting jobs like this. Even if you do win the job you always ask yourself if you should have asked for more. It's a torturous experience.
This makes me a bit sad. You've been an excellent teacher, and it seems to be coming to a conclusion, at least for this type of work. I worked for a patternmaker years ago, and when he finally sold his shop, I felt the same way. Anyway, it was time, and that's the way things go. I'll certainly keep watching whatever you can share. Thanks for everything!
I appreciate you letting the engineers of the world know how the little extra surfaces they sometimes leave behind can cause real headaches for software downstream. We have one customer whose engineering department has a horrible track record of such errors. It really eats up time trying to manipulate our software to get a clean tool path on surfaces when working on anything with complex features. Great video. Thanks for taking the time.
We will keep watching. Whatever you upload , I’m sure , will be very entertaining and also informative. I am a CNC machinist as well. Not nearly as advanced. Still sort of new. In my 4th year and loving every minute.
Once again, making amazing parts from solid. Thank you for sharing your work. Reminds me of a soft serve ice cream auger, only on steroids!
Thank you so much for the time you took to make this video and share your experience and knowledge about your job. It’s really a gift for someone like me who wants to learn. Take care and have a great end of the year
You're an angel for fixing their CAD model for them. I send anything like that back... I'll make simple edits, but nothing like that.
As ever, thank you for sharing your work and your wisdom 🙂
I love it when engineers are too lazy to finish or clean up a model. “Yea, just add the radius on that helical intersection, you don’t mind??”
Thank you for all that you give us. Any content you can provide is great !
You're on another level. I appreciate what you can share.
I always appreciate your deep dive videos and as another lonely Esprit user that's plenty CAM detail you've shown. Great planning, I probably would have done much the same - who knows if there is another batch and different heat of those maybe that 50 thou and jack would be needed.
Peter, you always amaze me. Excellent work.
Thanks Peter. Happy new year and good luck!
As always, love seeing how you solve problems machining these complex parts - thanks for sharing!
YES, THANKS, WE ARE INTERESTED. HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR FROM DENMARK.
Nice work. You are a hell of a machinist.
Glad to have you back. I've learned a ton of techniques and concepts from your videos and have really enjoyed the type of work you do.
A fascinating video as always Peter thanks for taking the time to make it. Have a great new year.
this was a very important video for most of us viewers because speaking for myself, I didn't totally understand what was going on during the machining of the part. It also showed us how much more difficult it was to anticipate and plan for potential problems. I think this video along with the machining would be a great teaching aid for both advanced machining and mechanical engineering students. In fact most of your complicated jobs could be used to teach manufacturing engineering! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the insight into modeling parts versus delivering usable content to the machinist in your life.
You are an artist! Thank you for the set screw explanation!
I always enjoy your videos Peter your knowledge is amazing. Please keep making videos!!!
I did wonder why you didn't turn the OD of the spirals. Thanks for the video, and thanks for the update!
Because they aren’t round. So the couldn’t be done that way.
Good stuff! Thanks for posting the explanation of your planning and thought process.
Keep up the great work can't wait to see what's next🏆
Wow that (silent) bar is worth its wieght in gold!! Haha. The fact you can automatically change 26inch long tools in that machine is crazy!! (I can only do 19.25" in our Cincinnati horizontal) 😊 GREAT JOB!!! BEAUTIFUL PART!!! 😊😊
It won’t change that long of tool. It is also limited to a 19.5” long tool in the changer. I have to manually mount a tool that long.
Thank ou for the commentary Peter. I am general public viewer but I enjoyed every video you ever made.
Great video 👍 Sure designer's of these part's watch and hopefully learn how to better design their part's.
I don't think they will, but we can hope.
Fascinating - as always. I hope that you can find a way to continue making videos wherever you are. Best wishes for 2024.
Thank you sir, your content has surely helped me in my CNC work! Have a great New Year!
Peter, a well deserved retirement is starting to take form . I'm really happy for that. Probably you'll make more content , even from Mexico , but it's not wrong to enjoy a little peace .
These videos are a gift to machinist around the world.
I'm just a bit sad that i've never seen an apprentice .
ps.: as i told you some years ago , i would love to come work for you - of course this is just fantasy .
Thanks for the update and happy new year.
I am so surprised the part did not spring when u cut the tabs. Whew! Wrap milling with Esprit is pretty amazing it works very well on a straight 4 axis machine if you have a good model (native to your software if u are lucky) to get the chain features / free form features from. The drawing notation to "machine from solid model" is pure laziness, then just add crappy solid model from the customer to top it off. Great job Peter very impressive.
AMAZING!
I'm a machinist myself and use esprit TNG to program different kind of machines.
I've watched almost every video You made and everytime learned something new!
THANK YOU!
Great job Peter, looking forward to your camera housing design for your DJI.
Thanks Peter. Good luck at being an employee. Hope the hotel in Mexico is going well.
I appreciate you taking the time to make this breakdown. Fortunately I have a pretty good relationship with our engineers and I can push back some on their designs. It really helps when you know what a feature’s purpose is so you can know how seriously to treat it. I feel like we might be in the same boat retirement wise, I’m pretty burned out but there is practically no one with experience available who can take over the shop when I leave so I’d be really hurting the company if I went. I think a lot of machinists approaching retirement are in this boat. I already have a garage shop set up for my post retirement.
Good approach as always remaining vigilant, happy new year
Thanks for sharing. Happy Christmas 🎉
I'm so happy he's back
You're an amazing specialist
Once again a thoroughly informative video with some beautifully machined parts. Happy and Healthy New Year to you and yours.
good video Peter..thanks for your time
For me, this would be a "white knuckle" experience! My hat is off to you!! You have to wonder if the square hole is really needed. The sharp inside corners will introduce stress corners, and it increases the cost of the part. I would love to know how that feature is used.
What ever you wind up doing, it has been an absolute pleasure to watch all your videos. I know you did a "getting started" video early on but it would be fascinating to hear a longer more detailed story of your machining career. I would love to hear about when you worked for that NASA contractor.
Great job!!
Interesting part Peter.
thx 4 showing ... really nice
It's obvious that it is some sort of pump. Not sure why they are so secretive. I learned a long time ago, if you think of it, a bunch of other people have as well. Not sure you should have sold your entire shop to this company but you have to live with that choice.
You are worth what you are getting paid and even more.
What machinist...
vooooo great video and so much detailed video thank for video ..... upload more and more ...thanks
Un saludo desde León Gto . México aquí te esperamos con los brazos abiertos .toda tu experiencia y humildad hacen de tu trabajo el mejor cotizado.no tienes que preocuparse por jale y materia prima trae la Mazack. Hasta puedes dar clases . saludos aveces la burocracia en el trabajo hace que tomes decisiones difíciles.
Thank you so much for your videos. It does not matter what kind of detail it is, what it is called and where it is used. What matters is how you made it, what kind of equipment and tools you used.
Amazing work 😮
Great work.... please do more videos..
Здравствуйте.Нравятся ваши видео. Желаю крепкого здоровья и благополучия в Новом Году!!!
Happy New Year
Thanks Peter
I am a hard man to impress but you impress me very much Peter
Great works share more videos ❤
The parts are Bells for a Japanese Shrine, they only want the best! Peter your knowledge and approach to problems will be missed.
Always grateful for the videos,Any update on villa
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I’ve personally found psoas muscle stretches to help immensely with my low back pain. Just thought I’d throw my 2¢ in.
They look like auger mixer blades.
its a part that we make from the print 😉and its the print that decides if we just made scrap
Personally, I'd love seeing you make videos in any hobby. Get into hydroponics? Hell yeah. Slot car racing? Lemme see whatchu got. Minecraft let's play? Instant subscribe.
Thanks ❤️✌️
Would love to see the programming side of the CAM that you mentioned you should leave out. A full CAM overview on this part would be really insightful for some of us who program B axis mill turns. There are a million different ways to skin the same cat so to speak when programming mill turns.
Hi Peter now we know why I have not seen to many videos always a problem when working for someone anyway look forward to perhaps some videos from the home shop and your move to Mexico.
.. sehr interessante Arbeit 👏🏻👏🏻, CzechTrade ✋
them big spiral flutes probably act as sort of a set of gussets..making it more rigid?. stopping any distortion?.
Peter I don’t run cnc or cad but could watch you work all day. Thanks for sharing, very interesting.
PS did you ever do anything with the little anvel you talked about doing a giveaway with.
I love Mazaks. What kind do you have sir ? Also great work and super cool video. Your highly intelligent
I wish Titan could get you a new machine. Titan has cool showpice cnc videos but not real videos like this
Nice video Edge, keep it up. I used to live in Htown my parents and brothers still live there. Great video
I'm guessing you're going to put a rapidly spinning glass in front of the camera lens
👏👏👏👍
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With that set screw, could you just make a pin that fits the tap drill diameter of the threaded hole? So that the pin bears against the cylindrical ID of the threads?
Yes that could work. But there would still have to be a way to hold them in. And get them in and out.
Hi Peter, how will you feel working with lesser capable machines in your garage. You're a god with that Integrex. Im thinking you need something with similar capabilities, but maybe not that big. Love the videos. I feel restrained working with my VF2, but at the same time it forces me to be creative.
Peter, did you notice any variation in the bore diameter just after the transition from the aluminum spacer to this stainless? I'm curious if it acted like an interrupted cut and caused the amount of deflection to vary it a little bit.
At the tolerances I was dealing with where (+-.005”). I wasn’t to concerned with this. I also took many spring passes with the bar. The tool wasn’t cutting into the aluminum spacer. It was below the surface of the bore. So I wasn’t measuring it to .0001”. At those tolerances it may show up. I didn’t check it that close.
Peter, do you adjust your machine's parameters frequently? Running Mazak's a lot of people have trouble with that- mostly having to change parameters because the experience barrier alarms / alarms related to travel limits. Also have you ever done an update on the PLC? would be great to see a video on those subjects.Adjusting parameters is an art and requires serious care and knowledge but it is very interesting when you can sort of trick the machine into doing certain things to make the machine perform in certain way. Thought you might have good perspective and knowledge on that. Cheers and happy new year!
If you run Mazatrol programs you will be adjusting parameters continually. But running g-code (what Mazak calls eia programs) you don’t need to adjust parameters. So because I run g-code programs I don’t ever adjust parameters and I disable safety barriers because the simulation in my cam software is so good with collision detection I don’t use them.
Thank you for the information. Yes- I avoid using Mazatrol as much as possible- it can work well for some very simple part features but have found it quite frustrating in terms of how many alarms it throws even when doing something more straightforward. Even though TOOL DATA menu is mostly meant for Mazatrol, I still use it for EIA for tool management. Esprit has great simulation. Mostly use Mastercam but would like to switch for that reason. Really great to see this video with some Esprit tool paths, would love to see more of that content if you are able to document your programming in future videos.@@EdgePrecision
I'd someone asked why you did what you did they have no business making comments this is straight up engineering
Great video Peter, did you have the post professor supplied by the Cam software or you had to do it yourself?
The Esprit people make the post for your specific machine and machine model for the simulation. Both have to work together to process code with Esprit TNG. There is really no way to make your own with Esprit TNG. With the older Esprit you could edit your own but you don’t have as accurate simulation.
Did they buy the Integrex too? Did you ever get the chip conveyor fixed?
All my machines.
How has Centerline benefited from you doing these videos? Was there a dispute that the videos were able to resolve? Did the videos bring them new business? I always got the impression that you were walking on eggshells to record your work. Reminds me of Abom79 back in the days before he went to work for himself.
I appreciate you sharing this with us. I was pretty bored watching the last video, but to see this puts it all into perspective and makes it interesting for me.
OH 1 question with a 5 axis machine did the feed rates get converted to inverse time feed for the wrap operations? I have never ran a 5 axis. Thanks.
The cam software must calculate the feed based on the rotary axis feed. When inputting the feed it is in, inches per minute in my case. By it changes it to degrees per minute when rotating the rotary axis. The linear axis’s are limited by the rotary axis speed to make the end point of the move. If that makes sense. So the rotary axis controls the feed. Unless your machine has very fast rotary axis’s that could keep up with the linar axis’s. On a wrapped cut in the cycle you enter a diameter so it can calculate this. On videos you will see when the tool path is close to the center of rotation the rotary axis will feed/rotate very fast. But on this machine the C axis isn’t real fast so in general it limits the feed.
I don't know what that part is supposed to be for, but it looks like the flutes may be to clear material away from where the square hole is.
Or maybe to draw material in to where the square hole is? Lol
Wow , great video , very nice part ! Roughly how much can 4parts like that cost ?
Sorry I didn’t quote this job. So I don’t know anything about the price of these parts. But in general I don’t like to talk about the price of jobs I’m doing for other people.
yeah no problem .. But in general i am guessing those kind of parts needs to be worth thousands of dollars ..
@@cusinko24 Yes I would say. Or even more.