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[rcpilot82]

Here is my latest project. It's a matchless juka with major modifications. I am still waiting on the weight comparison because I gave the first one to my buddy. We are working on a new milling pattern that will look better and be lighter, I should be cutting that one by this weekend. this current program was over 7000 lines of code from start to finish with several tool changes.Well worth it IMO!

[McFueler]

Great looking foamy looks light ! I use the same control program on my home made router works great ! Scaling is easy on it just put in the scaling number right next to the axis on the DRO, it will also take the G50 and G51 codes so you can do scaling inside the program so if you wanted to make your foamy half that size all you have to do is put .5 in for scaling on all your axis and run the program you already have, I really like that program, I had Desk NC before and changed to this one and it is much better !!!!

[flynz4me]

Wow that sounds really convenient. Wish I knew Mastercam better to know if it had that function. Maybe someone could shed some light for me??

[rcpilot82]

flynz4me, The program McFueler is referring to is called Mach 3. It is a control program that takes g-code and translates it into step and direction pulses to essentally "drive" the machine. if you have a commercial cnc then you have a built in control (this is where all the buttons softkeys, mpg ect. are) and you should consult your manual for its capabilities. Yes you can scale in mastercam, I have not had a need for it yet so i cant give you more in depth information than that. Check out www.cnczone.com they may have a better answer for you.

[flynz4me]

Awesome, thanks a bunch.

[McFueler]

Yes I was talking about when you are cutting a part you can scale with Mach 3 so you don't have to redraw your model or redo the tool path the controler will run the tool path you already have and scale it for you. if you was to scale say the Z axis with a neg. 1 it would cut a female insted of a male part, now i'm talking about 3D cutting.

[McFueler]

Here at work I have a A Trump CNC bed mill with a Cetrtod M400 controler and it has scaling turned on in the software along with digtizing the mill has a X travel of 42 inches Y 22 inches and Z 24 inches, I like this mill !!!!

[Al Lewis]

	Quote: Originally Posted by flynz4me
	Wow that sounds really convenient. Wish I knew Mastercam better to know if it had that function. Maybe someone could shed some light for me??

Scaling in MCAM 9 is easy as pie. TRANSFORM, SCALE, ALL, ENTITIES, ORIGIN, ENTER SCALE FACTOR HIT ENTER

[RicardoTJ]

What a nice Tread!
I'm a CNC programer in 4axis CNC Haas machine centers and we got a 3500 watts laser machine also here (work) .

I'm using Mastercam 9,X Metametion, diamonsoft for the laser and solidworks and autocad for drawing purposes.

If you need some kind of conversion of almost any kind of cad file. I can for sure give you a hand.

I will try to post some laser cuts projects that I have been doing.

REgards !!!

[flynz4me]

It amazes me how many CAD programs are out there!!! Wow, blew my mind today...

[RicardoTJ]

Here's some of the stuff...

An engine box for my fliton extra
A stick plane made of .040 stailess steel
A servo tray for my throttle servo

[rcpilot82]

looks good Ricardo